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Title: ID help - box
Post by: Grga on January 25, 2014, 10:51:03 am

Hi! Can someone please help me with identifying this cigarette box symbol. I've seen it somewhere but I can't recall where from. Any descriptive word would be appreciated too - Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: mart on January 25, 2014, 02:18:53 pm

What is your location ?? Not like any I have ever seen in U.S. !!  Are you sure its a cigarette box ?? What is the size ??

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: KC on January 25, 2014, 03:05:32 pm

Reminds me of the boxes men would use to hold their change, handkerchiefs, pocket watches/knives in from the early/mid 1900's.  My dad had a cedar one with his initial on top as well.

Believe it was called a Man's Valet.

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: mart on January 25, 2014, 06:45:31 pm

That's more what it looks like to me too !!  Can we see the inside ??

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: Grga on January 26, 2014, 06:53:43 am

Here is from the inside. I'm from Croatia and I found this somewhere in the attic. Dimensions are: width - 23,5cm, height - 6,5cm and depth - 13,5cm.

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: KC on January 27, 2014, 01:10:56 am

Can you please tell me if that slanted wooden piece in the box is securely/glued in or does it lift up?

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: Grga on January 27, 2014, 01:24:27 pm

It can lift up to 45 degrees and stay like that so cigarettes can be easily inserted and available

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: KC on January 27, 2014, 02:12:08 pm

You might want to keep an eye on ones that are similar on Ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-CARVED-WOOD-CIGARETTE-BOX-CASE-/151215345811?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2335231093 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-CARVED-WOOD-CIGARETTE-BOX-CASE-/151215345811?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2335231093)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-VINTAGE-WOODEN-THIRTY-CIGARETTE-BOX-/261380105669?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdb77e5c5 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-VINTAGE-WOODEN-THIRTY-CIGARETTE-BOX-/261380105669?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdb77e5c5)

This one is more intricate/ornate....but watch the selling price or if it sells at all
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mother-of-Pearl-Inlay-4-Level-Wood-Cigarette-Box-Case-Very-Intricate-/121261975747?pt=US_Cigarettes&hash=item1c3bc6e8c3 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Mother-of-Pearl-Inlay-4-Level-Wood-Cigarette-Box-Case-Very-Intricate-/121261975747?pt=US_Cigarettes&hash=item1c3bc6e8c3)

By-the-way...I never answered your questions.  It appears to be a monogram "H" to me.  Up until the 60's it was very "in" to have a cigarette box sitting on the coffee table or a desk to offer to your guests.  A monogrammed box was very prestigious.

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: screemineagle7 on January 31, 2014, 10:55:58 pm

I'm not that bright, my mother even left me out in the sun when I was a baby and I didn't absorb any of all that brightness but that looks like a nice box I would build to hold my router bits for wood working. Just a thought.. What diameter are the holes in the Box? 

Title: Re: ID help - box
Post by: Grga on February 04, 2014, 11:39:51 am

diameter of holes in the box are around 1cm