Selling Cigars

A Hyman’s National Cigar History Museum Gallery 

Text & images © Tony Hyman, all rights reserved



Latest exhibit added: October 19, 2012

 


17 OPEN EXHIBITS



Salesmen

The guys responsible for diversity




Salesmen as seen on Cigar Boxes

The industry looks at its own




Salesmen’s advance cards

“Look out, here I come!”




Salesmen’s sample boxes

Colorful boxes of 12 & 13




How cigars were displayed in stores

Why there aren’t more boxes



Cigar prices in 1900

Higher than you think




Street Sellers

The entrepreneurial spirit




Dishonest_salesmen

In the wild and wooly days




Auction_fraud

You can’t beat the system



The earliest cigar labels

Cuban, naturally



Giant cigars

Some biggies




Small-town choices

Smoking in the gold-fields




Movie_ads_for_cigars

The had ‘em in 1910, too



Premiums

How many things can you give away?



NEW

United Catalogs

Goodies for smokers




United Cigar and other Coupons

Coupons, coupons and more coupons




Redeeming United Cigar Coupons

How? By mail or in person




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’s Flying Cigar Store

Bringing cigars to you


Mail order companies

Around for a long time


The Tobacco Trust

Their takeover try


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 undertaking that could require five or more years to complete.


    SELLING CIGARS is a part of that history. It is 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 three 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

Please, if you enjoy these exhibits
and want more, TELL ME:
tony@cigarhistory.infomailto:tony@cigarhistory.infoshapeimage_34_link_0