$526Sale Price|52% Off
Embossed silver matchbox with players in everyday scenes and sliding lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Embossed silver matchbox with players in everyday scenes and sliding lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: German. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 55.51 grams. Dimensions: 6cm x 4cm. Cont...
Silver
Silver set comprising a saucer, tray, lighter and embossed tobacco box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver set comprising a saucer, tray, lighter and tobacco box with reliefs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Cabeça de escravo. Weight: 1348.99 grams. Dimension...
Silver
$525Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver case with oblique geometric engravings and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with oblique bands engraved with geometric figures and a hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II. Title: Weight: 105....
Silver
$735Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver cigarette case with crossed bands, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with crossed bands, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 133.05 grams. Dimensions...
Silver
$770Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver case with beveled corners, friezes and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with beveled corners, friezes surrounding the monogram card and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II Title. Wei...
Silver
$630Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver cigarette case w/ gold interior & overlapping bands w/ hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with gold interior and overlapping bands with hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Eagle Head. Weight: 113.10 grams. D...
Silver
$630Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver cigarette case with geometric figures, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with geometric figures, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 115.58 grams. Dimensions:...
Silver
$630Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver cigarette case w/ stripes along the lid surrounding a monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with grooves along the lid surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 118.69 grams. Dimension...
Silver
$595Sale Price|30% Off
Matte silver cigarette case with gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Matte silver cigarette case with gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Lisbon Eagle Head. Weight: 110.28 grams. Dimensions: 10.3x1.2cm....
Silver
$875Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver cigarette case with bands along the length and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with bands along the length and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 172.93 grams. Dimensions: ...
Silver
$1,225Sale Price|30% Off
Nickel-plated silver case with lengthwise bands, engraved openwork garlands
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Nickel plated silver cigarette case with bands along the length, engraved and openwork with wreath cutouts. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 190....
Silver
$630Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver case with beveled corners, monogram plate and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with beveled corners surrounding a monogram card and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 114.3...
Silver
$1,575Sale Price|30% Off
Nickel-plated silver case in Russian style with carriage motif, hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Nickel-plated silver cigarette case in the Russian style with a horse-drawn carriage figure and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Russian. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 94.1 ...
Silver
Silver case with fluted reliefs, floral motifs and garlands around monogram
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with fluted reliefs, floral motifs and raised garlands surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Boar's Head. Weight: 74.3...
Silver
Rectangular silver case with raised bands, monogram insert and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver cigarette case with raised longitudinal bands on the spring-loaded lid with monogram insert and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Bran...
Silver
Silver cigarette case with Belém Tower relief and spring-hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with reliefs alluding to the Belém Tower and spring-loaded hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Mark: Eagle Head. Weight: 129.98 grams. D...
Silver
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
$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
$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
$375Sale Price|65% 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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$700Sale Price|30% Off
Curved silver and gold Viagrette box, engraved and from the period of George III
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Curved silver and gold vinaigrette box, engraved, from the George III period. Metal: Silver - Gold. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 15.24 grams. Dimensions: ...
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
Rectangular silver case with lengthwise strips and spring-loaded lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver cigarette case with grooves along the length and a spring-loaded hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 169.69...
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
$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 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
$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
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.