Antique cigarette rolling paper - $1,704

When we saw this, we went "what the hell?!". First, we thought these were a couple of fake auctions. We're still not sure...

These are two packs of vintage cigarette rolling paper from the 1930's. The People's Tobacco Co. pack on the left sold for $1,300, and the Kentucky Leader pack on the right sold for $1,704. Several other apparently rare packs vintage rolling paper changed hands in the last few weeks, most going for several hundred dollars. Wow, who would have known!

Tobacciana is the collecting niche that deals with everything related to smoking; advertising, cigarettes, cigars, labels, ashtrays, lighters, tobacco trading cards and so forth. Apparently, rolling paper can be a hot commodity as well.

We have tried to do some research on specifically this rolling paper and the rarity of it, but we could not find much useful information, and finding a good site about tobacco history and related collectibles in general wasn't so successful either. One nice site is the Cigar Museum, with a collection of articles about the history of cigars and several exhibits.

Tobacciana definitely is a collecting niche we need to observe more, to get an idea of what's out there and why certain items are valuable. We'll keep you posted!

Admittedly not a very informative post, but we had to expose this hidden treasure!