I buy a wide range for research and display.

I buy items as good or better than what you see here in my Museum informative or interesting items in fine condition.

Tax Stamps WANTED

US and Canada

Prints-Illustrations

WANTED Worldwide

Sheet-Music  WANTED

Worldwide

Newspapers-magazines

WANTED Worldwide

OTHER WANTS are described at right.

Most Wanted

1. 1.Tobacco Trade Directories
   

2. 2.Cuban Presidential boxes
   

3. 3.Firecracker shaped box
   

4. 4.FIVE BROTHERS cigar box
   

5. 5.Ads offering premiums
   

6. 6.Canadian Series C stamps
   

7. 7.Anything cigar from 1700’s
   

8. 8.ASTHMA CURE box
   

9. 9.A.B.C. cigar box
   

10. 10.250 & 500 tax stamps
    

11. 11.Railroad-car shaped box
    

12. 12. Boxes from before 1875
    

13. 13. Sheet music not on exhibit
    

14. 14. Photo WWI cigarette train
    

15. 15. PUCK 1877 w/Gompers illus
    

   How to Sell to NCHM

Describe your item fully.

Send a low res jpg scan or photo whenever appropriate.

    tony@cigarhistory.info

Tony Hyman

Cigar History Museum

Box 3028

    Pismo Beach, CA 93448

Interestingly shaped boxes are always wanted no matter where made. This truck box held 100 cigars made in the Netherlands.  KaVeeWee comes from Karel Van Wely.

PHOTOGRAPHS

I buy or accept gifts of photos related to cigars from all periods, if they’re interesting and sharp:

    •  Cigar factories, stores, warehouses inside and out;

    •  Parade floats, window displays and other promotions;

    •  Delivery wagons, cars and trucks;

    •  Cigar salesmen;

    •  Women and children cigar smokers;

    •  Train of boxcars full of cigarettes for troops in WWI;

Black-card stereoview series of Growing Shadeleaf Tobacco in CT  (I am missing 10 of 30) Go <HERE> to see which ones.

CIGAR BOXES

I buy rare and unusual boxes in very fine condition, as good or better than what you see exhibited. Lids do not have to be attached; half the boxes made before 1880 have their lids separated. It’s not serious if the box is in otherwise fine condition. I don’t buy greasy or painted ‘fixer uppers.’

To judge condition of a cigar box click <here>.

I rarely buy duplicates. If you see a box exactly like yours on display, I probably don’t have room for another. Here are some examples of what I want.

•  $300 to $500 for Cuban chests marked “expresamente para” or “especiales para” anyone important;

•  $400 for a FIRECRACKER shaped box;

•  $400 for ASTHMA CURE cigar box pre 1900;

1. • $150 for ABC (Akron, Bedford & Cleveland) trolly box;
   

2. • $150 for FIVE BROTHERS cigar box from IN or PA;
   

3. • $150 for OLD MAN’S CHOICE box;
   

•  $$$ for boxes before 1874 in fine condition;

•  $$$ for boxes with photos of local events for labels;

•  $$$ for boxes with health claims from any period;

•  $$$ for boxes from Cuba, Florida or California pre 1898;

•  $$$ for some from Factory 11, 3rd NY  (Straiton & Storm);

•  $$$ for some from Factory 17, 2nd Virginia  (Lorillard);

•  $$$ for some from Factory 50, 3rd NY  (Lichtenstein);

•  $$$ for pre-1916 boxes from Fact. 202 in IN (Fendrich);

•  $$$ for some boxes from Factory 212 in Ohio (M & N);

Paste sharp low res jpg photos into an email.  Include

    [1] the top and front of the box

    [2] the inside lid and inside box

    [3] the bottom.

In addition to photos, give the box ID (Factory, tax district, state and number of cigars).  What is the date of your box?

If you don’t know how to date your box, click <here>.

If your box is from Cuba, how is the box marked ON THE BOTTOM?  Boxes from Honduras, Nicaragua, Canary Islands, Costa Rica & Jamaica are seldom of interest.

LABEL CATALOGS & SCRAPBOOKS

    •  Labels in cigar label sample books or in scrapbooks.

    •  Collections of 19th century Cuban labels.

        If your labels are framed, or come with certificates or guarantees, I am not interested and, I’m sorry to say, can’t help you sell them. If you bought your labels from a commercial company since 1970, I am not interested and unable to help you resell them.

CIGAR BANDS

I buy large collections mounted in attractive designs in albums only. Collections of a few hundred bands in notebooks or composition books are seldom of interest.

PRODUCTS FROM S. HYMAN

I buy fine condition boxes & cans from S. Hyman tobacco and cigar factory in Montreal, Canada. His products are clearly marked with his name. Any box or can other than those pictured is wanted if in fine condition. $50-$100 paid for most.   [DN8828]

“No. We’re not related.” Tony Hyman

ANYTHING FROM HENRY J. VEITH, Rochester, NY

I want anything from the business of Henry J. Veith, located at 583 North Clinton in Rochester from 1870± to 1915±.  Veith was a cigar maker, wholesaler and dealer in tobacco leaf. Wants include bills, letters, receipts, envelopes, photos, boxes, catalogs, trade cards...anything. He operated Factory 585, 28th Dist. NY, and boxes will be marked on the bottom. 

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Tax regulations, congressional committee reports, letters, legal opinions, census data, court rulings, forms ... if it came from the government and pertains to cigars from any year 1760 to 2000 I’ll probably buy it.

CATALOGS

Catalogs before 1930 from cigar, cigar box, cigar machinery,  cigar label, cigar lighter, cigar cutter, cigar tool and similar companies are wanted.

BILLS, LETTERS, LEDGERS & RECORDS

1. • Business letters before 1920 illustrated with a building, machine, delivery wagon, factory interior, or box of cigars...     or something else having to do with cigars; 
   

2. • Envelopes illustrated, especially with cigar buildings;
   

•  Business records of a cigar factory, wholesaler or retailer;

•  Postcards, trade cards, insert cards;

•  Ledgers of a home industry;

•  Ledgers of a tobacco grower, 1800’s.

PERSONAL LETTERS

•  Personal accounts 1760-1960 of tobacco buying trips, sales trips, testing cigar equipment, bad or good experiences, new techniques, etc. ...  any document or printed account which sheds light on a cigar event or process from a personal standpoint. 

Letters I own include a girl confessing she rolled a mouse carcass into a cigar on her last day at work, another from a cigar machinery salesman telling how a clever burglar robbed his hotel room, descriptions of tobacco buying at Amsterdam markets, a buying trip to Cuba, a salesman trying to sell some of the first cigars H.Upmann made in 1845, a three-page typed letter detailing how to set up a branch office for a distributor.

That’s the sort of interesting content I want.

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Write the Curator: <Tony@CigarHistory.info>

Not Wanted

1. 1.Greasy boxes;
   

2. 2.Boxes with missing lids;
   

3. 3.Boxes that are painted;
   

4. 4.Boxes with varnished labels;
   

5. 5.Tobacco tins;
   

6. 6.Boxes made in Jamaica, Honduras, Canary Islands,
   

    or Dominican Republic;

7. 7.Boxes made after 1942;
   

8. 8.Most Boite Nature boxes;
   

9. 9.Boring boxes.
   

I bought this one from 1875.

1905              1930                               1951