Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.
1883
GUSN-24195
Cardboard cigarette box w/ polychrome starburst and lettered label w/ paper insert w/ polychrome printed man and woman and offering to send an album of the "reigning beauties of the world." Box to hold 10 cigarettes.
cigarette boxes
cardboard
cutting (dividing)
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
Cardboard
Unidentified Paper
Cut
Transfer Printed
BOX, CIGARETTE
Printed on front: ""SWEET/ CAPORAL/ TRADEMARK/ REGISTERED IN THE U.S. PATENT OFFICE JULY 15TH 1873, JUNE 1ST, 1875/ MILD & EXTRA FINE/ Series 307 C B No 1/ FACTORY NO 567/ DIST. MARYLAND/ Kinney Broz/ MANUFACTURER N0 567, DIST MARYLAND NEW YORK"" Printed on back: ""WARRANTED/ THE HIGHEST CLASS OF/ SKILLED WORK AND FINEST/ SELECTED TURKISH/ AND/ VIRGINIA LEAF/ NONE ARE GENUINE WITHOUT/ FACE SIMILE SIGNATURE OF KINNEY BROS./ ON EACH CIGARETTE AND PACKAGE/ KINNEY TOBACCO COMPANY/ SUCCESSOR/ 10 SERIES 10/ 1883/ CIGARETTES/ U.S. INTER. REV./ DE WITT CLINTON/ ACT OF MARCH 3D 1883""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Kinney Bros. (Maker)
MD, USA
2.75 x 1.625 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.5078
Maryland (United States)
Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].
Sign up to our newsletter for our latest news and events
