I have 2 very old authentic cedar Honduran cigar boxes when cigars were only 25 cents each. Price boxes?
These boxes are gorgeous, one is 6″x6″x3 1/2″, the other is 9″ across, 7″ long, and only 1 1/2″ tall. Both made entirely of cedar and have all original papers and burnt work on wood. One is Dutch Masters, the other is Baccarat. They have great brass hardware to open/close and on the hinges in back. Each held 25 cigars.
I have a neighbor who wants to buy them from me ( they were given to me from an acquaintance years ago) but I have no idea how much to sell them for. Can you help with any ideas for pricing these rare boxes? Thanks in advance:-)
The Baccarat box is no older than 30 years old – it was introduced in 1978. Not sure about the DM.
Its very difficult to price something like these as its a very small, niche market and only worth what someone is willing to pay for them.
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Between the twenty story buildings on Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, 88th street was lined with five story brownstones – most of them single family homes. The street in front of the houses was lined with sycamore trees protected by five foot high protectors made of vertical iron staves held together by horizontal iron bands. The staves ended in spear points at the top and were painted green. Later, after the War, most of the paint had worn off and we’d grab the top section of the staves and bend them toward us to show how strong we’d grown.
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