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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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Upcoming Events
- AMCAL 2010
Apr 22–24. Roseville, CA. - Milwaukee Area Pipe Society 10th Annual Pipe Show/Swap
Jun 19. Milwaukee, WI. - 2010 Kansas City Pipe & Tobacco Show
Jun 26–27. Kansas City, MO.
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]
Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tom Boblitt moderates this extremely deep, collaborative site dedicated to non-sports cards (tobacco, gum and candy… [read review or visit site]
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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Clubs & Associations: Signs
- The Street Jewellery Society
- North American Society of Pipe Collectors
- Zippo Click Collectors Club
- Society of Tobacco Jar Collectors
- The Cigarette Pack Collectors' Association
- On The Lighter Side
- The Cigarette Packet Collectors Club of Great Britain
- The Rathkamp Matchcover Society
Other Great Reference Sites: Signs
- American Sign Museum
- Clarks Travel Center Sign Collection
- Gassigns.org
- Cigar Label Junkie
- Oilsign.com
- NYPL Digital Gallery: Tobacco Prints
- NYPL Digital Gallery: Cigarette Cards
- Oudereclame.nl
- Vintage Flames
- The Cartophilic Society of Great Britain
- Vintage-ronson.com
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Signs
- overview
- porcelain signs
- neon signs
- tin signs
- cardboard signs
- automobile signs
- farm signs
- food signs
- beer signs
- cigar & smoking signs
- gas & service signs
- travel & highway
- railroad signs
- building & paint
- soda signs (non Coke)
- Coke signs
- clothing & personal
- telephone signs
- door pushes
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Tobacciana
- overview
- tobacco tins
- tobacco jars
- tobacco cards
- match holders
- matchbooks
- cigarette lighters
- cigarette cases
- Zippo
- ashtrays
- cigar lighters
- cigar cutters
- cigar boxes
- cigar & smoking signs
- cigar store Indians
- pipes
- native American pipes
- Meerschaum pipes
- snuff boxes
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