3 Inner Cigar Box Labels, Original. Reynaldo Hole In Head, Nefta, And Blank Nice!!

3 inner cigar box labels, original NOT reproductions. Reynaldo ‘hole in head’, Nefta, and Blank Nice!!

Measure: 6.5 by 9 inches
206-293-3
Estimate: $35-$45

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1916 Reynaldo Cigar Co. is incorporated with a capital of $5,000 for “manufacturing cigars and cigarettes and dealing in and vending all products thereto relating.” Offices in NYC and most products manufactured in Gilbertsville, PA, east of Reading. Relationship of this company to the REYNALDO cigars imported from the Philippines in staggering numbers since 1910 is not clear, but the company ultimately uses a modernized version of the same label. In 1921, this company raised $250,000 of new capital, allowing it to expand its reach with its brands of cigars across the US.

An extract from an article published about promotional materials used by cigar companies. Pins for baseball players, worn by fans who only go the pin by smoking cigars.

“Luckett Luchs & Lipscomb; Manufacturers, Philadelphia. Rarely have so few words been of such great diagnostic value in the pinback hobby. Among the primary findings that this information led to was:

The three interlocking L’s monogram was not for Luxello, but for Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb. They created a synthetic name (Luxello) for the brand that was an alliterative match with Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb. The company was not based in North Carolina, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Luxello cigar originally cost 5 cents. The brand ran for at least 30 years. In 1940 you could purchase a box of 50 Luxello cigars for 87 cents. Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb received their business charter on August 11, 1909. They shortly thereafter decided to promote their company through the Luxello cigar pins, which came out about six months later before the start of the 1910 season.
What a good fortune that one of the two teams their pins promoted would go on to become World Champions that year, providing even greater recognition of their brand.

“Luckett” was W.S. Luckett, a powerful player in the cigar business. Originally, he was out of Kentucky. He was on the Board of Directors of the American Cigar Company in 1909, the same year he founded Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb. In 1902 he was stationed in southern Virginia running a tobacco operation. He would go on to get several patents related to the tobacco industry. “Luchs” was Monroe Luchs, the man within the company who oversaw finances. He was not a tobacco man. Within 15 years he was the head finance man of a New York based company that had nothing to do with tobacco.
“Lipscomb” has not been positively identified, but most likely he is W.T. Lipscomb of Durham, North Carolina. There was another Lipscomb active in the tobacco industry at the time who was from South Carolina. The role Lipscomb filled in the company appeared to be the operational or “hands-on” director of tobacco production.

The corporate headquarters of Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb was located at 710 Bulletin Building in downtown Philadelphia, and its primary production facility was in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania.
Why did Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb choose the Parisian Novelty Company in Chicago to make these visually stunning baseball pins? Most certainly Philadelphia had pin making companies as well at the time. Furthermore, they made some very beautiful pins celebrating the 1910, 1911, and 1913 World Champion Philadelphia Athletic teams. Indeed, they did, but the Luxello pins were ordered for production prior to the 1910 season. As such, maybe Luckett Luchs and Lipscomb had no reason to be aware of the local pin makers, especially since the tobacco company demanded a design reflecting elegant richness never witnessed in a baseball pin”.

Nefta Inner Box Label. This is n early embossed cigar label.
• 6.50 x 9.00 inches in size.
• Printed in the 1920s.
• Condition: a few small handling marks
This is an original cigar box label, NOT a reproduction, NOT an art print or color copy. Cigar boxes were ornately decorated with a larger inner label pasted on the lid, a top sheet that went on top of the cigars, for the inside of the box. The outer label, generally 4x4 size, and the smaller labels often referred to as nail tags, sealed the outside of the cigar box.

The ‘blank’ inner box label for cigars to be used by the retailers or distributors for any cigar that they are promoting. The blanks are rare as so few have survived.

Notes: Old stock, see images. Not reproductions!

$35 - $45

9" x 0.01" x 6.5"

Sports Memorabilia, Trading Cards & Ephemera, Product Labels

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