Welcome to the Up-in-Smoke Cigar Band Museum

The "Up-in-Smoke" Cigar Band Museum is a non-commercial website presenting an online exhibition of antique cigar bands from the "Golden Age" of cigar advertising that flourished between the 1890s and 1920s. The cigars themselves long ago went up in smoke, but the bands are presented here for your viewing pleasure.

The museum contains scanned images of over 800 different vintage cigar bands, as well as information on cigar band history and collecting. The majority of the cigar bands are from U.S. and Cuban brands, although some Mexican, Canadian, and European brands are also included.

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© S. Tomlin / Whizstreet
Museum Opened December 1995
Major Renovation April 2000