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…
The Horse Shoe Cut Plug Tobacco was certainly creative with their advertising images over 100 years ago. I have seen several ads from the Drummond Tobacco Company in St. Louis, MO where the cut plug pieces formed an item in the advertisement. This great lithograph uses a play on words about how valuable time is by incorporating…
I was intrigued when I first saw this early cigar advertising poster from the Ricksecker Cigar Company in Kansas City, MO. Who was Colonel Rick, and what does he have to do with cigars? This image is very bright, and Col. Rick looks very distinguished. The name Rick certainly resonates well with the name Ricksecker…
This Victorian era lithograph features an image of the incredibly successful singer/actress Lillian Russell. In fact, The Seidenberg Company believed in her image so much they named one of their cigar brands after her in the late 1800’s. This particular image features the starlet in a fashionable hat, a pretty red and white dress, but…
Featured here are two large 48 count 5 cent packet containers for the well-known Sweet Burley Brand of smoking tobacco from the Spaulding and Merrick Tobacco Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. The Sweet Burley brand was sold in both Light and Dark versions, as denoted on each of the two colored cans. The Light brand…
BROTHERHOOD TOBACCO’S AD CAMPAIGN HELPED BRIDGE CLASS WARFARE! One of my favorite advertising pieces from the early 1900s comes from The Brotherhood Tobacco brand. What I like about this advertisement is the brand clearly tried to demonstrate a point that no matter what your class or background was, their tobacco brand would be “The Tie…
The G. W. Gail & Ax Tobacco Works was famous for their leading brand, Navy Cut Plug Chewing Tobacco. The enclosed framed factory scene from the Gail and Ax Tobacco Works Company features an impressive image of the massive structure which was located on Pratt and Barre Streets near Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. If…
The image of a young debonair American colonial man was widely used by the Robert Burns brand of cigars in the early 1900’s. The Robert Burns brand of cigars featured this image on larger charger tray signs as well as the featured vitrolite corner sign in the early 1900’s. Both signs are wildly popular today…
The P. Lorillard Tobacco Company put out some beautiful advertising back in the late 1800’s and into the early 1900’s including this tin sign for their 49 Cut Plug Chewing Tobacco Brand. The illustration on the sign shows a gold miner, with his pick and mining pan nearby. The 49 Cut Plug name is clearly…