Selling Cigars
A National Cigar Museum Gallery
© Tony Hyman
OPEN EXHIBITS
The guys responsible for diversity
Salesmen as seen on Cigar Boxes
The industry looks at its own
“Look out, here I come!”
Colorful boxes of 12 & 13
How cigars were displayed in stores
Why there aren’t more boxes
The entrepreneurial spirit
Cuban, naturally
Some biggies
Smoking in the sticks
Premiums
How much
A SAMPLE OF OTHER EXHIBITS
ABOUT SELLING
COMING
God willing, insha Allah,
and the ocean don’t rise.
Store exteriors
Where could you buy a cigar?
Inside places cigars were sold
19th & 20th century displayss
Inducements
Offers and deals
Window displays
Once hot competition
Gimmicks
Who did what
Parade floats
July 4 and other ad ops
Outdoor advertising
Everywhere a man was likely to go
Cigar store Indians
and other figures
United Cigar Stores
coupons, coupons and more coupons
United premiums
160 redemption centers
Morton Edwin Story
The boy cigar roller
Mail order companies
Around for a long time
The Tobacco Trust
Their takeover try
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How
Work on the Cigar History exhibit has been started. It is a huge undertaking that I anticipate could take 3 or 4 years or longer.
SELLING CIGARS is a part of that history. It’s not finished. At least a dozen more exhibits are part of the story. While those are being written you can expect to see a number of other to be posted.
Future exhibits will take detailed looks at:
• Growing cigar tobacco
• Wholesale leaf industry
• Making cigars
• Where cigars were made
• Important manufacturers
• Cigar brokers and wholesalers
• Accouterments of cigar smoking
• State histories
and a lot more.
You are invited to visit every couple months to see which of the 300 exhibit chapters has been added.
New pictures are constantly being added to existing exhibits. Re-visit your favorites at least once a year.
Tony Hyman
