S.K.S, Stefanou/ Manufactured from the best Turkish Tobacco, Samos Turkey in Asia, c.1900, dim.16.5x 8x 6 cm. Original lithographed empty tin box for 100 cigarettes, with superb illustration, on front side, of a smoking Oriental woman with view of a port with sailing boats and text “ S.G.Bothas sole agent & representative for China, Japan, Hong-Kong and Singapore ( Shanghai). Back, detailled and colored view of “ Mosquée de Sainte Sophie” with an obelisc, 2 men of desert and a owl landed on the Moon and smocking a pipe. On top and inside medals and honours “ Gold Medal Internationnal Exhibition of Athen 1903”. On lateral side “ For the Imperial Japanese Government Only with Turkish & Japanese flags. Rusty but extremely rare.