This Is Hemingway's Cigar Box

Ernest Hemingway was an appreciator of the finer things in life: whiskey, cigars, women, and big game hunting. So when we stumbled upon Sir Jack's Brass Anchor Cigar Box, the part of our souls that has always yearned for a wartime tryst with a sassy foreign nurse fell in love with this handsome maritime-themed cigar vessel.

So, grab a stogie, find a lighter, and pick up your most worn-out copy of Death in the Afternoon—because if you're gonna smoke a cigar, you've got to do it in style. 

This 1920s brass box opens up to reveal a polished wood interior, along with a footed bottom (like those old bathtubs you've always wanted) and a natural protective covering of patina to ward off corrosion. 

Like Hemingway, this box was also made in America, but by Connecticut's prestigious Jennings Brothers whose specialty of man-cave accoutrement has been garnishing the bachelor pads of America since the early 20th century.

The Brass Anchor Cigar Box actually doubles as a trinket box—though you have to admit a brass box full of Pokemon cards isn't nearly as manly as a vessel full of smuggled Cuban cigars.


Jeremy Glass is the Vice editor for Supercompressor and his favorite Hemingway story is whichever one inspired the screenplay for That Darn Cat.