Gone are the days when cigars represented backroom politics and big business boardrooms, when ladies would have to leave the dining room so that the gentlemen could talk freely over brandy and cigars.

Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, Norman Dennis began scavenging in passenger train cars in Allentown. He was about 8 when he started rummaging for cigar bands in trains that chugged into the ...

Centennial Hills resident John L. Curtis is passionate about a collectors' item you might never have never heard of. And he's OK with that. Since the 1970s, Curtis has amassed more than 1,000 cigar ...

“This material was collected fervently during the early part of the 20th century, 1900 to 1917. There are no items known that are considered to be rarities, even though some brands are more difficult ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cigar ring we know today owes a debt to Catherine the Great who, it is said, had her smokes silk-wrapped to ...

NEW YORK (March 1, 2016) – Nat Sherman, tobacconist to the World since 1930, has introduced new secondary bands on both cigar lines of the Timeless Collection to help simplify the product ...

Being “green” is not a new idea. Our ancestors recycled and reused precious pieces of fabrics, broken dishes and glass, iron, tin and more. Textiles often were woven on a loom at home until the ...

Bill and Alice Saurber are just regular folks from Hamilton, Ohio, playin’ with cigar boxes and pallin’ around. But that didn’t stop the married couple from vying for the title of “America’s Favorite ...