Ashtrays, Cigar Ashtrays, Accessories at Big Ashtray
Browse our large inventory of cigar ashtrays, art ashtrays and smoking accessories at Big Ashtray’s smoking super store! New and vintage ashtrays. Source: Ashtrays, Cigar Ashtrays, Accessories at Big Ashtray
About Big Ashtray Museum
Browse through hundreds of ashtrays made in days-gone by at the Big Ashtray Museum. The Big Ashtray Museum is a collection of retro, vintage and antique art ashtrays accumulated since the late 1990’s. It consists of ashtrays discovered and SOLD by the collectors at Big Ashtray. The items in the Big Ashtray museum are no […]
About Our Vintage Ashtrays
About Vintage Ashtrays Choosing retro or vintage ashtrays is a smart buy. Ashtrays made in yesteryear outshine any modern ashtray in quality, durability and design. Many ashtrays made from the 1900’s to the 1980’s were designed by creative artists and were hand-crafted in glass or pottery studios throughout the world. They were decorative works of […]
Big Ashtray – The Smoking Accessories Superstore
During the months of June and July, 2014 old Big Ashtray shut down for remodeling. After offering distinctive smoking accessories from the same site on the world wide web for over 11 years, Big Ashtray started feeling and acting a bit old. So it went in for a face-lift and came back out at the end of July 2014 with a brand-new fresh look. At the same address as always, bigashtray.com, but with modern capabilities and new product categories for smokers of all kinds. Offering returning and new customers the best selection, images and product descriptions combined with the ultimate in purchasing security, Big Ashtray is young again and ready to supply quality products with sincere and attentive customer service as always.
The Rise, Decline and Rise of the Ashtray
The Rise, Decline and Rise of the Ashtray A story is told of King Henry V receiving a gift of cigars from Spain which imported tobacco from Cuba since the late 1400’s. Finding it much to his liking he arranged for ample supplies. To contain the ash and stubs, the first known ashtray of sorts was […]
Blowing Smoke Up Your…
The phrase ‘blowing smoke up your ass’ came from an 18th century medical procedure. Tobacco smoke up your rectum is ‘warming’ and thought to promote respiration.
Visit the Big Ashtray Museum
The Big Ashtray Museum presents hundreds of documented art ashtrays made in days gone by when quality, form and function were manufacturing ideals. Click on the image below to enter.
Retro Cigarette Commercials
Cigarette T.V. commercials were outlawed many years ago. The commercials below help explain why they were banned. Imagine Dr.s promoting cigarettes for health, cartoon characters smoking, mothers letting children ‘hold’ their cigarettes, famous actors promoting cigarette brands, and of course the allure of looking sexy or cool with a cigarette as an accessory. No wonder […]
Retro Smoking Advertisements
Shameless print advertising bent on luring the population into believing cigarette smoking was glamorous and healthy. Today we know the intended messages were nonsense…and dangerous. However, the artistry and imagination of vintage cigarette advertising can still be admired and provide amusement.