$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver cigarette case with monogram card, gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with a monogram card and gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 150.45 grams. D...
Silver
$1,225Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver case with gold interior and onyx-trimmed clasp, hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with gold interior, onyx-trimmed clasp and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 185.63 grams. Dimens...
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
$560Sale Price|30% Off
Guilloche silver cigarette case with gold interior and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver cigarette case with gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 117.65 grams. Dimensions: 10.5x7.5cm. Co...
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
$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
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
Rectangular silver cigarette case with reliefs alluding to the Belém Tower
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver cigarette case with reliefs alluding to the Belém Tower. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 105.85 grams. Dimensions: 10.6c...
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
$513Sale Price|65% Off
Silver cigarette case w/ guilloche bands at the top, gold interior & hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with guilloche bands at the top, gold interior and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 191.83 grams. Dimensions...
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
$700Sale Price|30% Off
Silver cigarette case with plant engravings, waves on the edge and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver cigarette case with plant engravings, waves on the edge and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Brand: Auseente. Weight: 134.45 grams. Dimensions: 11.6x7...
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
$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
$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
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
$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
$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
$962Sale Price|30% Off
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: French. Brand: Boar's Head. Weight: 135.54 gra...
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.