When is a cigar box more than a cigar box? When it holds premium handmade cigars. For more than a century, these boxes — decorated with designs, pictures and scenes symbolic of the brand — have ...

Cristina García • Tina Pacheco - 'Ybor City Remembered' • Gayla Jamison - '100 years of Ybor City' • Dr. Louis Perez Jr. • Frank Figueroa • Ferdie & Luisita Sevilla Pacheco • Wieslaw Pogorzelski • Amy ...

Currently on display at the St. Helena Library is an exhibit of Cigar Box Art by local artist Frank Ansley. The art pieces are small collage/assemblages contained in cigar boxes, with subjects ...

Beginning in the 19th century, cigar boxes were adorned with colorful and intricate artwork, and now, many are as collectable as the cigars they contain. They now serve as mini-advertising billboards, ...

DeVonna and husband Bob sold a number of their handcrafted purses at art fairs in Midland and three other Michigan cities this past summer. They ll have a booth at the Holiday Art Fair at the Midland ...

Boxes of chocolates and flowers are standard Valentine’s Day gifts, but that might change this year after people see what artists have created on cigar boxes. Throughout February and March, Jessel ...

It's sometimes easy to forget that Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the nation by population. Along with this amount of people it is only natural that some will rise as artists, writers, comics, ...

What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art probably is the latest one to become popular.

A. D. Faber, Cigar Label Art (Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House, 1949). Limited edition of 500 copies. Graphic Arts GAX in process. This unusual reference book, compiled by the collector A.D. Faber, ...

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." Rudyard Kipling may have written that line with tongue in cheek back in 1886, but in those days a good cigar was unquestionably a valuable ...