I see a  trinket/cigarette box on eBay very like the cigarette box on the coffee table on I Love Lucy – it is chalkware by Borghese – the screen grab above is from Lucy misses the Mertzes. We cannot tell the color of the  box from the b/w episodes, but we do have a clue from a color movie clip taken by a member of the audience in an early episode and the box appears to be a light color perhaps similar to the box below.