Other materials used for cigar boxes

    Wood and tin are not the only materials from which cigar boxes have been made. Cardboard, glass and plastic have all been important in package history.

    Man’s incredible ingenuity has also used aluminum, brass, pewter, silver-plate, tin-foil, pottery, fired ceramic, Opaline, and various combinations of the above.

    Box designers have been particularly creative in their use of materials when designing upright packaging, boxes in which the cigars stand on end, hence a “mixed media” exhibit of 125 years of uprights.