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Cigar, Pipe Collectibles Gaining Momentum

Filed under: Cigars

Smoking bans may ultimately keep cigar connoisseurs from buying that next lighter or cigar cutter, but there is a group – that may or may not smoke – that is buying cigar-related items aggressively. Collectors are being drawn to antique smoking-related items, even if their use has become less popular over the past several decades.

Pipes, ashtrays, cigar boxes and cigarette dispensers are on the list for this subculture. Others are drawn to packaging and advertising, scooping up old cigar bans, boxes of matches, in-store ads and other forms of "tobacciana." Some are even quite expensive.

So, when your kids get on your case about the stack of empty cigar boxes in the living room, just tell them that's how they'll get through college ... if they're lucky.

[Photo by Steve Zak]

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The Well Ashtray

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Cigars

The Alec Bradley Cigar Company has created an ashtray for serious smokers. “The Well” is a line of eight designs, from the Miami studio of artist and ceramicist Bram Warren. The ashtrays are 9" square with cut-off corners. The size isn't extraordinary but the depth is, the bowl is a full 2" deep.%uFFFD The troughs on the sides are designed to hold larger cigars. The ashtray also features a removable match holder, a separate ceramic container that holds 25-30 wooden matches, The unglazed bottom surface of the match holder serves as a striking area for the matches. The Well costs $95 and is being sold at tobacconists.

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