Kitchen in a Cigar Box – Half Scale

Nina Fair , 2026

This tiny kitchen with half scale (1:24) furnishings is housed in a 6-inch by 6-inch by 2-1/4″ deep old wooden cigar box, minus its lid.  I left it very rustic, with wooden walls and ceiling, but did add a piece of half-scale embossed brick paper for flooring.  The time frame would probably be early 20th century, and due to the size, the kitchen is not complete – there is no stove.  I bought the window unfinished and painted it – the lower pane actually opens.

There are a number of small scale artisan pieces in here that I was lucky enough to come by, including the fold-down table/settee, the small bench, the cabinet/hutch, the potato basket hanging on the wall, the tiny plant on the windowsill, as well as a few other accessories.  There is a copper cowboy decorative plate on the wall, and a neat pottery butter churn.

  • Nina Fair
  • Early 20th Century
  • Diorama
  • Artisan and Commercially Made Miniatures in a Wooden Cigar Box
  • 1:24

Fold-down table/settee and bench by Dan Zerkel, the cabinet/hutch by CJ's Minis, the tiny plant on the windowsill by Barbara Meyer Sr., the butter churn by Alex Meikeljohn and the paperboard "tin" box on the hutch by Melissa of Mosswood Minis.  I'm not sure who made the potato basket.  

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