Real tobacco cutters don’t cut cigars

(National Cigar Museum) Highly collectible, some quite valuable, but these are NOT cigar cutters. You’d destroy just about any cigar you tried to cut with one. Until the 1930’s these tools sat atop the counter wherever plug (chewing) tobacco was sold. Plug was shipped in 8, 12 and 16 ounce long strips, and merchants used these to cut off ounce and half ounce pieces to order. Continued