Selling Cigars
A National Cigar History Museum Gallery
© Tony Hyman
Latest exhibit added: May 14, 2010
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 gold-fields
The had ‘em in 1910, too
How many things can you give away?
coupons, coupons and more coupons
A SAMPLE OF OTHER EXHIBITS
ABOUT SELLING
THAT ARE COMING
God willing, inshallah,
and if 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 to whom
Parade floats
July 4 and other ad ops
Outdoor advertising
Everywhere a man was likely to go
Cigar store Indians
and other figures
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
The Cigar History exhibit is a huge under-taking that could take 5 or more years.
SELLING CIGARS is a part of that history. It’s not finished. At least another dozen more exhibits are part of the story.
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
