Gold Cigarette Case with a Map of Kuwait Engraved on Inside the Cover and a Cigarette

Object/Artifact

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L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness

Cigarette case: A gold cigarette case displays a map of Kuwait, with a cigarette inside.
Cigarette case

A gold cigarette case displays a map of Kuwait, with a cigarette inside.

Name/Title

Gold Cigarette Case with a Map of Kuwait Engraved on Inside the Cover and a Cigarette

Entry/Object ID

JI2025000262

Description

Gold cigarette case with a map of Kuwait engraved into the inside cover.

Context

Gifted to Mr. Jordan by Emile Bustante (dear friend and head of the CAT Contracting and Trading Company); give to Mr. Jordan on the occasion of his retirement. Cigarette holder inside was given to Mr. Jordan in 1960 by one of the sheiks in Kuwait (after being told to give up smoking by Dr. Debecky, he was told by the sheiks that he could look at the mock cigarette to "remind him of happier days in the past.")

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Kuwait

Continent

Asia

Parts

Count

3

Parts

Case, holder, cigarette