Antique Russian Lacquer Lined Humidor Tobacco Box Hand Painted Paper Mache 19thC
Located in Norman, OK
Antique 19th Century Russian Black Lacquer Tin Lined Humidor Tobacco Box - Paper Mache with a Hand Painted Design of Three People Sitting Down To Tea Together. Based on the Stamped M...
Tin
Antique 19th Century Indian Kutch Solid Silver Cigarette Case c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Indian Kutch solid silver cigarette case of heavy gauge, featuring intricate floral repoussé work on a matted background. The rectangular case has engraved edges...
Silver
Antique “KRAFT AL PACCA” German Shagreen Cigarette Case
Located in Beirut, LB
Black lacquered silver Cigarette case, has particularly lovely shagreen (GALUCHAT) band on the top. Stamped “Kraft Al Pacca” and “Argent” from the inside. The wonderful Galuchat m...
Silver
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Primitive American Paint Decorated Tool or Document Storage Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This antique American storage box exudes a charming rustic appeal with its hand-painted design on a sturdy wooden surface. The box dates back to the 1800s and features ample space to...
Wood, Paint
$1,710Sale Price / item|25% Off
Rare collection 5 Antique Ceramic Tobacco Jars Humidors Figural, Bernard Bloch
By Bernhard Bloch
Located in Gorssel, GE
Rare collection of 5 antique ceramic tobacco jars/humidors. 1. Hand-painted cermic tobacco jar, marked underside illegible and numbered 8100, man with cap with inscription 'Polin' ...
Ceramic
Antique German Solid Silver and Enamel Erotic Cigarette Case c. 1900
Located in London, GB
A beautiful antique German solid Silver Cigarette Case with an enamel image on the front cover. This image shows a woman gazing at three lush pink roses with her translucent gown dra...
Enamel, Silver
Antique 20thC English Art Deco Solid Silver & Lacquer Cigarette Box c.1920
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 20th Century English solid silver art deco style cigarette box. Featuring a black lacquered top and a curved body, resting on four mounted feet. Hallmarked English solid silv...
Silver
Antique Rare English Book-Shaped Sheffield Silver Humidor circa 1885
Located in New Orleans, LA
A very handsome late 19th century silver plate humidor.
Sheffield Plate
Antique Swiss Black Forest Carved Wood Bear Head Lidded Tobacco Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Of large scale, the well-delineated and intricately carved head of a dog with hat motif lid; the expressive face with glass eyes and large snout; most likely from the Black forest ar...
Walnut
Antique Imperial Russian Engraved 84 Silver Niello Tobacco Case Box Moscow 1886
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique Imperial Russian engraved silver and niello tobacco box/case, 1886, Moscow, Alexander Fuld. The case is finely engraved with engraved niello designs, the hinged lid ha...
Silver
Antique German Silver & Enamel Cigarette Case c 1900 Erotic Nude Sea Ocean
Located in London, GB
A gorgeous Antique solid Silver Cigarette Case with an Enamel Image on the front cover. This Image shows a nude woman with long brown hair surrounded by a cresting wave in the ocean....
Enamel
Antique Hand-Carved Chestnut Box in Asian Bamboo Style Inlaid with Soapstone
Located in Lisse, NL
Exclusive & fine quality hand-crafted Chinoiserie box. The diversity in techniques and materials used by craftsman around the world and over the last centuries never seizes to a...
Soapstone
$618Sale Price|34% Off
Antique Large Chinese Metal and Cinnabar Humidor Art Deco Box, circa 1920
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This rare Chinese Art Deco box is made from copper alloy. The top is decorated with hand carved black cinnabar and highlighted with a finely carved bone figure and flowers. All four ...
Copper
Rogers Smith & Co. Meriden, CT Silver Plated Humidor Box with Dog Finials 1890
Located in Litchfield, CT
Antique 19th century Rogers Smith & Co. Meriden, Connecticut silver quadruple plated humidor box with two dog finials on hinged lidded compartments. The body is beautifully decorated...
Silver Plate
$480Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Mixed Wood & Marquetry Cigar Box with Glass Insert C1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Mixed Wood & Marquetry Cigar Box with Glass Insert C1910. Measures - 9"H x 7.75"W x 7.75"D. An antique cigar tobacco box from circa 1910, crafted with mixed wood and intri...
Wood
$347Sale Price|48% Off
Antique Mahogany Serving Tray with Cuban Cigar Bands, 1920s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Unique tray framed with mahogany and glass. Decorated to its interior with Cuban cigar bands from Eden de Bances y Lopez in Habana. This type of band is pre-revolution and was design...
Brass
Antique Art Deco Italian Carved Natural Onyx Stone Large Cigar Ashtray
Located in San Diego, CA
We are offering a wonderful Art Deco Italian large hand carved onyx stone cigar ashtray. The ashtray is a statement piece. The center part is a natural inclusion bowl for the ashes. ...
Onyx
Antique 20thC Japanese Meiji Solid Silver Iris Flower Cigar Box, Zuan c.1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century Japanese Meiji period solid silver cigar box of rectangular form, double walled and finely decorated in high relief with iris flowers emerging from water a...
Silver
Antique 20th Century German Solid Silver & Cut Glass Cigar Ashtray c.1910
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century German solid silver & cut glass mounted ashtray. The plain rim applied with two cigar rests. It is easy to imagine the appeal behind these objects which wo...
Silver
TRAIN-WAGON 1900 Antique Desk Cigar Box With Wheels In Oak Wood & Bronze
Located in Miami, FL
An antique desk cigar box humidor in the shape of a train wagon. This is an amazing antique desk cigar box humidor designed to looks like a train wagon. Crafted with meticulous indu...
Brass, Bronze
Silver Plated Combination Cigar Cutter/Bud Vase by Derby, Connecticut circa 1885
Located in Incline Village, NV
This is a most unusual piece appealing to both those who collect cigar cutters, and collectors who seek out silver plated novel items. It consists of a bottom scalloped edged bowl wh...
Silver Plate
Antique English Victorian Sterling Silver Cigar Box, 1894
By Mappin & Webb, Joseph Braham
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian sterling silver cigar box, 1894. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with molded rim; top curved and engraved with word “Cigars”. Box interior cedar-lined...
Sterling Silver
Antique Russian Silver & Niello Cigar Case with Sukharev Tower
Located in New York, NY
Russian silver and niello box depicting long-lost Moscow landmark, ca 1879. Rectangular with curved corners; right-hinged with push tab. On cover is the Sukharev Tower, a ceremonial ...
Silver
Cigars were not always packaged in what we now know as the antique cigar boxes and humidors that have over time become eye-catching decorative objects as well as collector’s items.
Outside the United States, cigar boxes are said to have originated in the 1840s when a German businessman, Hermann Dietrich Upmann of H. Upmann Cigars, bought a cigar factory and opened a bank in Havana, Cuba. Upmann reportedly handed out cedar cigar boxes branded with advertising for the bank as gifts to his banking clients. In the early 1860s, after years of cigars being shipped in big crates or barrels, cigar boxes became a requirement when the United States passed a law that mandated the use of boxes for tobacco producers, which was part of a broader effort to regulate the tobacco industry and generate revenue for the war effort. Humidors, which are moisture-controlled storage boxes that allow a cigar enthusiast to store, organize and preserve a larger collection of cigars, were very popular accessories during the early 1900s onward.
As the use of cigar boxes and humidors became widespread, all kinds of options materialized over the years, with particularly vibrant editions of these decorative objects emerging during the Art Nouveau, mid-century modern and other eras. Visionary designers like Isamu Noguchi popularized the idea of tobacco accessories as art with projects such as his decorative ashtrays.
Today, not unlike antique and vintage ashtrays, cigar boxes are more than practical objects. In fact, there are many uses for an old cigar box even after the cigars are gone. They can be used as planters, tissue boxes or can support your long-delayed effort to organize your sewing and craft supplies. During the Great Depression, an emptied cigar box — perhaps a walnut Art Deco-style cigar box with inlays in bronze and hand-carved decorative geometric patterns adorning its exterior — was occasionally repurposed as a jewelry box.
Antique and vintage cigar boxes — made of wood, metal or other materials — are valuable treasures in some corners of the collecting world, and in your home, they’re exquisite desk ornaments and colorful flourishes to add to your bookcase or mantel. On 1stDibs, find a variety of antique and vintage cigar boxes and other decorative boxes today.
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