Featured is an early metal charger sign from the Berriman Brothers Cigar Company which was based in Tampa, FL in the early 1900’s. Their flagship brand based on the advertising I can find was the Jose Vila brand. This particular charger shows Jose in his Spanish garb, or uniform, dressed to the nines. Of…
The Sidney Dillon brand of cigars produced an amazing self-framed tin sign, shown here, to commemorate the famous horse’s record accomplishment. Apparently Sidney Dillon sired the first trotter horse who was able to break the then track record of finishing in less than two minutes. The J.B. Moos Cigar Manufacturing Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio…
This unique reverse on glass sign from the Niles and Moser Cigar Manufacturing Company proudly proclaims their brand Chancellor was the brand “Buffalo Bill Smoked”! However, at 2 for 25 cents, I highly doubt Buffalo Bill paid those prices back in the day when he was roaming the Western frontier. However, the Niles and Moser…
The F.R. Penn Tobacco Company in Wilkes-Barre, PA certainly made good use of this small metal tip tray from the 1920’s. The companies highly touted Banker Chewing Tobacco got the outer billing and largest letters on the tray, and was denoted as a “clean tobacco”. I can imagine a banker wanting a clean tobacco,…
The P. Lorillard Tobacco Company produced an amazing advertising piece with this self-framed tin sign advertising their London Life brand of cigarettes. The sign is unusual in that the design portrays smoking as something associated with the life of luxury. In this scene, it appears the man has just gotten done playing a round of…
Being an dog lover, I have always liked signs with animals illustrated on the signs. Sometimes a company incorporated an animal into the theme for no apparent reason, or at least a reason I cannot determine the rationale today. The Old Honesty tobacco brand certainly used the image of a Saint Bernard simply to tie…
The Beach-Nut Tobacco brand was certainly a household name for many years, becoming one of the biggest selling tobacco brands in the plug tobacco category. In the 1930’s when this bin was made it would be hard to walk into a general store or any smaller merchant and not find Beach-Nut Tobacco on the shelf. …
Everyone has heard the old adage, “they fight like cats and dogs” in their lives more than once. The Honest Scrap Tobacco brand made a worldwide brand famous by using that very image, a cat and dog getting ready to rumble, or, preparing for “An Honest Scrap” as their slogan stated. However, in the case…
I have always thought the idea of mixing a tobacco product with an flower was a strange marketing combination, but the Orange Flower Brand of quality cigars apparently was successful enough to make it work! Collectors today can often find the Orange Flower brand round cigar can fairly easily, helping illustrate the brand sold quite…
I found this early Leland, Smith & Company Mascotte brand of cigar advertising to say the least. Typically when collectors find early lithographs from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s they find very pretty woman or girls adorning the ads. The young woman featured on this lithographic appears to be a bit heavier than…