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Cigar Boxes

<>    The First Boxes

<>    Types of Boxes (overview)

<>    Wooden Boxes

<>          Earliest Boxes

<>          Nailed Wood Boxes

<>          Boxes of 12 & 13

<>          Boxes of 250

<>          Nailed Wood with hinges

<>          Boite Nature

+    How & Where Wooden Boxes were Made

<>          Labels and Trim

<>          Types of Hinges & Clasps               

<>Tin Boxes & Cans

<>         Tin boxes of the 1800’s

<>          Tin boxes of the 1900’s

<>          Tin Cans

<>          Tin Cans with paper labels

<>          Tin Trunks

<>          Tin Pocket Packs

<>          Flat 10’s

<>         Wm. Vogel, tinmaker

<>          P. Lorillard’s use of tin

<>          Bayuk Bros. use of tin

<>          Dutch tin before WWI

<>          Dutch tin after WWI

+     How Tin Boxes were Made

<>   Boxes Made of Other Materials

<>       Metal Boxes (other than tin)

<>       Cardboard Boxes

<>       Glass Boxes and Jars

<>       Plastic Boxes

<>Novelty Boxes

<>         Types of Novelty boxes, an overview

<>     Book Shaped boxes

<>Log Cabins

<>         Uprights

<>         Mugs & Bottles

<>Game Boxes

<>Boudoir Boxes of the 1930’s

<>         Assortment & “Your Choice” Boxes

<>Cigarillos

<>         Jumbos

<>         Cuban Chests

<> Box Patents

<> Cigar Patents

<> Other Patents

Frauds, Fakes & Fantasy items not cigar

<>English fantasy tins

<>Hambone fakes

<>Boyish Babe fraud

<>Trinidad girlie cards

<>Coca-Cola cigar band

<>Princess Mary tin

<>Miscellaneous real and unreal

<>Tobacco boxes

<>Boxes but not cigar

Dating Cigar Boxes

<>          Easy Dating

<>Using Government Regulations to Date

<>         Tax Stamps

<>         Import Stamps

<>         Factory ID’s

<>         Caution Notices

<>         Tax Class Notices

<>         NRA

<>         Made in Bond Stamps

<>Other Ways to Date

<>         CMIU Blue Label

<>         1880-1887-1912 Misleading dates

Dating Boxes by Style

Dating Foreign

<>         Dating Cuban Boxes

<>         Dating Canadian Boxes

<>         Identifying Canadian Factories

Cigar Labels & Birth of Advertising

<>The Perfect Package

Advertising Periods

1865-1878 Early

1878-1892 Early Golden Age

1892-1909 High Golden Age

              1910-1916 Late Golden Age

1917-1941 Machine Age

1942-62 End of an Era

1962-2008 Modern Boxes

<>   Copyright Infringement

<>   Worst Brand Names

<>   Censorship of Images

<>   You Can’t Say That (any more)

+    How Labels were Manufactured

       Gallery of Great Design

<>   Vanity Brands (using photos on labels)

<>Themed Picture Galleries

<>          Elections and Cigars

<>          Patriotism

<>          War

<>          Indians

<>          Newspaper

<>          Fraternal Orders

              Famous Men

<>         Sex in the 1880’s

<>         Sports & recreation

<>         Hunting-fishing

<>         Horse racing

<>         Baseball

<>         Railroad Gallery

              Theater

              Painters, Poets and Authors

+            Cowboys

<>         Christmas Gallery

<>         Health Claims Gallery

<>         Racism Gallery

<>         The Devil You Say

<>         Comic Characters

             Children

<>         Domestic Animals

<>         Wild Animals

<>         Water Animals

<>         Birds Gallery

<>Fruits, Flowers & Veggies

Local Landmarks & Events

Allegory

              Maps

Puns Jokes & Plays on Words

              Boats & Ships

              Spanish Themes

              Dramatic Type Faces

History of Cigars

<>     Cigar History 1460-1760

<>     Cigar History 1760-1860

<>     Cigar History 1860-1910

<>     Cigar History 1910-1960

<>     1863-1868  The tax wars

         1893-1911  The Tobacco Trust

         1900-1940  United & other chain stores

<>     Cigar Hand Tools I  quick identification guide

<>     Cigar Hand Tools II  expanded detail

+       Development of Machines

+       How Cigar Machines Work

         Sizes, Shapes & Blends

+       Flavorings

<>    Small Calif. town typical cigar selection 1890

<> White Labor Movement

<>    Censorship and Cigars

         Cigar Tobacco

              Planting & Harvesting

+            Types & Where Grown

              Leaf Dealers

         Promotions

<>           Giant cigars

                Parades

                Gimmicks

Premiums for Smokers

<>           Tin Tobacco Tags

<>           Playing Cards (cigar brands)

<>           Playing Cards (cigarette brands)    

<>           Playing Cards (European cigarette & tobacco brands)    

<>           Hard-A-Port Girlie Cards

<>           Cuban Girlie Cards       

<>          Miscellaneous Premiums

<>           CMIU Give-aways

                Buttons

                Trade Cards

                Insert Cards

                Tokens

<>            Felts & Flannels

<>            Silks & Satins

<>            Leathers

<>            Cigar Coupons

                Catalogs & Prizes

<>            Sheet Music

       Stogies & Cheroots Aren’t Cigars

       Women in the Industry

       Children in the Industry

<>         Cigar Maker’s Union  (CMIU)

History of the CMIU

<>         Union Blue Label Dating Guide

<>Give-aways

<>Artifacts

<>         Local Unions Location Guide

       Who were the Smokers?

              Men

              Women

<>Children

Who was the Cigar Industry?

Cigar Factories

Five Types of Cigar Factories

Gallery of Interiors

+Gallery of Exteriors

<>                Cigar Maker’s Hand Tools Part I: identification guide

<>                Cigar Maker’s Hand Tools Part II: expanded in detail

Wholesalers

How Business Really Works: A wholesaler’s Correspondence

<>How to Set Up a Branch Office Letter

+                   Gallery of Delivery Vehicles

<>Salesmen

<>          Salesmen

<>                 How Salesmen are portrayed on boxes

<>                 Street Vendors

+Premiums to Dealers

<>                Gallery of Advance Cards

<>                Gallery of Sample Boxes

<>                Cigar Box Openers

Retailers

Store Interiors

Store Exteriors

<>                How Cigars were Displayed in Counters

<>                Dummy Display Boxes

Mail order dealers

Retail Chains

United Cigar Stores

Shulte, Edwin, others

Coupons, Premiums & Catalogs

Cigar Box Factories

Selection of factories

Cigar Label Printers

How Labels are Made

How Labels were Sold

A few Important Printers

Where were the Cigar Factories?

New York City 1st, 2nd, 3rd District

New York State

Albany & 14th District

Binghamton, Syracuse & 21st District

Buffalo, Rochester & 28th District

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia & 1st District

Lancaster & 9th District

Pittsburgh & 23rd District

Illinois

Ohio

New Jersey

New England

Maryland

California

Florida

Indiana

Wisconsin

Michigan

        Minnesota

Louisiana

Iowa

Missouri

Kansas & Nebraska

West (WA, OR, MT, ID, CO, NM, AZ, UT, WY, ND, SD, TX, OK)

Who were the Major Pre-1960 Companies?

+Straiton & Storm  (became General Cigar)

              General Cigar   WHITE OWL, ROBT BURNS, VAN DYKE,                                           

                         WILLOW TIPS, WILLIAM PENN,

              Lichtenstein Bros. (became Consolidated, then Altadis)

Consolidated  DUTCH MASTERS, EL PRODUCTO

+H. Fendrich   CHAS. DENBY,  LA FENDRICH

American Cigar   CREMO, ROI-TAN, 100’s of others

+Bayuk Bros.  PHILLIES

              Yocum Bros.  Y-B

Sutro & Newmark    many

              Kerbs & Speiss  WELCOME [7702],

A.J. Golden  BLUE RIBBON, dozens of others

              Deisel-Wemmer-Gilbert  EL VERSO, SAN FELICE 

Sensenbrenner  SANTA FE, DEL CARA

              Lucke   TELESCOPE, ROLLED

              Congress Cigar Co.   LA PALINA

              Waitt & Bond  BLACKSTONE,

RG Sullivan  7-20-4

H. Traiser  PIPPINS

Graves  JUDGE’S CAVE

              Wolf Bros.  CROOKS

Jno. Swisher KING EDWARD,

              Morton Edwin  LORD EDWIN

              Brown Bros.  DETROIT FREE PRESS, others

              Carl Upmann  BOUQUET, VISTA [10037],

               I. Lewis: JOHN RUSKIN,

              Powell & Goldstein  FACTORY 370, NAPOLEON

              Brown Bros.  DETROIT FREE PRESS other

              Jose Escalante  CORINA, OLE, AURELIA

              Samuel Davis  FRONTIER, MUNGOES many others

              Brenheiser  BRENHEISER others

              Brooks and Company  INVINCIBLES

              Eisenlohr  CINCO, HENRIETTA

              E.H. Gato  BOUQUET, LA ESTRELLA others

+P. Lorillard,  MURIEL, WAR EAGLE, HEADLINE, CUBIST,

                        POSTMASTER, dozens of others

              F.R. Rice  many

              Jenkinson, Pollack, Marsh Wheeling,  many

              Thompson & Co.

              Cuesta Rey

              Roth, Brunner & Feist  WAR EAGLE [4404]

              Bondy & Lederer WHITE SPOT,

              W.H. Snyder  WILL’S TWINS [6426],

              J.C. Winter  WINTERS,

Cuba

    Cuba

       History of Cuba before 1898

<>   Corruption in “free” Cuba 1898-1960

        Life on a Vega (tobacco farm)

<>   Tobacco Types & Regions

<>   List of every known Cuban cigar brand

<>   Cuban Labels before 1868 vol I NCM

<>   Cuban Labels before 1868 vol II Thomas Wangler

<>   Cuban Labels after 1878

       Cuban marcas (and their top brands)

<>   Cuban Boxes

<>   Cuban Chests

<>   Dating Cuban Boxes

<>   Bibliography Books & Articles on Cuba in Hyman’s NCM

       Battle of Havana in 1762

<>   Cigarette Wrappers of the 1860’s

<>   Tour of the La Honradez Factory 1860

+Cigarette Packs

                Trade Cards

<>Cuban Cigarette Cards

Canada

<>How to Identify Canadian Factories

<>How to Date Canadian Boxes

<>Notes on Canadian Tax Stamps

<>Canadian Import & Excise Ports

Other Foreign Cigar Operations

Mexico

       Puerto Rico & Jamaica

Philippines

European Factories

       Dutch cigar history

Sumatra and SE Asia

       India

<>  Dutch Tin Before WWI

<>  Dutch Tin After WWI

Accessories

<>   Cigar Bags

<>   Cigar Cases

<>   Modern Humidors

<>   Cigar Lighters

<>   Pocket Cigar Cutters

<>   Desk Cigar Cutters

<>   Horns-Antlers-Tusks

<>   C.M.I.U. Give-aways

<>   Cigar Box Openers

        Cigar Store Figures

        Matches & Match-safes

<>   Ashtrays

Things Made From Boxes

<>    Gallery of Items made from cigar boxes

Fakes, Frauds & Fantasies

<>    Items that Look Like Cigar Boxes, but Aren’t

<>    Hambone Fakes

<>    Babe Ruth Fraud

<>    Princess Mary Tin

<>    Coca-Cola band that isn’t

<>    English Fantasy Tins

Glossary - Definitions

<>     Glossary of Cigar Related Terms through the Ages

Bibliography

Bibliography

<>     General A to Z about Cigars

<>     Cuba

<>     Directories

<>     Catalogs of Cigars, Labels, Tools, etc.

<>     Revenue Stamps

<>     Magazines

<>     Handwritten Ledgers, letters, documents

<>     Patents related to Cigars, Boxes & Accessories

<>     Growing Tobacco

<>     Collecting Tobacciana

<>     Poetry, Fiction, Legal cases, etc.

The Museum

<>  Who is Tony Hyman?

<>  Visiting the Museum in Person

<>     Tax Stamps the Museum Wants to Buy

<>  Other Items the Museum Wants to Buy

<>  If you want to Buy an item

<>     CIGAR MAGAZINE tour of the Museum

<>     Gallery of things made from cigar boxes

<>     Garden tour

<>  How to Take Perfect Pictures

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