Smoking & Tobacco Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1988 Swedish United Nation Zippo lighter. UNIFIL SWEDLOG. VINTAGE: Circa 1988. SIZE: About 1-1/4" in width by 2-1/4" in height and about 7/16" in depth. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Chrome plated brass with black, white, yellow red...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous period Napoleonic snuff box made of burl wood and tortoise shell. The box is a beautiful reddish-brown with a curved lip and the Napoleonic coat of arms in relief at its center. The interior is beautifully lined with tortoise...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1954 full-size Wellington lighter for the United States Army 8042nd AU at Camp Drake, Japan. The front of the lighter has a medallion of a mountain peak enameled in red, white and blue and CAMP DRAKE REPLACEMENT DEPOT is...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s Penguin lighter for the United States Navy USS Carbonero SS-33The front of the lighter has a great enameled medallion showing a fish wielding two missiles and the reverse has a brass dolphins insignia...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s Konwal lighter for the 13th United States Air Force. The front of the lighter has an enameled medallion showing a winged star beneath the number 13. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/16" height and 1-1/2"...

ARTIFACT: This is a great late 1960s promotional lighter by Penguin for Flying Tigers Airlines. Flying Tigers Airlines, originally the Flying Tiger Line, began in 1945 as the first commercial air cargo company in the US and later became military charter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s Price Associates lighter for the Raytheon Missile Systems Division. The company's oval logo is engraved and painted in red on the front of the lighter. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and 1-1/4"...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s Scorpio lighter for United States Navy divers. The front of the lighter has a brass emblem of a diver helmet buoyed up by two game seahorses. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: Approximately 2-5/16" height and 1-1/2" width and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s Crest-Craft lighter for the United States Air Force Security Service, which operated from 1948 to 1979 as an intelligence branch. The front of the lighter has an enameled USAFSS emblem, upon which is displayed a globe, a...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s Konwal erotic novelty lighter for the United States Navy. The front of the lighter reads MEMORY OF OKINAWA and shows a robed woman admiring a bird. The reverse of the lighter shows a disrobed woman smelling a flower...