10 CIGAR MACHINE CORP. OF AMERICA 20 INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CO. TOBACCO COLLECTION USA : MARYLAND. BALTIMORE. Shares of $10. USA : NEW JERSEY. Shares of $5. green, black. 1 AGAWAM TOBACCO CO. green, black. No 4522. Fine, clear vignette of a No 190. Shows the American eagle. cigar-manufacturing machine. Uncancelled. Photo. 20 January 1912 VF EUR 20 USA : MASSACHUSETTS. AGAWAM. Common 5 May 1924 EF EUR 90 Shares of $10. black, brown, red. Colour vignette of 21 LA FARINA CIGAR M'FG. CO. an Indian head. Gold seal. Photo. 11 COMMONWEALTH TOBACCO CO. USA : NEW JERSEY. Shares of $50. green, black. 1 November 1915 VF EUR 40 USA : NEW JERSEY. Shares of $100. green, black. No 6. Folds, edge-damage. No 76. Portrait of George Washington. Although 9 October 1923 F EUR 30 2 ALABAMA, SUMATRA & HAVANA inc. in New Jersey, the link of Washington, TOBACCO CO. Commonwealth and tobacco suggests the company 22 LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. worked in Virginia. Pin-holes. USA : ARIZONA. Shares of $10. orange, black. No USA : NEW JERSEY/DELAWARE. Less than 100 293. A confusing piece. Formed in Arizona (but for 14 March 1904 VF EUR 40 Common Shares of $25. orange, black. No 344135. tax reasons), but printed in Chicago (where the Vignette of company logo, Mercury and a classical office was?), and working in three places, all sources 12 CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO. lady with chemical equipment. The original Liggett of quality tobacco. Allegorical vignette of liberty, USA : DELAWARE. 100 Common Shares of $.10. and Myers was formed in the 1850s, and produced industry, etc. green, black. No 5663. Vignettes of globes and a snuff, later moving to tobacco. In 1899 it became 18 April 1911 VF EUR 50 tobacco leaf. Fold. part of the American tobacco trust. On the 26 May 1964 VF EUR 10 courtordered breakup of American Tobacco Co., 3 ALLES & FISHER, INC. L&M acquired factories making plug, smoking, USA : BOSTON. Less than 100 Common Shares. 13 CONTINENTAL TOBACCO CO. OF SOUTH twist, fine cut and scrap tobacco, cigarettes and blue, black. No 1296. Vignette of company logo, CAROLINA, INC. small cigars. Factories at St.Louis MO, New Orleans showing the company's J A brand of cigars LA, Durham NC, Richmond VA, Philadelphia PA, (probably also its cigar label). The plant in Boston USA : SOUTH CAROLINA. Class A Preference Chicago IL, San Francisco CA, New York NY and MA produced about 55 million cigars a year at this Shares of $5. green, black. No 121. Arms of the state Huntington WV. L&M made nothing other than date. Hole- and stamp-cancelled, not touching of South Carolina. A rare Goes certificate, for use by tobacco products until 1964, when the first adverse vignette. South Carolina companies only. reports on smoking appeared. The company then 2 September 1966 EF EUR 20 moved into whisky, other alcohols, cereals and many 6 December 1928 EF EUR 30 other products. 4 AMERICAN SEGAR MACHINE CO. 14 COWMAN CIGARETTE MACHINE CO. FOR 13 July 1966 EF EUR 5 FOREIGN COUNTRIES USA : NEW YORK. Shares of $100. purple. No 23 MAUREO TOBACCO CO. 124. Shares issued to finance the purchase of a New USA : NEW YORK. Shares of $100. black. No 51. York factory for manufacturing the machinery to We assume that the company was formed to exploit USA : DELAWARE. Shares of $10. green, black. make segars or cigars. Photo. licences overseas for the Cowman machinery. No 41. Underprint of eagle. 13 November 1869 EF EUR 80 16 November 1883 EF EUR 30 10 March 1913 VF EUR 30 5 AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. 15 D.A. SCHULTE, INC. 24 MCCORMICK CIGAR CORPORATION USA : NEW JERSEY. 100 Common Shares of USA : NEW YORK. 100 Common Shares of $1. USA : NEW YORK. BUFFALO. Common Shares $6,25. orange, black. No 268812. Incorporated in red, black. No 60187. Vignette of a lady reclining of $5. black, yellow. No 40. Vignette of eagle by the 1904, as consolidation of the American Tobacco against a lion. Folds and small holes. Operated retail Capitol. Printed in Buffalo NY, so the company Co., Consolidated Tobacco Co. and Continental cigar stores in most of the larger cities in the east, probably worked in that city. Tobacco Co. It used to own about 2/3 of the capital south, midwest and southwest of the USA. 8 February 1922 VF EUR 20 stock of the British-American Tobacco Co.Ltd Subsidiaries, for pipe and lighter manufactures. (Imperial Tobacco Co. owning the rest); a majority Later expanded into retail property ownership, with 25 NATIONAL SEGAR MACHINE CO. of the stock of American Cigar Co., the P.Lorillard holdings in Manhattan. USA : NEW YORK. Shares of $100. black, buff. No Co., the Corporation of American Cigar Stores, the 31 July 1950 VF EUR 20 59. At the time, 'cigar' was often spelled 'segar'. R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Co., the MacAndrews & Early piece. Forbes Co., the Conley Foil Co., and the Amsterdam 16 DWG CIGAR CORPORATION Supply Co., and a major holding in the American 20 June 1872 EF EUR 60 Snuff Co. Through the American Cigar Co., USA : OHIO. DETROIT MI. Less than 100 American Tobacco also owned the Federal Cigar Common Shares of $5. green, black. No 15646. 26 P. LORILLARD CO. Co., part of the Porto-Rican American Tobacco Co., Design of a farmer picking tobacco, with Mercury USA : NEW JERSEY. 100 Common Shares of $10, the Havana Tobacco Co., American Stogie Co. and and a goddess. The DWG company, of Detroit, specimen. brown, black. Tobacco-plant, and lovely Porto Rican Leaf Tobacco Co. manufactured leaf tobacco at Lima and Van Wert allegorical ladies. A very big name in U.S. OH, and cigars at Lima and Delphos OH. 13 February 1964 EF EUR 5 tobaccos.Inc. 1911, after the Supreme Court anti- 29 October 1965 EF EUR 25 trust break-up of American Tobacco Inc. to acquire 6 BERNARD SCHWARTZ CIGAR the old P.Lorillard Co. Acquired the Lorillard plant 17 FARMERS AND SHIPPERS LEAF TOBACCO CORPORATION (2 pieces) in Jersey City for the manufacture of smoking, plug WAREHOUSE CO. and fine-cut tobaccos, also the entire stock of USA : DELAWARE. 1.Preference A Stock, numerous other cigar- and cigarette-manufacturers specimen, brown & black. 2.Participating B Stock, USA : NEW JERSEY/OHIO. CINCINNATI. around the U.S. northeast and midwest. The specimen, blue & black. The company manufactured Common Shares of $100. blue, black. No 423422. Lorillard family was in the tobacco business for R.G.Dun & Bradstreet cigars. Taken over in 1929 by Square format, with vignette of the warehouses, several generations, but Pierre Lorillard (1833-1901) the Deisel-Wemmer-Gilbert Corp., cigar- beside the Ohio river. A train runs along the street, consolidated the business in his own name after his manufacturer in Ohio. and there is a steamboat on the river. Folds, with father's death. He was unusually successful in several splits (repaired). Uncancelled. Photo. EF EUR 40 expanding the business, but aggressive trading by 9 June 1919 VF EUR 60 American Tobacco in the 1890s drove Lorillard into 7 BURLEY TOBACCO CO. OF CYNTHIANA trouble, and he had to accept its 'invitation' to join 18 GEORGETOWN TOBACCO WAREHOUSE the combine, and Lorillard must have died a USA : KENTUCKY. CYTHIANA. Shares of $1. disappointed man. green, black. No 10. Vignette of two men in a USA : SOUTH CAROLINA. Shares of $25. green, library, and underprint of a tobacco plant. Kentucky black. No 79. Arms of South Carolina. Correct 19.. EF EUR 20 has always been a major producer of tobacco. storage of tobacco was essential to the industry. Uncancelled. Photo. Photo. 27 PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED 1 December 1919 EF EUR 50 1 September 1919 EF EUR 30 USA : 4 7/8% Debenture of $1000. orange, black. No 22559. Vignette of lovely lady. Philip Morris 8 CLUB HOUSE CIGAR CO. 19 INTERNATIONAL MATCH CORPORATION opened his tobacco and cigar shop on London's USA : DELAWARE. 10 Participating Preference Bond Street in 1847. The business prospered, and in USA : IOWA. DAVENPORT. Shares of $25. green, 1901 was appointed tobacconist to King Edward black. 205 x 270. No 13. Vignette of an attractive Shares of $35. blue, black. No 19349. Vignette of a heroic lady with a lion. International Match was VII. With this fame it started selling cigarettes to the house - perhaps the 'club house' of the name, also a U.S.A. By 1919 Philip Morris had been taken over woman and a beehive. Uncancelled. Photo. inc.1923 to acquire from Swedish Match much of the capital of companies owning 90 match- by American stockholders, and in 1929 the 18 February 1926 VF EUR 50 manufacturing plants in various European and other American part of the company became the countries. It also owned the entire capital of Vulcan manufacturer. It bought a factory in Richmond VA, 9 CHAMPION MATCH CO. Match Co., sales organisation in U.S. for the and began to produce its own cigarettes. After steady USA : NEW JERSEY. Shares. brown, black. No 63. products of the Swedish Match Co. President was expansion in the 1930s & 1940s, 1954 saw the Fine vignettes of a stag's head and a beehive. Ivar Kreuger, president also of Swedish Match. introduction of the phenomenonally successful Marlboro brand. In 1970 the company moved into 14 October 1902 EF EUR 30 After the collapse of Swedish Match, after the famous Kreuger frauds, International Match was put beer, acquiring Miller, and later into soft drinks, into liquidation. with Seven-Up. Photo. 21 March 1932 EF EUR 20 1 June 1959 EF EUR 20 28 PLANTATION TOBACCO CO., INC.