Pierre Lorillard built his snuff mill in the woods of Manhattan in 1760, when woods made up most of the island. Though most famous as a snuff and smoking tobacco maker, Lorillard was also a huge cigar maker, packing cigars in tin, wood and cardboard. A history of Lorillard is in the works, scheduled for 2008. In the meanwhile, a selection of their tin packed brands if offered for your enjoyment.
Lorillard products are marked Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia before 1920, Fact. 17 Virginia after 1920.
P. Lorillard & Tin
A National Cigar Museum Exhibit
© Tony Hyman
1789 ad in the NY Daily Advertiser for P.Lorillard’s snuff mill includes offer of “common segars.”
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An 1893 ad reprints the original. It was not the earliest ad, but it was a tough claim to disprove.
The 1789 paper carries another retailer’s ad that began its run a few weeks earlier than this one.
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A top selling Lorillard brand. Fact. 17 Virginia 1934.
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Another popular Lorillard brand.
Fact. 17 Virginia 1920’s
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A 1920 Lorillard can.
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1923 version.
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Lids were frequently discarded by retailers,
and various advertising and price tags used.
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Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia 1917
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Fact. 17 Virginia, 1920’s.
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Only rolled rim lid on War Eagles. 1920’s.
Fact. 17 Virginia.
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Price change at the onset of WWI.
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1,000,000 cigars a day was Lorillard’s 1920’s output, probably by fully automated machine.
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Very well known brand before WWI.
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“Many years of experience and intelligence with economical management makes it possible to produce this famous smoke....It’s friends originated the phrase of The Cigar that increased the value of a nickel to fifteen cents.” [2953]
Everybody bought out everybody. Patterson
fell to the Tobacco Trust, and when the Trust was broken up Lorillard got the brand.
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Three cigars were in paper sleeves together,
a standard way of offering cigars
priced in multiples.
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Fact 17 Virginia custom packed in paper labeled vacuum tin for Stewart-Allen Co., NYC, 1950’s.
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Rare pre-WWI brand made in Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia.
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America’s single most common cigar tin.
This flat 10/10 was used for 40+ years.
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One of only two black BTA I’ve seen in 55 years.
If you know the significance, I’d appreciate
your sharing it with me.
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Lorillard made the popular BETWEEN THE ACTS little cigars in the same factory, and probably the same blend, as these Miniatures.
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Brand based on a Broadway play from the mid 1870’s. Common in wood, rare in tin.
Not in the NCM collection.
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MURIEL cans, like those of other brands, were frequently packed in cardboard for protection
and ease of handling and stacking.
Not in the NCM collection.
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