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    Posted 9 years ago

    hotairfan
    (389 items)

    posted are a few cigar box openers. Merchants selling cigars used them to open up the cigar box that was held shut by a little nail. You wedged the opener under the lid (close to the nail head) and pried the lid open to expose the cigars. Often the tools also furnishes a little hammer that was part of the tool to and used to hammer the lid closed after the patron bought a cigar. This helped to keep the product fresh.
    Sometimes they had a bottle opener on the opposite end to open "pop" bottles for their customers.

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    Comments

    1. UncleRon UncleRon, 9 years ago
      I believe the two hatchet-shaped pieces are candy "hammers".
    2. hotairfan hotairfan, 9 years ago
      Hi UncleRon, Your possibly correct on the larger Hammer style tool, I have seen the smaller style hammer in collector books and listed as cigar store cigar box opener

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