Smoking & Tobacco Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II United States Army Air Forces C-1 survival vest waterproof match safe with integral compass in brown Bakelite. The piece is by Taylor and would be great for display with your C-1 survival vest (compass does not...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful Wright Field Airbase copper ashtray from World War II. Now the location of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field was originally built during World War I and named for aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War I engraved "trench art" match safe and dog tags originally belonging to a 95th Aero Squadron member, Thomas C. Rice. The match safe reads "Thomas C. Rice 95th Aero Squadron AEF-France" on one side; the other side has...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s match safe by Marble's of Gladstone, Michigan. The safe is cylindrical with a waterproof design and textured striking surfaces on both sides. To open, twist the body of the safe clockwise, like a lipstick case, keeping the...

ARTIFACT: This is a cigar/cigarette ashtray from the Coral Island Hotel in Bermuda. The hotel was formerly the Frascati and was later torn down to make way for condominiums. The ashtray is from the 1950s and is made by Bauscher Weiden. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a Frank Jones Ale advertising pipe holder from the 1890s. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The holder reads COMPLIMENTS OF FRANK JONES...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful and near mint advertising match safe for Hanley's Peerless Ale of the James Hanley Brewery Company of Providence, Rhode Island. This safe dates form the pre-Prohibition era (circa 1904) and is maker marked. It is in...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful circa 1895 match holder/striker advertising T,B, Hall & Company Export Bottlers of Ale & Stout of Liverpool, England. The holder is made by Wedekind & Company of London in a heavy porcelain with a largely pebbly texture. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a Chance Vought Aircraft Company cigarette pack holder/protector from World War II. Chance Vought was a New York company that changed its name to Chance Vought five years after its 1917 birth as the Lewis and Vought Company. Chance...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II cigar ashtray fashioned from piston made by Wright Aircraft Engines. The piston is well suited to its repurposed form: it has thick walled sides, depressions large enough for a stogie and a grated interior bottom...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War II Zippo lighter with the United States Navy WAVES anchor and propeller insignia applied upon the front. The WAVES, or the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, were the first women to serve in the army as a...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1973 lighter for the United States Navy ship USS Ranger CVA-61, presented by the Commanding Officer. Launched during the Cold War on September 29, 1956, Ranger was the first supercarrier to have angled decks from her inception. 1973,...