Smoking & Tobacco Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Dunhill pipe tamper/tool in stainless steel and black vulcanite plastic from the 1950s. The tool screws out of the vulcanite casing, which has a faux wood grain finish...

ARTIFACT: This is a Dunhill pipe tamper/tool in brass, stainless steel and black vulcanite from the 1950s. The tool screws out of the vulcanite casing, and comes in its original box. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a great Deco glass ashtray from the 1940s advertising Hap Miller's Restaurant in York, Pennsylvania, just east of Route 30. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s. SIZE: Approximately 15/16" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a box of twenty-four individual books of Zig Zag brand cigarette rolling papers. They are "ashless, tasteless" and "easy to roll" according to the carton, and were made by...

ARTIFACT: This is a vintage 1930s Turmac (Turkish-Macedonian) Tobacco Company cigarette tin. The fabulously earth-tone colored tin held 25 "orange" cigarettes, and carries an ornately framed message...

ARTIFACT: This is a large and fantastic "Sultan's Head" hookah pipe bowl from the Victorian era. The head is carved of meerschaum and sits atop a brass receptacle from which four spigots protrude...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1900 advertising cigar container for the Havana-American Company of New York City. This piece dates from the era of the second, short-lived incarnation of the company...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old cast iron tobacco cutter patented in 1875: the "Champion Knife Improved". The blade is housed in a semi-circular frame and attached to a lever. There are some faded...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1877 dated certificate given by the IRS to George W. MacNeil of Loudon, New Hampshire so that he could lawfully sell manufactured tobacco. There would have been a "stub for...

ARTIFACT: This is an early Vietnam War era Marksman lighter for the United States Navy USS Shelton destroyer (DD-790), a ship named for an Ensign Shelton who died in the Battle of Midway. The front...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1960s WARRIOR CONSTRUCTORS advertising lighter. It is factory-engraved by Park Light. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" high, 1-1/2" wide and 1/2" deep...

ARTIFACT: This is a mid-1960s advertising lighter for Northeast Airlines. The lighter is by Park and has a white and yellow enameled NE logo. VINTAGE: Circa mid-1960s. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/16"...