sterling cigarette holder Silver or Cheroot 1900 1910 A vintage solid sterling desktop cigarette box manufactured by Tiffany Silver Cigarette Holder with Garnet

Dealers often view these oddball things as less valuable, and though that may be true in terms of what most collectors want, in other ways they are the greatest thing about collecting: that somehow, by some miracle, some film otherwise meant for the dumpster has survived, alongside a collection of Hogans Heros episodes

In particular cigarette box companies often also use their packaging to send health messages to their customers

For me, I have this discussion with a number of people, as you might imagine

Instead of smoking cigarettes filled with harmful chemicals, people could have used a product that eliminated many of the most dangerous substances