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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 years in va… [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 saved up my nickel… [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. There was somethin… [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 example, I rec… [more]
An Interview With Antique Advertising and Porcelain 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 1960s onwards,… [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Matchbook Museum
James Lileks' gallery of 400 matchbooks from coffee shops, hotels, motels, bars, banks, restaurants and more. Lilek… [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]
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]
Clubs & Associations: Signs
- North American Society of Pipe Collectors
- Zippo Click Collectors Club
- 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
Top eBay Auctions
Fatima Rare Vintage Porcelain Thermometer Barometer Fatima Cigarette Sign
Ca1900 Embossed Tin Lithograph "devlish Good" Cigars Advertising Sign
Vintage Hi Plane Tobacco Tin Sign; Large 36" Wide
Union 76 Gas Station Sign Please For Your Safety No Smoking Stop Your Motor Old
Vintage R.g. Sullivain's 7-20-4 Porcelain Cigar Sign 
Vintage Cash Value Chewing Tobacco Metal Sign With Thermometer
Vintage Metal Old Gold Tobacco Cigarette Dealer Carton Display Rack Sign Camel
1950s Vintage Kool Cigarette Willie Penguin Old Gas Station Tin Sign
Original Vintage 1950's Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco 39" Working Thermometer Sign
Antique/vtg Chesterfield Cigarettes Embossed Metal Advertising Sign/thermometer 
Nifty Neon Camel Cigarette Sign, Never Used ( See Comments Below).
Superb Original Antique Rajah Cigar Enamel Tin Sign
Red Man Chewing Tobacco Tin Adervitising Sign 
Mail Pouch Tobacco Porcelain Advertising Sign Vintage Chewing Tobaccoabelia Lhs!
Vintage 50-60s ? Metal Tin Smoke Kool Smoking Penguin Sign We Sell Cigarettes
1950s Vintage Kool Cigarette Old Country Store Door Push Tin Sign
1950s 1960s Red Man Tobacco Sign Store Sign Texaco Gulf Vintage Cigar Box Nice
Very Rare 2 Sided Flanged Cigarette Store Advertising Sign L&m & Chesterfield Ad
Ca1900 Embossed Tin Lithograph "imperial Club" Cigars Advertising Sign
Antique Canvas Chew Climax Cut Plug Tobacco Country Store Sign 59" By 24"
2 Kool Cigarette Steel Advertising Signs With Thermometer
Red Man Chewing Tobacco Thermometer / Sign Shows Indian Chief In Full Headdress
Vintage Sexy Girl Kool Cigarettes Store Advertising Display Sales Sign Poster
Beech-nut Chewing Tobacco Metal Sign
Vintage Embossed King Edward Cigars License Plate Metal Sign Texaco Tobacco
Old Original Winston Cigarettes / Nascar Racing Large Advertising Sign
Nos Unused 1948 Vintage Camel Cigarettes Old Country Store Embossed Tin Sign
Old Vintage Original Kool Cigerette Tobacco Tin Sign For Holding Matches 
Vintage Viceroy Cigarette Metal Advertising Sign
Vintage 1980 Winston Cigarette Metal Sign Featuring Outdoor Man Original
Vintage Kool Cigarette Tin Sign
Fatima Turkish Cigarette Sign Reverse Painted Glass+paper Liggett Myers Tobacco
Winston Cigarette Sign With Thermometer 1960's "look"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Superb Vintage Rajah Cigar Enamel Tin Sign
Unusual 1940s Vintage Chesterfield Cigarettes Old Country Store Tin Sign
Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn Hand Painted Mirror & Sign John Deere Tractor Rare
Phillips 66 No Smoking Sign Gasoline Service Station Man Cave Game Room Office
Vintage Kent Cigarettes Metal Sign Advertising Tobacco Tobacciana
Kodiak Snuff Tobacco Dip Tin 14" X 25 3/4"metal Sign Large Bear Eyes
Marlboro Metal Cigarette Sign Aprox. 22 Inchs Tall And 17 1/4 Inchs Wide
Harley Davidson Tin Cigarette Eagle Sign 1988 Lg Size
Vintage Dutch Masters Cigar Metal Sign 
Vintage Chesterfield Cigarettes Sign Embossed Metal
1984 Kool Cigarettes Man&harley-davidson/h-d Sportster B&w Advertising Tin Sign
Harley-davidson Cigarettes Tin Sign
Mint Neat Old Original 1920's Admiration Cigar Raccoon Mini Advertising Sign N/r
Winston Cigarettes Vintage Advertisement Sign & Thermometer-rustic Outdoors Sign
Old Original Piedmont Cigarette Porcelain Sign
Chesterfield Cigarette Metal Advertising Sign
Porcelain Beech-nut Tobacco Out Door Sign
Nice 1961 Vintage Kool Menthol Magic Cigarette Old Door Push Strip Tin Sign
Vintage Kool Cigarette Harley Davidson Metal Embossed Advertising Sign
Old Gold Cigarettes Babe Ruth Tin Sign Excellent Condition
Rare Red Kamel Cigarette Hanging Dangler Sign W/rotating Camel 15 Yrs Old Unused
Harley Davidson Tin Cigarette Eagle Sign 1988
1997 Korbel Brandy & Excalibur Imported Cigars Tin Metal Bar Sign - Wall Decor 
Banjo String Picking Music Negro Tobacco Box Label Sign Gibson Getsch Kay Guitar
Yellow Cab 5 Cent Cigars, Metal Embossed Sign, Officer And 20's Car Graphics
Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn Sign Hand Made & Painted Bird House Nice Rare Piece
1990 Babe Ruth Baseball Old Gold Cigarettes Reproduction Tin Sign Collectible
Signs
Types
Subjects
- 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
Other
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
