Mid-19th Century Tobacco Accessories

A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...

A Dutch meerschaum pipe with silver mounts, 1840-1870 According to common usage in the 19th century, the pipe bowl has a silver valve cover. The lid has a the pattern of a shell t...

A very rare and exquisitely carved meerschaum pipe bowl portraying the head of an American Confederate soldier and mounted with gold dating from around 1860. The head has been finely...

Antique Chinese paktong alloy water pipe, most likely mid to late 19th century. All pieces are still together, including the down stem and two tweezer and brush smoking tools. Two si...

A large tobacco pipe from old Burma (Myanmar), circa 1850. Solid wood bowl, chamber and shank. The stem is made of bone, attached to the shank by a mor...

Dutch silver cigar case by Willem de Peijt, Schoonhoven, 1856 A silver cigar case for 5 cigars in size 12 cm x 1 cm. The silver case is decorated with floral engravings on the fron...

A very fine Japanese maki-e lacquer decorated tabako bon, or smoking box, late Edo Period, mid-19th century, Japan. The elegant smoking box of black lacquer decorated with a wonderful gold lacquer takamaki-e design of a gnarled and elegantly twisted plum tree with branches in full bloom. A border of golden cranes in flight to the top. The smoking box, called a tabako bon, is comprised of an open section at the top with inset with two cylindrical metal canisters...

Standing figure of a gentleman wearing a hat, holding a pipe and holding a cane by his side.Hinged and opening to a humidor. Rectangular base. From an Amherst Mass estate.

19th Century gentleman's club horseshoe smoking set. Would have been in a gentleman's club. Walnut horseshoe base and three cups for cigarettes, cigars, and matches along with strike...

For cat lovers, Silvered bronze humidor realistically shaped as a cat's head. Opens to reveal humidor space. Large container for cigards and smaller one for cigarettes or matches. La...

By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...

Rare cigar humidor made in wood, with a front flap, discovering five sliding cane trays. Beautiful bronze and silver electroplated brass ornaments, such as the central niche decorated with a winged creature, surmounted on top of the cabinet with a feline. Resting on four tall legs joined by a stretcher decorated with a silvered pierced bronze incense burner. The central relief of that cellarette for cigars, with that fantasy creature, is directly inspired from the one designed by J. Brandely for the front door of the Merovingian Cabinet made by Diehl in 1867, and now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197). Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see « Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle »,D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see « l’Art en France sous le Second Empire », Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861. In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active between 1867 and 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book « Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867 » (vol. II, pp. 133 149). He writes of a table of which « the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love » (p. 133) and a jewelry case where « The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornementation » (p. 149). For this Universal Exhibition of 1867, Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors : Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...

A magnificent hand stitched large leather cigar case or 'cigar protector', circa 1850. Made to put in a bag or case. Has original applied silver monogram. Dimensions (when fully clo...

19th century Chippewa pipe with weeping hearts. Long stem Chippewa T-pipe with file burnt stem and steatite bowl having red Catlinite weeping hearts and pewter inlay. The bowl is squ...

Intended to hold paan or betel, the seamed cylindrical body flaring downward towards the base, the domed lid showing a lotus-bud final over a flattened and canted rim, both decorated...

A 19th century Dutch silver tobacco box by J.J. Oosterbaan, Leeuwarden 1842 A beautifully decorated silver tobacco box with a Dutch scene ...

A beautifully carved wooden snuff box (treen) from the middle 19th century with a beautiful old patina in the shape of a shoe Good condition as shown ...

The item for sale is a Tular silver snuffbox. It has an oval shape and the lid is engraved with a Moscow landmark building in an ornamental frame. Th...

An elegant Karl Johan cast iron Tobacco Box from Hellefors Bruk, Sweden. Made in Hellefors in 1838 with a ownership inscription G. Söderström 1838. Beautiful patina with some small c...

Rare mid-19th century cast iron match holder by Zimmerman of Hanau, Germany, circa 1850 This woman in her night clothes lights her way holdi...

Because traditional Japanese kimono didn't include pockets, men and women carried their belongings in small compartments known as inro. Hung from the obi sash belted around the waist and secured by carved netsuke beads, inro were worn as fashionable accessories and often crafted of fine materials. Paired with a cylindrical case that once held a thin smoking pipe (kiseru), this 19th century inro was likely used for storing shredded tobacco. Both components are carved from spotted bamboo...

Four sets and two single pieces of English Victorian brass chimney ornaments or "good luck" shoes. What a lovely collection of shiny shoes don't you think? Let me tell you a little bit about them, during the Victorian period in England, it was fashionable to have a pair of "good luck" brass shoes on your mantel (fireplace), they would been given to you as a wedding gift. Two sets were definitely match stick holders...

Chinese export silver cheroot case, ca 1860. Oval with hinged push-button cover. Allover repousse. On front are scenes of daily life with indigenous spear...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Russian silver vesta case in the form of a boot, an addition to our diverse smoking related silverware collection. This exceptional antique silver vesta case...

A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...

19th Century English brass snuff box with copper top and bottom, remnants of old decoration throughout, circa 1850.

From the time of the great gadgetry. Cast iron pasta/tobacco cutter marked "MARKE AAL WERKE". Original and functional. Period: 19th century Origin: G...

Hûkka, hookah base, in black steel with floral decoration in silver inlay. Persia or North India, 19th c. The top part is missing.