P. Lorillard & Tin A National Cigar Museum Exhibit © Tony Hyman

P. Lorillard & Tin A National Cigar Museum Exhibit © Tony Hyman http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html 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. 1789 ad in the NY Daily Advertiser for P.Lorillard’s snuff mill includes offer of “common segars.” [8886] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#0 89197d37-fe0d-4740-a359-c82e0e56dfd0 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/misc8886/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/misc8886/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">1789 ad in the NY Daily Advertiser for P.Lorillard’s snuff mill includes offer of “common segars.” <br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[8886]</span></p></div></div> 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. [8359] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#1 0c0eeaa4-4651-4e53-bb3e-d3fe8cb14875 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/papernewB8359/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/papernewB8359/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">An 1893 ad reprints the original. It was not the earliest ad, but it was a tough claim to disprove.<br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">The 1789 paper carries another retailer’s ad that began its run a few weeks earlier than this one. <br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[8359]</span></p></div></div> A top selling Lorillard brand. Fact. 17 Virginia 1934. [3010] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#2 07f1e884-e16a-4d0f-bae5-4f3c8a15cbcc http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan10/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan10/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">A top selling Lorillard brand. Fact. 17 Virginia 1934.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3010]</span></p></div></div> Another popular Lorillard brand. Fact. 17 Virginia 1920’s [3083] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#3 5a37a257-8559-4c01-9667-71af92513e20 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan83/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan83/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Another popular Lorillard brand.<br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Fact. 17 Virginia  1920’s<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3083]</span></p></div></div> A 1920 Lorillard can. [3080] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#4 ded14c0e-81b2-4dda-a4e6-638835f7eb23 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan80/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan80/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">A 1920 Lorillard can.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3080]</span></p></div></div> 1923 version. [3082] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#5 749cbeb7-d8e0-41aa-b744-070ab9a55a77 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan82/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan82/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">1923 version.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3082]</span></p></div></div> Lids were frequently discarded by retailers, and various advertising and price tags used. [3081] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#6 e50984a5-a1cd-4fd2-bf93-6f62e853a0d3 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan81/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan81/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">Lids were frequently discarded by retailers, <br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2">and various advertising and price tags used.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[3081]</p></div></div> Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia 1917 [3084] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#7 d898a811-2cbd-49c6-8fbb-21b0d7d5bd2c http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan84/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan84/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia  1917<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3084]</span></p></div></div> Fact. 17 Virginia, 1920’s. [3087] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#8 b8e47701-d27c-4bbb-9a31-1eab465f55d2 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan87/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan87/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Fact. 17 Virginia, 1920’s.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3087]</span></p></div></div> Only rolled rim lid on War Eagles. 1920’s. Fact. 17 Virginia. [3086] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#9 74b19d83-8f36-4888-80c3-00b94f1beb50 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan86/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan86/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Only rolled rim lid on War Eagles. 1920’s.<br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Fact. 17  Virginia.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3086]</span></p></div></div> Price change at the onset of WWI. [3085] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#10 d6361415-68e4-4fab-b53f-45b3b5b6fe75 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan85/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan85/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Price change at the onset of WWI.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3085]</span></p></div></div> 1,000,000 cigars a day was Lorillard’s 1920’s output, probably by fully automated machine. [3088] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#11 0a8e969c-681d-4e98-a057-6b98e0b2476c http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan88/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan88/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">1,000,000 cigars a day was Lorillard’s 1920’s output, probably by fully automated machine.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3088]</span></p></div></div> Very well known brand before WWI. [2950] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#12 f68616b6-2a0c-4d1f-add8-e5211abab4bf http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin50/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin50/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Very well known brand before WWI.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[2950]</span></p></div></div> “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] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#13 1c4488aa-30be-4c35-bdd8-6113bf0e051e http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin53/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin53/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">“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]</span></p></div></div> Everybody bought out everybody. Patterson fell to the Tobacco Trust, and when the Trust was broken up Lorillard got the brand. [2951] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#14 1d8097de-38e8-434c-aa14-fee4c090ff22 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin51/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin51/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Everybody bought out everybody. Patterson <br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">fell to the Tobacco Trust, and when the Trust was broken up Lorillard got the brand.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[2951]</span></p></div></div> Three cigars were in paper sleeves together, a standard way of offering cigars priced in multiples. [2952] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#15 9531f2db-2ce7-4555-9ce6-0bd4d0c57c29 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin52/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin52/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Three cigars were in paper sleeves together,<br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">a standard way of offering cigars <br/></span></p><p class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">priced in multiples.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[2952]</span></p></div></div> Fact 17 Virginia custom packed in paper labeled vacuum tin for Stewart-Allen Co., NYC, 1950’s. [3044] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#16 62f57ed2-eccc-41d6-bb2a-f55664e050fa http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan44/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan44/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Fact 17 Virginia custom packed in paper labeled vacuum tin for Stewart-Allen Co., NYC, 1950’s.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3044]</span></p></div></div> Rare Lorillard can from brand made shortly after Lorillard was separated from the Tobacco Trust. Fact. 17, 2nd District of VA, 1913. [12981] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#17 f23fc804-c2fb-4eec-a4ac-87320d574409 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/12981/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/12981/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">Rare Lorillard can from brand made shortly after Lorillard was separated from the Tobacco Trust.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2">Fact. 17, 2nd District of VA, 1913.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[12981]</p></div></div> Rare pre-WWI brand made in Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia. [3060] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#18 9d7512db-f027-4c22-a010-dcbbbaa7dd3d http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan60/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/30tincan60/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Rare pre-WWI brand made in Fact. 17, 2nd Virginia.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[3060]</span></p></div></div> America’s single most common cigar tin. This flat 10/10 was used for 40+ years. [2991] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#19 ace71863-1d6e-4d97-89ed-b16c9102c9c8 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin91/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin91/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">America’s single most common cigar tin.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2">This flat 10/10 was used for 40+ years.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[2991]</p></div></div> 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. [2990] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#20 c7bdefe8-3039-4619-a043-beebab04cdb7 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin90/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/tin90/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">One of only two black <span style="line-height: 11px; " class="style_7">BTA</span> I’ve seen in 55 years.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2"> If you know the significance, I’d appreciate <br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2">your sharing it with me.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[2990]</p></div></div> Lorillard made the popular BETWEEN THE ACTS little cigars in the same factory, and probably the same blend, as these Miniatures. [2983] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#21 a18d13ad-07eb-4c16-98c7-daf3d3d0c471 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/ktin83/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/ktin83/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">Lorillard made the popular </span><span style="line-height: 11px; " class="style_7">BETWEEN</span><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6"> </span><span style="line-height: 11px; " class="style_7">THE</span><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6"> </span><span style="line-height: 11px; " class="style_7">ACTS</span><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6"> little cigars in the same factory, and probably the same blend, as these </span><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_8">Miniatures</span><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">.<br/></span></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="Caption"><span style="line-height: 12px; " class="style_6">[2983]</span></p></div></div> Brand based on a Broadway play from the mid 1870’s. Common in wood, rare in tin. Not in the NCM collection. [9932] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#22 90e9a402-93b2-46cd-b753-8250a903dc92 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/9932/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/9932/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_3">Brand based on a Broadway play from the mid 1870’s. Common in wood, rare in tin.<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_4">Not in the NCM collection.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[9932]</p></div></div> 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. [w0000] http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins.html#23 7d0058fb-db07-459d-9b2a-e384ea4240c9 http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/MURIELSENATORSTIN1.sized/thumb.jpg http://cigarhistory.info/Tin_box_types/Lorillard_tins_files/Media/MURIELSENATORSTIN1.sized/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_258_64"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_5">MURIEL<span class="style_9"> cans, like those of other brands, were frequently packed in cardboard for protection<br/></span></p><p class="paragraph_style_5"><span class="style_9">and ease of handling and stacking.<br/></span></p><p class="paragraph_style_4">Not in the NCM collection.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">[w0000]</p></div></div>