Cigarette Holders By The Famous Makers

[misterlowercase]

A model strikes an exceptionally chic smoking pose in this Serge Balkin photograph, which appeared in the November 1946 Glamour. Her saffron-colored doeskin gloves nicely offset her deep-V-neck gown, and the elegant cigarette holder by Alfred Orlik prevents any prospect of soiling. Her bemused expression gives this work a most casual, elegant quality.

1920 advertisement:

Cigarette holders and cheroot holders were popular for quite some time and pipemakers had an ability to add to their revenue stream by making them.
Sure, these ain't pipes, but we can still appreciate how beautiful they are, and especially the stemwork.
I recently came across a few that really floored me, and prompted this thread.

Surprisingly, it's rather difficult to find many fine examples.

 

[boilermakerandy]

Audrey Hepburn was absolutely stunning.

 

[phil67]

^^ Amen to that, an the epitome of class.

 

[brian64]

Very cool pics MLC...thanks. I'm glad this got bumped...I somehow missed it the first time around. Cigarette holders are even more rare than pipes these days amongst the general population.

 

[ssjones]

Those Dunhill Bamboo holders are incredible! Audrey Hepburn would look good with a hayseed!

 

[gmwolford]

I love these old holders and ads. I almost missed this; glad I didn't.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Very cool, but you know with as many cigarettes as gets burned in those things in a day, they've got to smell terrible.

 

[mso489]

Those are the churchwarden stems for Camels smokers.

 

[buster]

The bamboo holders are cool! I was watching an ebay listing a while back of a kaywoodie cigarett holder a while back. I don't smoke Cigarettes so I let it go even though I thought it was neat.