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What is a cigarette box called?
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A cigarette box is called a cigarette case. Its purpose is to keep cigarettes readily accessible while protecting them from moisture and breakage. Today, people also use cigarette cases to store personal belongings like keys, credit cards and business cards. Shop a collection of vintage cigarette cases on 1stDibs.
1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023
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Shop for Vintage Cigarette Box on 1stDibs
Piero Fornasetti Cigarette Box, 1960
By Fornasetti
Located in Chicago, IL
Piero Fornasetti Cigarette Box, 1960’s. Excellent original condition.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Italian Rectangular Sterling Silver Jewelry Cigarette Box
By Mario Buccellati
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This impressive Italian sterling box would work as a jewelry box, cigarette box as well as a trinket box.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rectangular gold silver cigarette box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver-gilt cigarette box with engraved floral motifs and hinged lid.
Category
20th Century European Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Materials
Silver
Cigarette Box by Carl Auböck
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hronská Breznica, Banskobystrický kraj
Brass and wooden cigarette box, designed by Carl Auböck, shows a beautiful guilloche top surface.
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Materials
Brass
Hermès - Rare Cigarette Box, XXth century
By Hermès
Located in Beaune, FR
Rare silver-plated cigarette box with a gilt-plated deer head opening.
Category
20th Century French Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Mid-Century Sterling Silver Cigarette Box, Art Deco, 1940s
Located in Queens, NY
English Mid-Century (1940s) sterling silver rectangular (cigarette) box with fluted etched design and initials: A.M.G.
Category
Vintage 1940s English Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver


