Box, Cigar
Alberton Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | Box, Cigar |
| Type de l'objet : | Box, Cigar |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | T&E for Science & Technology |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Merchandising T&E |
| Matériaux : | Wood, paper |
| Numéro de catalogue : | 2005-008-017 |
| Numéro d'accession : | 2005-008-017 |
| Fabricant : | La Maginta - the Waldorf-Astoria Segar Co Ltd. |
| Marque de fabrique : | Le Maginta |
| Description : | Square, wooden cigar box with a colourful label on the cover depicting a young women. The label is an ornate paper oval shape with the detail of a woman inside. Green background. The inside of the box is divided into sections and has a yellow and white chequered paper lining. Worn paper seal around edges. Used |
| Commentaires : | Between 1870 and 1920, cigars were smoked almost exclusively by men. Brand names sometimes reflected male occupations, leisure pursuits, attitudes and stages of life. The competition to sell cigars at the turn of the 20th century resulted in the Golden Era of Canadian cigar box label art. Cigar labels became a show in themselves: they entertained, they amused, they titillated, they informed. Of the many thousands of cigar brands manufactured in North America between 1883 and 1935, some could only have come from Canada. The people and places depicted on their boxes, and the symbols used, are quintessentially Canadian. In 1897, a new issue of cigar revenue stamps was embellished with engravings of images of life in and around Ottawa. Revenue Stamps were issued in Canada in 1883, 1897, 1915, 1922, 1924, and 1935 ("Series C"). Every old cigar box had to have the FACTORY and IRD NUMBERearliest boxes, usually with 1883 tax stamps, they might be printed on a paper label stuck on the bottom, side, or end of the box. To meet Canadian demand, entrepreneur cigar makers, many from the British Isles, Germany, and Russia, established hundreds of factories, large and small, in cities and towns from Victoria to the Maritimes. They hired and trained local men, women, even children to hand roll cigars using domestic and imported tobacco leaf. Cigar makers were among the first workers to unionize in North America, and were among the most militant. In the United States, the Cigar Makers International Union was responsible for the first national wage scale, the first industry-wide 8-hour day, and a union label used in both the U.S. and Canada. The label, applied on the outside of boxes, assured buyers that union-made cigars were of a high quality, made by workers paid a fair wage under decent working conditions. In the early days, the finished cigars were tied into bundles and sold in bulk to vendors. or PORT NUMBER/LETTER of the manufacturer somewhere on the box. Up to about 1935, these were branded or inked on the bottom of the box. On the |
| Hauteur : | 2 |
| Longueur : | 10 |
| Largeur : | 10 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Étiquette ou poinçon : | printed inside the cover: "La Magnita, The Maldorf- Astoria Segar Co. Ltd." The bottom of the box reads, "Fact No 20 3rd coll Dist state of New York. Notice: The manufactures of the cigars here in contained have complied with all the requirements of law. Every person is cautioned not to use either this for cigars again, or the stamp there on again, nor to remove the contents of this box without destroying said stamp under the penalties provided by in such cases. is printed. Factory No. 20 3rd Dist. N.Y. 50." |
| Établissement : | Alberton Museum |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Alberton |
| Province de l'établissement : | Prince Edward Island |
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