vintage tobacciana?

[KittyT]

I love that some of you have started posting pictures of yours! There are so many fascinating and cool designs out there and I love seeing them.

 

[Cricket]

These boxes are all very lovely. I could spend all day looking at the different styles that were used to serve them. But really, this thread makes me want one very bad! I quit smoking about over a year ago. and I still crave them. Ahh..I will just keep looking and dreaming for now.

 

[bobalooba]

Not sure what you'd call it but

I have a neat cigarette popper-outer doodad that I got for eight dollars at an estate sale.
It looks like a mini-bookcase and you wind it up, push the button and music plays and a little dog pops up with a cigarette then goes back down.

I don't smoke but I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread

 

[Ethan Bentley]

I have a neat cigarette popper-outer doodad that I got for eight dollars at an estate sale.
It looks like a mini-bookcase and you wind it up, push the button and music plays and a little dog pops up with a cigarette then goes back down.

It's unfortunate though because it's for small cigarettes and I smoke camel
99's so I have it stocked with standard ones for when I run out.

That sounds like a great contraption. I wanted to stock my box with camels but again, they were too big. I now I use cigarillos instead.
If there's any chance of getting a picture up of your dispenser, I, for one, would really like to see it.

Best regards, Ethan

 

[CigarMan]

I've seen a few of these on ebay the last couple of days.

 

[carouselvic]

Advertising Sign circa 1900

From my old home town

 

[Nick D]

This is outstanding. If I smoked cigarettes I would look high and low for one of these. As I don't, I can't think of anything else I'd use it for

One day I'd like a desk match safe and lighter like in 30s and 40s movies, for my pipe.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I'll have to take a photograph, but I have a great old Mail Pouch Tobacco Thermometer that was in the basement of an old pharmacy we bought a few years back.

 

[carouselvic]

I love Mail Pouch Tobacco graphics. Do you remember the barn art?

 

[scotrace]

I really wish the market for those Ronson Touch-Tip lighters would get satisfied enough to stop bringing such obscene prices!!!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I love Mail Pouch Tobacco graphics. Do you remember the barn art?

I LOVE the barn art! We had an old barn from 1895 at the farm where I grew up, and I always wanted to paint a mail pouch sign on the side or I thought it would be cool on the silo too, I tried to talk my dad into it, or said I'd settle for on the granary. But, no dice. But rest assured, I will buy my own farm someday, and I will do up a nice Mail Pouch tribute on my barn, since there isn't any originals in the area.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=230342585927

This has now finished but I did think it was rather attractive.

 

[CigarMan]

Picked this up on ebay the other day. When I saw Gene's, I had been looking for one ever since. Was lucky enough to get one. Unfortunate thing is the cigarettes I like (Dunhill Fine Cuts) don't fit on the two lower racks, but I'm sure I can find some replacements. Good thing is they do fit on the lid rack, so variety is good I suppose. Now to find a matching table lighter.

 

[Tomasso]

I pictured this as a watch fob.

Vintage (c1923) Asprey Match Holder.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=330323181168

 

[Ethan Bentley]

I pictured this as a watch fob.

Vintage (c1923) Asprey Match Holder.

I agree, it'll look great on a Double Albert.

 

[carouselvic]

Match Holders

The tan one circa 1890, blue one age unknown.

 

[Teabag1927]

Picked this up on ebay the other day. When I saw Gene's, I had been looking for one ever since. Was lucky enough to get one. Unfortunate thing is the cigarettes I like (Dunhill Fine Cuts) don't fit on the two lower racks, but I'm sure I can find some replacements. Good thing is they do fit on the lid rack, so variety is good I suppose. Now to find a matching table lighter.

Oh...my...goodness....

Iv'e never seen anything like it.

I take it these aren't very common to find on ebay, or inexpensive. I want one !

 

[Mid-fogey]

Wow...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=230342585927

This has now finished but I did think it was rather attractive.

...I've got the exact twin of this lighter. I use it often to light my pipe. It was engraved in Japan in the early 1950s. My mom bought a sterling silver blank and a Japanese carver did the rest. Mine has my Dad's initials in the rectangular blank spot on the top.

 

[Warbaby]

This art nouveau silver cigarette case is a recent find:

 

[Ethan Bentley]

A fine specimen indeed. Rather distinct.