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Lucky Strike Counter Top Christmas Display Ad   What a novel idea.  Give cigarettes out as gifts for Christmas.  Be sure to look at the other pics to see what this is.  I apologize for the glare in this one.  The condition is super.  The color crisp.  The one thing I note are small rust spots on the surface of the front from staples to hold the support shot from the back.  Minor.  This is a really nice piece and stands about 12" tall.    Click for Pic       Click for Pic     

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Good ..... $145.00

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Yankee Girl Tobacco / Scotten Dillon Countertop Fold out Display Ad   This cardboard easel-back tobacco sign dates from the 1940's. Its in great condition. Measures approx. 12" x 8".  It was Manufactured by SCOTTEN DILLON COMPANY DETROIT, MICH. This is a counter top sign that looks like the pack of tobacco! Nice clean old tobacco item for your collection.    ML-tob-3   Excellent...... $40.00   

Misc Cigar & Tobacco Wrappers    The other things are wraps or open ended boxes for cigars.  They are NOS     ML-tob-4

Excellent...... $25.00  / Lot

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Yankee Girl Scrap Box     nice condition.  

Good...... $10.00 / pr.

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Yankee Girl Tobacco Bags     Nice condition.  

Good...... $15.00 / Lot

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Garrett Sweet Snuff     Nice condition.   Click for Pic

Good...... $35.00 / Lot

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F. F. Adams Peerless Tobacco     2 Unopened packs.  Still smells like the real stuff.  Nice condition.  

Good...... $20.00 / Lot

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Optimo Cigar Tin / Tobacco     This is a little different.  Click for Pic

Good...... $20.00

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Tobacco     This is a little different.  That is the original receipt from when they bought this back in the 70's.   400 miles or so from home and a couple of tanks of gas on one of their outings.  Imagine what that would cost today.  . 

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Good...... $40.00

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3 Chew Tins and Old Gold Tin    

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Good...... $20.00 / lot 

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6 Tobacco Tins   

Union Leader  ...... Good...... $25.00 

Edgeworth  ...... Good...... $10.00

Seven Seas  ...... Good...... $15.00

Honest Labor  ...... Good...... $45.00

Half  ...... Good...... $5.00

Piper  ...... Good...... $10.00

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"The Trade" Wooden Cigar Box    Taller than the norm and in nice condition.   Click for Pic

Good...... $25.00 

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3 Wooden Cigar Boxes      

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Good...... $20.00 / lot 

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Rare, Rare "Heyneman's Punch" Wooden Cigar Box    Herman Heyneman's Havana Filled Five Cent Cigar---this is so much earlier than the typical wooden cigar box.  The condition is real nice and the graphics are great.      Click for Pic     Click for Pic     Click for Pic     Click for Pic     Click for Pic    

Very Good...... $395.00 

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Cast Iron & Copper Figural Cigar Nipper      This interesting cigar noipper is unmarked but well done. 

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  Good...... $125.00

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Tin Litho Cigar Sign  This colorful San Felice tin litho advertising cigar sign is in very nice condition.  The field is near perfect noting typical holes in the corners from prior mountings.  It measures about 16" tall and 12" or so across the face.  The colors are bright and the label on the box shown is readable.       Click for Pic      Click for Pic

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Good+ ..... $295.00    

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Cigar Press Machine  This unusual cigar making machine hails from Davenport Iowa.  I believe the idea was to speed up the typical process of filling cigar molds and then putting them in a press for days till ready.  I imagine the idea here was to speed the process up by revolving the mold under pressure in this machine until the desired result was obtained.   The patent info is cast into the legs and uprights and the brass plaque clearly identifies it as being from Davenport.  I imagine a close reading of the patent papers would reveal all the glorious attributes of how the machine was meant to perform and produce a quicker and better product.  It must not have been a big seller or very popular as it is only the second one I have ever seen or heard of in over 30 years.  It is about 16" tall and 10" wide.  It seems to operates as it should, and the leather belts appear to be original and in pretty good condition.  Note that two of the blocks / molds are replacements and are being held in place with putty.  A very rare and desirable piece of tobacciana or cigar making history.         Click for Pic     Click for Pic      Click for Pic      Click for Pic      Click for Pic     Click for Pic     

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Good+ ..... $1495.00    

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2 Advertising Ashtrays   Reddy Kilowatt, and a Whirlpool crushed can to show how well the new compactor worked.      Click for Pic         

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Good ..... $15.00  / Chioce

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Lot of Advertising Ashtrays   Another novel collecting idea---lifting ashtrays from different establishments!  From what I know if you spent all your time in Vegas, smoked, and took ashtrays from all the Casinos that went under you might have done OK.  Those who were picking them up at the local diner were not gambling and missed the boat for the most part.  

As the collectors went traveling about the countryside in the search for antiques they seem to have had an eye for other potential collectibles and these were priced right.  Look at all the pics to see the different categories Food, Misc, Hotels, and San Francisco.  There are 25 or so different ashtrays in this lot.    Click for Pic       Click for Pic    Click for Pic    

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Good ..... $25.00 / lot  of 25 or so     SOLD!

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