Cigar and Smoking Signs

About Vintage Cigar and Smoking Signs

Many brands have come and gone in the tobacco business (cigarette, cigar, and lighter companies), but their signs live on. Look long enough and you'll see vintage signs for Marlboro, Kool, Red Man, Bugler, Mail Pouch, Winston, Dunhill, Copenhagen, Camel, Mayo's, Mark Twain, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike, Kent, Prince Albert, Napoleon, Phillies, Old Judge, Top, Old Gold, Viceroy, Ronson, Zippo, Beech Nut and more.


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Interviews & Articles

An Interview with Cigar Memorabilia and Ephemera Collector Tony Hyman

Tony Hyman has been collecting cigar boxes since he was 12. The National Cigar Museum has been open for 10 to 12 … [more]

An Interview with Vintage Cigarette Lighter Collector Urban Cummings

At the very beginning, my interest in lighters was about the mechanism. I had my first lighter when I was 14. I sav… [more]

An Interview With Porcelain Advertising Sign Collector Michael Bruner

I liked to collect things even as a child. Things that didn’t cost anything, like different colors of stones. The… [more]

An Interview With Antique Advertising and Porcelain Enamel Sign Collector Alex Renshaw

How did I get started collecting advertising antiques? My dad was a lecturer and tutor in graphics and art from the… [more]

Guest Column: Collecting Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Cigarette lighter collecting is a hobby that never gets boring. Just by browsing eBay auctions for ten minutes, for… [more]

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Hyman's National Cigar Museum

Hyman's National Cigar Museum

A treasure trove of information about cigars and cigar ephemera, this site is a must-see for any tobacciana collect… [read review or visit site]

Advertising Antiques

Advertising Antiques

This classy looking British site features hundreds of high resolution photos of antique porcelain pre-war (enamel) … [read review or visit site]

Cigar Band Museum

Cigar Band Museum

Puff on this... over 1,000 cigar bands from the 1890s through 1920s, organized into themed galleries such as Portra… [read review or visit site]

Truth in Advertising

Truth in Advertising

This gallery of cigarette magazine advertising from the 1940s and 50s contains no surgeon general's warning, just p… [read review or visit site]

Match World

Match World

This ambitious site showcases the 20,000-item Rankei Library matchbook collection, owned by the Japan Match Manufac… [read review or visit site]

Historical Marker Database

Historical Marker Database

If you're the type who pulls over when you see a 'historic marker ahead' sign, you'll love this site. Orchestrated … [read review or visit site]

Kensitas Silk Flowers

Kensitas Silk Flowers

Don Wearmouth and his wife showcase the 230 beautiful silk designs that were distributed free with Kensitas cigaret… [read review or visit site]

Matchbox Labels

Matchbox Labels

Jane McDevitt's huge Flickr photoset of matchbox labels, primarily Eastern European, from the 1950s and 60s. These … [read review or visit site]

Pittsburgh Signs Project

Pittsburgh Signs Project

This group artistic effort to catalog the signs of Pittsburgh captures many vintage signs (porcelain, neon, wood, t… [read review or visit site]

Falvo Collectables Gallery

Falvo Collectables Gallery

Ralph and Carol Falvo's excellent collection of automobiles, petroliana, jukeboxes, soda, and general store items. … [read review or visit site]

Jersey Vintage Ford Collectibles

Jersey Vintage Ford Collectibles

Sam Baker's excellent collection of vintage Ford porcelain and neon signs and related memorabilia from the 1920s an… [read review or visit site]

Matchbook Museum

Matchbook Museum

James Lileks' gallery of 250 matchbooks from coffee shops, hotels, motels, bars, banks, restaurants and more. Lilek… [read review or visit site]

Non Sports Cards: Tobacco, Gum and Candy

Non Sports Cards: Tobacco, Gum and Candy

Tom Boblitt moderates this extremely deep, collaborative site dedicated to non-sports cards (tobacco, gum and candy… [read review or visit site]

Lamarde

Lamarde

This blog, entirely in Spanish, is an amazingly comprehensive and varied tribute to tobacco and cigarette advertisi… [read review or visit site]


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1900's R.g. Sullivan's Porcelain Cigar Tobacco Sign $122.50 Ends Tuesday 4 bids 19 watchers
Vintage Kool Cigarettes Kentucky Derby Horse Race Sign $74.32 Ends Friday 8 bids 24 watchers
Vintage White Label Cigar Embossed Tin Advertising Sign$70.99 Ends Tuesday 5 bids 16 watchers
Vintage "model" Smoking Tobacco Sign$66.00 Ends Tuesday 7 bids 16 watchers
1905 Tin Lithograph "henrietta" Cigars Advertising Sign$56.56 Ends Monday 6 bids 16 watchers
Star Tobacco Porcelain Sign$50.00 Ends Saturday 1 bid 6 watchers
1920's Old Gold Cigarettes Baseball Advertising Sign$50.00 Ends Monday 5 bids 38 watchers
Mail Pouch Tobacco Thermometer Sign 38"x8" $49.99 Ends Sunday 1 bid 1 watcher
Old Tobacco Snuff Tin Dispenser Display Copenhagen Sign$49.99 Ends Thursday 1 bid 7 watchers
Porcelain Piedmont Cigarette Sign$42.01 Ends in 4 hours 4 bids 13 watchers
1946 Mail Pouch Chew Tobacco Old Tin Thermometer Sign$40.14 Ends Sunday 8 bids 24 watchers
1940's Vintage Old Gold Cigarette Graphic Tin Sign$36.00 Ends Sunday 7 bids 24 watchers
Old Tin Lithographed Fame & Fortune Cigar Sign Ak Walch$27.00 Ends Tuesday 3 bids 10 watchers
Vintage Tin Newport Cigarettes Sign Ca.1960 Nos Nice$24.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 2 watchers
Old Nice 1950's Kool Cigarette Willie Penguin Tin Sign$23.00 Ends Sunday 3 bids 26 watchers
Nice ~ 1940's Vintage Regalos Cigar Metal Flange Sign$22.50 Ends Sunday 8 bids 13 watchers
1950s L&m Cigarettes Door Push Sign Tobacco$21.02 Ends Thursday 6 bids 19 watchers
1900s Pack-shaped Tin Beech-nut Tobacco Sign!$20.50 Ends Sunday 4 bids 11 watchers
Cigarette Old Gold Advertising Sign/clock Original$20.49 Ends Tuesday 2 bids 30 watchers
"lucky Strike Cigarettes" Metal Sign$20.00 Ends Sunday 1 bid 2 watchers
Chesterfield And Torch Light Tobacco Heavy Paper Signs$19.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 5 watchers
1930's Vintage Rooster Snuff Tobacco Tin Door Push Sign$17.25 Ends Sunday 5 bids 19 watchers
Neat Vintage Cardboard Mailpouch Tobacco Sign$15.50 Ends in 13 hours 2 bids
50s Red Man Indian Chewing Tobacco Embossed Tin Sign!$15.00 Ends Sunday 2 bids 5 watchers
* Kodiak Smokeless Chewing Tobacco Old Tin Ad Sign Nice$14.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 1 watcher
1950s Cavalier Cigarettes Metal Advertising Sign #1$12.49 Ends in 11 hours 2 bids 11 watchers
Vintage Porcelain No Smoking Sign$10.75 Ends Thursday 4 bids 4 watchers
Old Winston Cigarettes Advertising Sign/thermometer$10.49 Ends in 11 hours 2 bids 9 watchers
London Life Cigarettes Porcelain Sign$9.99 Ends Sunday 1 bid 10 watchers
Vintage L&m Miracle Tip Tobacco Painted Tin Sign 4.25x9$9.99 Ends Thursday 1 bid 15 watchers
Beautiful Rare Original Camel Rj Reynolds Tobacco Sign$9.99 Ends in 11 hours 1 bid 2 watchers
Vintage Advertising Tin Store Sign Viceroy Cigarettes$9.99 Ends Saturday 1 bid 8 watchers
Copenhagen Metal Advertising Sign Tobacco$9.99 Ends Thursday 1 bid 8 watchers
Golden Grain Smoking Tobacco,cowgirl Sign,1930's$9.99 Ends Friday 1 bid 5 watchers
Lovely Vintage Cuban Cousin Cigar Advertising Sign $9.95 Ends Saturday 1 bid 13 watchers
Vibrant Metal Marlboro Cigarette 23" X 15 Sign ~ 1994 $9.50 Ends Thursday 1 bid 3 watchers
Salem Cigarette Advertising Thermometer Sign$7.99 Ends Thursday 1 bid 7 watchers
Wonderful Newport Cigarettes Large Metal Sign..$7.50 Ends in 13 hours 2 bids 2 watchers
Old Judge Tobacco Bulldog Tin Sign 0379$7.18 Ends Thursday 1 bid
Chesterfield Cigarette Small Very Old Metal Sign$5.50 Ends Tuesday 2 bids 3 watchers
Vintage Stull Seed Corn Colonel W/ Cigarette Tin Sign $5.50 Ends Sunday 3 bids 21 watchers
Beech-nut Tobacco Porcelain- Baked Enamel Metal Sign$5.00 Ends in 9 hours 1 bid 12 watchers
Vtg Chesterfield Cigarettes Advertising Sign Tobacco$4.99 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 6 watchers
Collinwood Ohio Tom Keene 5 Cent Cigar Sign Postcard$2.99 Ends in 12 hours 1 bid 1 watcher
Porcelain/steel Velvet Tobacco Tin Advertising Sign Nr$0.99 Ends Saturday 1 bid 16 watchers
Vintage Metal Sign Kool Cigarettes Smoking$0.99 Ends Saturday 1 bid 20 watchers

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