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	We acquired this object.
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Cigarette Holder

This is a Cigarette Holder. It was produced by Cartier. It is dated 1932. Its medium is jet, silver, diamonds, sapphires.

By the 1920s most jewelers in the United States and Europe carried smoking accessories. The cigarette holder protected one’s fingers and eyes while also playing a significant social and fashionable role. Although men used cigarette holders, the Jewelers’ Circular credited the rise of female smokers to the cigarette holder industry, which used a great range of materials and eye-catching styles.

It is credited The Carolyn Hsu-Balcer Collection.

18K cigarette holder with spiral engraving on the third nearest the cigarette hole. There are a few small round diamonds set into the area of the spiraling. The remainder of the holder is fashioned with gold links which end at a tortoise shell mouth piece.

Cigarette Holder, 1928
18-karat gold, diamond, tortoiseshell.
The Carolyn Hsu-Balcer Collection.
73.2016.2

Ejector Cheroot Holder
silver, casein formaldehyde.
The Carolyn Hsu-Balcer Collection.
73.2016.3

Empire State Cigarette Lighter
cast aluminum.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-73

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Monkey Figure
porcelain, enamel.
The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
1989-41-130

A cigarette holder fabricated in colorful plastic with a streamlined body. The light green area used for the mouthpiece is rounded then progresses into a form with squarish corners for more than half of the body. The attached part has a small dark section, probably used as a filter for the smoke. It is attached to the remainder of the body having squarish sides, manufactured in tan plastic that expands slightly into the opening where a green plastic covers the corners at the tip. The photograph captures the cigarette holder against a light gray background.

Object ID #907216417
plastic.
The Carolyn Hsu-Balcer Collection.
73.2016.5

This Cartier brooch has a curving square frame and diamond studded elements around the frame. The square frame itself is smooth with curved edges but sharp corners, and gives off a light blue shade. The square has a row of square studs with four circular studs lining the interior shape and adding intricate detail. The square's top edge has a three-rowed diamond band hugging around the top of the square. The bottom edge of the square has the same three-rowed diamond band with the only difference being the hanging, studded trapezoid below it. There are matching diamond studded elements hinged on either side by a wider band of diamond and black stone square studs. The shape's longest sides are the width of the square and look like triangles, but with elongated, squared-off parallel lines off the corners, extending the length of the triangle slightly. The triangle's centers have a large circular stone surrounded by smaller studs that are arranged to mirror the triangle shape. The triangle's angled sides are outlined with black rock embellishments, and meet to a circular diamond on the corner. The hanging studded diamond and black rock trapezoid is hinged to an upside-down trapezoid with edged curves. In the center of the upside-down trapezoid, the curves meet to three circular stones. The bottom most stone has a studded circle around it; hinged off the studded circle are three spherical black stones. The three black stones are stacked and are a petal-like studded base that holds the pearl at the bottom, prominent in size to the whole piece.

Object ID #1042155089
platinum, diamonds, cultured pearl, onyx, rock crystal.
Lent by Cartier Collection, Inv. CL 235 A24.
86.2016.9

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 12.7 × 1.4 × 3.5 cm (5 in. × 9/16 in. × 1 3/8 in.)

We have 1 media file that features Cigarette Holder.

"Jazznocracy," Jimmie Lunceford (1934)

Cartier’s cigarette holder is a stylish piece from 1932 that is exciting, provocative, and fun. The Cotton Club featured musicians that were playing music that could be described in a similar...

http://www.folkways.si.edu/jimmie-lunceford-and-his-orchestra/jaznochracy/jazz-ragtime/music/track/smithsonian

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaHQe/
Accession Number 73.2016.1
Object ID 907216409