Kick Back, Cool Down, Drink Up: Cigar Boxes, Fans, and Silverware from the Collection

Museum London’s collection of cigar boxes, fans, and silverware embody important parts of the community’s history.

Museum London’s collection of cigar boxes, fans, and silverware embody important parts of the community’s history. Cigar boxes, with their colourful images, illustrate a part of London’s industrial past. Fans for their part, are fashion accessories, souvenirs, and, on occasion, promotional items. As for silverware, it was sometimes a gift to mark a milestone, and other times a status symbol, and always decorative. Image: Cigar Box Lid, 1883, Gift of Stephen Hale, 1977