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“For more than 300 years, tobacco products were ‘cool, available, and addictive.’ The rites and customs surrounding the use of tobacco over that period of time spawned thousands of peripheral products” (worldclassantiques.com). ''What to Smoke—What to Smoke With—And The Whole “What’s What” of Tobacco'' is the subtitle of Andrew Steinmetz, ''The Smoker’s Guide, Philosopher and Friend'' (1876). With knowledge comes wisdom, so here’s the whole “what’s what” of tobacciana. A century or so ago, one could find many novel formats and mediums for sale: European lacquer snuff boxes and Chinese snuff bottles, table and pocket cigar cutters and cigarette lighters, cigar and cigarette cases, cigar and cigarette holders, humidors, and dispensers, cigarette pack art, cigarette playing-card decks and cigarette trading card sets, cigar bands, cigar-box labels, ashtrays, match safes, strikers, and holders, match box labels and paper matchbook covers, tobacco tins, jars, tin tags, and tokens, pipes and pipe tampers, smoking jackets and hats, trench-art, and tramp-art cigar humidors and, before I forget, one of the most in-demand categories, ephemera, such signs, ads, caddy labels, posters, postcards, and trade catalogs of smokers’ articles. The sky was the limit in what was manufactured, purchased, displayed, used, and collected that related to smoking. Almost all these items are relics of the past. As a price guide to some of these collectibles, access “SMOKE: Tobacciana & Smoking Accoutrements,” an auction on April 20, 2022 (selkirkauctions.com).   
“For more than 300 years, tobacco products were ‘cool, available, and addictive.’ The rites and customs surrounding the use of tobacco over that period of time spawned thousands of peripheral products” (worldclassantiques.com). ''What to Smoke—What to Smoke With—And The Whole “What’s What” of Tobacco'' is the subtitle of Andrew Steinmetz, ''The Smoker’s Guide, Philosopher and Friend'' (1876). With knowledge comes wisdom, so here’s the whole “what’s what” of tobacciana. A century or so ago, one could find many novel formats and mediums for sale: European lacquer snuff boxes and Chinese snuff bottles, table and pocket cigar cutters and cigarette lighters, cigar and cigarette cases, cigar and cigarette holders, humidors, and dispensers, cigarette pack art, cigarette playing-card decks and cigarette trading card sets, cigar bands, cigar-box labels, ashtrays, match safes, strikers, and holders, match box labels and paper matchbook covers, tobacco tins, jars, tin tags, and tokens, pipes and pipe tampers, smoking jackets and hats, trench-art, and tramp-art cigar humidors and, before I forget, one of the most in-demand categories, ephemera, such signs, ads, caddy labels, posters, postcards, and trade catalogs of smokers’ articles. The sky was the limit in what was manufactured, purchased, displayed, used, and collected that related to smoking. Almost all these items are relics of the past. As a price guide to some of these collectibles, access “SMOKE: Tobacciana & Smoking Accoutrements,” an auction on April 20, 2022 (selkirkauctions.com).   


Today, according to greatestcollectibles.com, an eBay search for antique tobacciana yields more than 7,000 listings and more than 400,000 listings for tobacciana. Terry Kovel, the Grande Dame of Antiques, considers this collectible field to be “smoking hot.” Elizabeth Stewart writes “No butts about it: ‘Tobacciana’ collectibles gaining value” (elizabethappraisals.com). And Mike Conklin adds “Pipe smokers may be a dying breed, but collectibles are on fire” (chicagotribune.com); His choice of the adjective “dying” is rather crass and insensitive!  
Today, according to greatestcollectibles.com, an eBay search for antique tobacciana yields more than 7,000 listings and more than 400,000 listings for tobacciana. Terry Kovel, the Grande Dame of Antiques, considers this collectible field to be “smoking hot.” Elizabeth Stewart writes “No butts about it: ‘Tobacciana’ collectibles gaining value” (elizabethappraisals.com). And Mike Conklin adds “Pipe smokers may be a dying breed, but collectibles are on fire” (chicagotribune.com); his choice of the adjective “dying” is rather crass and insensitive!  


Dr. Lori Verderame (lancasteronline.com) believes that “Some of the most popular tobacciana collectibles are cigar bands, humidors, smoking jackets, tobacco tins, pin-up calendars featuring cigarette ads, cigarette machines, smoking stands, matchbooks, midcentury modern Zippo lighters, cigar store Indian statues and smoking automatons, with values from a few dollars to several thousand dollars and more.” Jennifer Boles focused on just one collectible: “Vintage cigarette accessories are shedding the stigma associated with lighting up, and becoming highly addictive décor” (“Smoking Trinkets: The New Collectibles,” wsj.com). While the number of smokers may be dwindling, collecting tobacciana continues to be as popular as ever and many non-smokers are attracted to these collectibles. There’s something for everyone, and the challenge is to decide which items to collect. If any of this stuff appeals to you, join the Antique Advertising Association of America to learn more, and you’ll discover that there are specialized clubs all around the world. For prospective collectors, tobacciana is not one of the 100 most expensive fields of collectibles.
Dr. Lori Verderame (lancasteronline.com) believes that “Some of the most popular tobacciana collectibles are cigar bands, humidors, smoking jackets, tobacco tins, pin-up calendars featuring cigarette ads, cigarette machines, smoking stands, matchbooks, midcentury modern Zippo lighters, cigar store Indian statues and smoking automatons, with values from a few dollars to several thousand dollars and more.” Jennifer Boles focused on just one collectible: “Vintage cigarette accessories are shedding the stigma associated with lighting up, and becoming highly addictive décor” (“Smoking Trinkets: The New Collectibles,” wsj.com). While the number of smokers may be dwindling, collecting tobacciana continues to be as popular as ever and many non-smokers are attracted to these collectibles. There’s something for everyone, and the challenge is to decide which items to collect. If any of this stuff appeals to you, join the Antique Advertising Association of America to learn more, and you’ll discover that there are specialized clubs all around the world. For prospective collectors, tobacciana is not one of the 100 most expensive fields of collectibles.
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[[File:TocaccianaExposed-21-PorcelainPorn.JPG|thumb|German porcelain porn. Courtesy, Collection Amsterdam Pipe Museum]]The choices of motif or theme, configuration, relief ornamentation, and images for German porcelain pipes were literally endless. Ideas came from a broad expanse of inspiration, including the humorous, the ornamental, and the occasional metamorphic, suggestive, erotic, pornographic, and scatological. With the discovery of transfer printing in colors during the middle-to-late 19th century, this process began to rapidly supersede the more laborious process of hand-painting.  
[[File:TocaccianaExposed-21-PorcelainPorn.JPG|thumb|German porcelain pipe with erotic transfer printing. Courtesy, Collection Amsterdam Pipe Museum]]The choices of motif or theme, configuration, relief ornamentation, and images for German porcelain pipes were literally endless. Ideas came from a broad expanse of inspiration, including the humorous, the ornamental, and the occasional metamorphic, suggestive, erotic, pornographic, and scatological. With the discovery of transfer printing in colors during the middle-to-late 19th century, this process began to rapidly supersede the more laborious process of hand-painting.  


[[File:TocaccianaExposed--Illustration.JPG|thumb|left|150px|U.S. Patent No. 9491972B2]][[File:TocaccianaExposed-22-BriarPorn.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-briar carved wood pipes were are not exempt from this type of art.  
[[File:TocaccianaExposed--Illustration.JPG|thumb|left|150px|U.S. Patent No. 9491972B2]][[File:TocaccianaExposed-22-BriarPorn.JPG|thumb|right|Pre-briar carved wood pipes were are not exempt from this type of art.  
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*EROS, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1962, “The Cigar Box Sirens,” an illustrated article of ''Femmes fatales'' in full color
*EROS, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1962, “The Cigar Box Sirens,” an illustrated article of ''Femmes fatales'' in full color
*Giuseppe Ramazzotti, “Pipe Erotiche,” ''Il Club della Pipa'', October 1970
*Giuseppe Ramazzotti, “Pipe Erotiche,” ''Il Club della Pipa'', October 1970
*The Collector’s Academy, ''Tabacco & Eros. Erotic Collectibles for Smokers. Collezionismo Erotico per Fumatori'' (2016); and Tobacco & Eros, Vol. 2 (2017)  
*The Collector’s Academy, ''Tobacco & Eros. Erotic Collectibles for Smokers. Collezionismo Erotico per Fumatori'' (2016); and ''Tobacco & Eros'', Vol. 2 (2017)  
*Véronique Villemin, ''Eros Secret'' (2006). It contains a chapter illustrating erotic pipes, written
*Véronique Villemin, ''Eros Secret'' (2006). It contains a chapter illustrating erotic pipes, written by Dominque Delalande
by Dominque Delalande


To conclude, erotica is any artistic work that deals substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter. Pornography can be described as a something creative, but of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. The distinction between the two is often difficult to identify, if not completely impossible. Who decides what is art and what is porn? Art is in the eye of the beholder … it’s a matter of personal opinion. And pornography? It, too, is in the eye of the beholder. In Jacobellis v. Ohio in 1964, when asked to describe his test for obscenity, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart opined: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material … But I know it when I see it”; essentially, his statement was a non-definition of obscenity.
To conclude, erotica is any artistic work that deals substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter. Pornography can be described as a something creative, but of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. The distinction between the two is often difficult to identify, if not completely impossible. Who decides what is art and what is porn? Art is in the eye of the beholder … it’s a matter of personal opinion. And pornography? It, too, is in the eye of the beholder. In Jacobellis v. Ohio in 1964, when asked to describe his test for obscenity, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart opined: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material … But I know it when I see it”; essentially, his statement was a non-definition of obscenity.
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