Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...

This vintage thrift store find is an easy upcycle that transforms into a posh vanity piece, perfect for keeping your jewelry ...

MODESTO — The latest donation to the Jacksonville Area Museum almost became part of a guitar. While looking for new material to make cigar box guitars, Logan Elliott found a couple of cigar boxes from ...

Looking for steals and deals in the collectible world? There's a market for cigar boxes and tobacco tins. Good, saleable finds are storage items — not only cigar boxes and tobacco tins, but bank boxes ...

It's not often one has the pleasure of locally perusing a display of 140-year-old cigar boxes, books from the 1900s, 1800s and even 1700s, 1960s pop culture items, modern paper art, local literature, ...

Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between ...

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

A cigar box is just a cigar box — except when it's a guitar. In the hands of Gipson Shoemaker III, the simple wooden box becomes a musical instrument worth hundreds of dollars and capable of producing ...