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Title: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: Zombiehordes on April 30, 2017, 01:36:35 PM
Found this box at a local goodwill and thought it was curious. Does anyone have info on it? The photo on top is under glass and the dimensions are 3.5"x5"x1.125"
Thanks for the help
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: mart on May 01, 2017, 05:25:43 AM
What is the box itself made of ??  Explain the third pic please !!  Pics are sideways but looks to be a topiary village but where ??
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: ghopper1924 on May 01, 2017, 05:37:39 AM
Looks like a gothic tower in the middle distance on the bottom photo, so I'd hazard to guess....England?
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: Ipcress on May 01, 2017, 07:04:39 AM
Levens Hall gardens. The following view was taken just to the right of the one on the box

(http://www.levenshall.co.uk/content/1010/Live/image/topiary3.jpg)
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: ghopper1924 on May 01, 2017, 07:42:36 AM
Yay!
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: mart on May 01, 2017, 10:04:50 AM
Brownie point for you Ipcress !!  I had no idea where it was !!
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: KC on May 01, 2017, 01:34:21 PM
Different countries have different size packs.  Average sizing for cigarette packs is  3.5" high 2 and 1/8 wide 7/8" thick.

Could be used for anything.

Second picture appears to have material/leather/fabric wrapped over the lip (see top of inside.) 
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: Zombiehordes on May 01, 2017, 06:39:24 PM
The third pic is of the box upside down to show the texture of the green cloth its wrapped in and the black leather bottom. I think the box is made of thin wood and covered in the green cloth.
So if it is a cigarette box, aprox what decade would it have been used?
Thanks for all the help and info
Title: Re: Cigarette box??? please help identify
Post by: mart on May 01, 2017, 07:39:55 PM
Have you tried to see if a cigarette fits  in it !!  They may not have had a filter back then !!   Ladies didn`t normally carry a pack of cigarettes  !!  She would have 4 or 5 in a similar box as yours !!  Smoking was more of  a social event !!  I would guess maybe 30`s or 40`s for your box !!