Over the course of a lifetime collecting baseball cards, Joe Davis thought he had seen it all. “We have had people bring in one Babe Ruth or two Babe Ruth’s. But you do not see 20 at a time,” Davis ...

For Alexander Botsay, the American dream came in a cigar box. A lot of cigar boxes, actually. And although Botsay hasn’t been able to make his trademark boxes in well over 100 years — having been ...

PINNACLE, N.C. — In this edition of Roy’s Folks, meet a man from Pinnacle who build’s cigar box guitars. As the name implies, Todd Neal builds many of his instruments out of old cigar boxes. He also ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — An unexpected discovery just happened in Dauphin County. Estate Auction Company was going through boxes for an upcoming sale, and in one of them was a cigar box containing ...

What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art probably is the latest one to become popular.

Next month, Samantha Fish and the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival present four days of music at two Crescent City Clubs (the fest runs Jan. 15 -18 at The Howlin’ Wolf and Chickie Wah Wah). For ...

Jerry Timson of Florissant plays on a guitar he made from an old briefcase during the St. Louis Cigar Box Guitar Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the Highway 61 Roadhouse in Webster Groves. He ...

For me, it was the cigar box that made this pitch for a new trivia board game a winner. That's the way it is sometimes. The reason why some p.r. pitches score bull's-eyes, and some do not, sometimes ...

Correspondent photos / Amanda Davis Al Frano of Boardman makes and sells his cigar box guitars throughout the world. BOARDMAN — By the time Al Frano was 5 years old, he knew he liked working with his ...