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Featured here is a great image of the Old Virginia minstrel or quartet dance stage group. These characters are dressed for a play, and are surely characters in the play given their unusual dress or costumes. The Old Virginia Brand was one of the biggest selling tobacco brands for most of the 20th century era.
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Featured is a beautiful round tobacco tin can from the John Weisert Tobacco Company which was based in Saint Louis, Missouri. This can illustrates the Checkers Brand of tobacco, which was one of many brands the company made for years. This particular can is from about 1930.
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The Baxter Cigar brand certainly played their Drum Cigar brand well, as they created a advertising slogan saying they beat all. What a better connotation of beating your competitors with a drum? Certainly some early Madison Avenue Marketer developed the campaign which made sense. However, the Baxter Drum Brand is no longer with us. …
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Featured is a beautiful small tin sign from the Royal Fruit Cigar brand. The sign advertises their brand as being 5 cts. per cigar. This sign is from the 1900-1910 era.
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Featured is a beautiful general store tin shelf cannister from the Ojibwa brand of tobacco. Ojibwa was one of the larger selling tobacco cut plug brands sold by the Scott Dillon Tobacco Company, which was based in Detroit, Michigan. This can is circa 1920, and would have held 48 individual sale packets of their fine…
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Here’s a beautiful self-framed tin sign depicting the first mayor of Albany, New York, Peter Schuyler. He must have been so popular the G.W. Van Slyke & Horton Cigar Manufacturing Company in Albany made a cigar and named it after the cities former mayor. This sign is spectacular in color and clarity.
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Nic Nac Chewing Tobacco Tin Counter Display Can.
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Dominator Cigar Lighter and Cutter from M. Muller and Son in New York City. Quality Made Cigars!
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M-C-A 10 ct. cigar lithographic sign. Goldsmith, Silver Company, Boston, MA.
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Red Indian Cut Plug Tobacco Can. This tin is called a Knob Top Can. Made by the American Tobacco Company.
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Tin sign featuring the famous dog and cat in an Honest Scrap. Chewing Tobacco Cut Plug Product. Circa 1920.
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Early lithographic poster from the Honest Cut Plug Tobacco Brand. This poster shows the Presidential Possibilities in the year 1892
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