cigarette container?

[Woodland Detectors]

I found this detecting St, Johns island SC at an old church yard. I was thinking maybe a cigarette container. What would the approximate age of this be?

 

[Tony in SC]

Yep!! Looks like a cigarette box to me. Tony

 

[NGE]

Looks only big enough to hold Camel's or Lucky's........NGE

 

[BuckleBoy]

Looks only big enough to hold Camel's or Lucky's........NGE

yep--some sort of unfiltered cig.

 

[NGE]

Pall Mall and Chesterfields were longer though unfiltered....NGE

 

[Monty]

Depending on how old it is, there were no "king size" cigarettes for years. It undoubtedly had a liner glued inside at one time. No idea of it's age, but prior to there being king size cigarettes. Oh, and I agree it's a cigarette box. Monty

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I cant find a match but here is one type. http://www.tias.com/11001/PictPage/1922200926.html

 

[crazyjarhead]

Looks only big enough to hold Camel's or Lucky's........NGE

Those were poular in the day. My dad smoked non-filter camels and my friends mom smoke pallmall's

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Judging from the scale of the penny its about 3 x 3 inches ....the depth looks a little thin for cigarettes...can you tell us what the depth is ...

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Judging from the scale of the penny its about 4 x 4 inches ....the depth looks a little thin for cigarettes...can you tell us what the depth is ...

The one pictured in my link is 5-3/4 x 4-1/2. It does look a bit thin but so does mine. Maybe the top lid is thinner than the base.

Circa: 1940-1960
Size: 5 3/4 in across x 4 1/2 long
Color: Ivory and Gold
Type: Chesterfield CrownTin Cigarette Case
Country of Origin: United States

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I just measured an old Lucky Strike tin we have here at home....the depth is 1/2 inch....a cigarette is 1/4 inch .......

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I just measured an old Lucky Strike tin we have here at home....the depth is 1/2 inch....a cigarette is 1/4 inch .......

Is the top lid thinner than the base?

 

[Gypsy Heart]

top lid is about 1/8th or two stacked pennies....I remeasured the scale above and it was suppose to be 3 x 3 ....not 4x 4........also a cig without filter is about 2 1/2 inches

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Thanks for the help eveyone. I dont know, its kinda small even for unfiltered cigs. It is thin measuring maybe 3/4 inch w/box closed.

 

[Kansas]

I found something simalar to that last spring. It was full of old wooden matches, but I dont know if that was the correct usage for it.

 

[Monty]

The ones I have seen didn't hold a whole pack of smokes so they wouldn't have to be thick enough to hold a pack. There were some old plastic ones that held a pack as I recall. Monty