Selling Smoke
Selling Smoke

How Canadian Cigar Boxes Pitched Their Wares  1883-1935

Buyer Enjoy-Buyer Beware
 Good As Gold

One strategy attempting to sell on quality was to associate a cigar, in name or label image, with precious metals or money.

Cigar box label : Check  
Check
Trimmed nailed wood box (50)
Factory 2 IRD 8 Series of 1897
Rock City Cigar Co., Levis, Que.
CMC 2001.185.50 | S2002-6980
Tony Hyman Collection
Cigar box label : Solid Silver  
Solid Silver
Trimmed nailed wood box (25)
Factory 2 IRD 8 Series of 1897
Likely Rock City Cigar Co., Levis, Que.
CMC 2003.46.89 | D2006-01785
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