1980s Cigar Boxes and Humidors

A fabulous vintage silver plated individual cigar case, an iconic design from the late 20th century c.1980's fully marked by the famous top-notch Fre...

A elegant Dunhill France, amboyna cased cigar humidor casket, dating from the second hald of the 20th Century. The humidor has a Spanish cedar-lined interior which helps to keep the aroma and is equipped with Passatore humidification system. The humidor has a very stylish & timeless design and would make any cigar connoisseur happy. Complete with working lock and key. Condition: In really excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition. Dimensions in cm: Height 11.5 x Width 28.5 x Depth 24 Dimensions in inches: Height 4 inches x Width 11 inches x Depth 9 inches Amboyna is a type of wood which has its origins in Indonesia (the preferred veneer comes particularly from the Andaman Islands). The grain texture is one of the most seldom and exclusive on earth. The burls are often very small, which is why the sheets of veneer come in small dimensions. The colours range from deep yellowish-orange to dark red. After finishing the surface, the grain texture of amboyna wood has a depth and richness unmatched in other textured woods. Humidor is any kind of box or room with constant humidity that is used to store cigars, cigarettes, orpipe tobacco. For private use, small wooden or acrylic glass humidor boxes for a few dozen cigars are used, while cigar shops may have walk-in humidors. Humidors can be used to store other goods for which a certain level of humidity is desirable; the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team stores game balls in a large humidor at their home stadium, Coors Field, to counteract the effects of Denver's high altitude and generally low humidity. Humidors of all sizes use hygrometers to keep track of the humidity levels. Classification of humidors Walk-in humidor - most common in cigar bars or stores. One room is built as or converted to a humidor where all the cigars are stored. Cabinet humidor - usually placed on the floor as a piece of furniture. Typically holds 1000-5000 cigars. Table humidor - often quite heavy, though portable in theory, it's usually kept in one location. Capacity ranges from three hundred to a few thousand cigars. It usually comes with a polished wood exterior, marble, leather or combination of exotic elements, and glass top. Personal humidor - semi-regular cigar smokers will sometimes keep a small humidor in their homes for personal storage, special events, or aesthetic characteristics of the humidor itself . Usually contains 20-75 cigars. This may also be known as a "Desktop Humidor". Travel humidor...

Cigarette case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Size cm. 6.3 x 9.7 x 1.5 . Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s.. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni factory with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and big reinforcements suitable to support several firings of enamelling at great fire at about 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier catalogue...

Beautiful decorative box with blue glass top and silver plated base.  

Hallmarked in London in 1983 by Padgett & Braham Ltd., and retailed by Mappin & Webb, this very handsome, and large, Sterling Silver Cig...

A Dunhill France, coromandel and boxwood strung cased cigar humidor, together with a sterling silver cigar cutter, dating from the second hald of t...

A hand made and crafted Hermes humidor or Cigar Box showing all the expressions, signs of detailing and fine craftsmanship we have come to expect from o...

Beautiful domed box hand crafted made of wood, fine warm patina overall and opening to an large interior housing, hinged dome lids and retaining its original functioning lock mechani...

Large fine quality handmade wood-lined silver box with gilded sections, in the form of a traditional leather-bound book. The body is engraved to resemble the pages and the spine to resemble the traditional embossed mouldings of an antique leather book...

Black embossed crocodile leather cigar humidor. Cedar wood lining and brass hinges.

A fabulous vintage silver plated individual cigar case, an iconic design from the late 20th century circa 1980s fully marked by the famous top-notch ...

A beautiful example of a marble specimen box or humidor by Maitland Smith. Each specimen is surrounded by inlaid brass. The case is a tessellated stone wi...