Vintage Brass Cigarette Box With Etched Pictorial Map

Description

This metal cigarette box is one smokin' vintage tobacciana collectible. The brass metal cover has an engraved pictorial map of … more This metal cigarette box is one smokin' vintage tobacciana collectible. The brass metal cover has an engraved pictorial map of the continental United States. The map indicates major cities across America. Most states also have a symbolic icon such as cattle and oil wells in Texas, cactus in Arizona, oranges in Florida, and corn in Illinois.

You don't have to use this cool case for cigarettes. It would make a unique stash or trinket box on a living room coffee table, bedroom dresser, or home office desk.

The decorative cigarette box is in good vintage condition showing typical and age-appropriate wear. The inside is clean. A previous owner applied green felt to the bottom of the box.

Approximate Measurements:
5 1/4" long x 3" wide x 1 1/4" deep.

Please note that contemporary cigarettes are larger than cigarettes made in the 1940s & 1950s when this case was made. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, most cigarettes were 70 millimeters long which equals about 2 3/4". less