Guilloche silver cigarette case with bands at the top
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with curved top bands and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 72.55 grams. Dimensions: 8.6cmx1.2cm....
Silver
$525Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver case with engravings, beveled corners and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with engraving, beveled corners, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 105.42 grams. D...
Silver
Brushed rectangular silver case with beveled corners and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Brushed silver cigarette case, rectangular in shape with beveled corners, gold interior and surrounding grooves. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escr...
Silver
$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Rectangular silver cigarette case with crimped bands at the top and a hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver cigarette case with crimped bands at the top and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 174.06 grams. Dimensio...
Silver
$455Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with garlands around curved monogram and silver interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with engraved wreaths surrounding a curved monogram card with a silver interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 73.72 g...
Silver
$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with herringbone bands, monogram, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with herringbone bands along the length surrounding a monogram card, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali...
Silver
$770Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with diagonal band engravings, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with engravings in diagonal bands with gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 153.76 gram...
Silver
$2,100Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with raised bands, gold holder and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with raised bands, interior gold cigarette holder and hinged lid. Metal: Silver - Gold. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escravo. Weight: 150.4...
Silver
$875Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with lengthwise bands, monogram and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with bands along the monogram card and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 158.94 grams. Dimensions: ...
Silver
$560Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with Batalha Monastery relief and gilded interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with relief alluding to the Batalha Monastery and gilded interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Mark: Eagle Head. Weight: 101.14 grams. Dimen...
Silver
$595Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with Jerónimos Monastery relief and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with relief of the Jerónimos Monastery and gold interior with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Mark: Eagle Head. Weight: 113.43 grams...
Silver
$630Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with diamond engravings on both sides and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with diamond-shaped engravings on both sides and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 137.13 grams. Di...
Silver
$717Sale Price|52% Off
Silver case with fluted lengthwise bands, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with fluted bands throughout and gold interior with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 151.88 grams. Di...
Silver
$455Sale Price|30% Off
Curved silver case with engravings around monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Curved silver cigarette case with engravings surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Chester. Weight: 61.13 grams. Dimensions: 1.5cm x 8.4cm....
Silver
$700Sale Price|30% Off
Silver cigarette case with reliefs, brushed silver lid and base trims
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with guilloche lid at the top and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Swedish. Brand: Três Coroas. Weight: 97.07 grams. Dimensions: 8cmx6.5cm. Co...
Silver
$665Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with University of Coimbra relief, monogram and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with embossed University of Coimbra with monogram card, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Mark: Eagle Head. Weight: ...
Silver
$700Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with engravings around monogram, holder inside and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with engravings surrounding a monogram card, interior with cigarette holder and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II Tit...
Silver
$700Sale Price|30% Off
Silver case with Jerónimos Monastery relief, gold interior and spring lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with reliefs alluding to the Jerónimos Monastery, with a gold interior and a spring-loaded hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Mark: Eag...
Silver
Curved silver case with alternating bands, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Curved silver cigarette case with alternating bands along the length, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 13...
Silver
$525Sale Price|30% Off
Curved silver case with engraved wreaths around monogram and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Curved silver cigarette case with engraved wreaths surrounding a monogram card and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 64.31 grams....
Silver
Rectangular silver-gilt case with guilloche trim and spring lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular gilt silver cigarette case with guilloche trim at the top and spring-loaded hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escravo. Weight: ...
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.