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08-03-2016, 04:12 AM | #1 |
Herf Meister
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The Golden Era of Cigars
I love reading about cigars, and I really enjoy seeing how the industry evolved through the years.
I recently came across this page, and spent a long time reading it line by line. http://cigarhistory.info/Cigar_Histo...1878-1915.html You can find links to multiple other eras at the bottom of the page - older and newer. some of the gems: - 1878 British publication lists their selection of “the best Cuban brands”: Partagas, La Intimidad, Cabañas, Villar y Villar, El Gaucho, Henry Clay, H.Upmann, Caliope, Paz de China, Confederacion Suiza, La Española, A. Murias y Cia., La Carolina, Ramon Allones, V. Arango, Por Larrañaga, Jose Morales and Cabarga y Cia. - 1892 Photography and lithography were integrated by a screening process which broke the photo into a series of dots, making it possible to add photographic images to stock cigar labels. This is the Ben Day process, named after the man who invented it. - 1892 Electric street lights debut in New York City. - 1899 Federal tax officials confiscated 250,000 cigars from the largest factory in San Francisco that employed Chinese labor. The factory was re-using boxes and applying counterfeit Cuban stamps. - 1900 Consumption Statistics: Last year “Uncle Sam used more tobacco than any other nation, consuming 200,000,000 pounds; but the per capita consumption was far below that of Belgium, which led the world with 110 ounces to each person, to our 43. We stood fifth in per-capita use of tobacco. - 1903 Interesting cigar production figures for 1903 (rounded to nearest 100k): Manhattan shipped 589,600,000 cigars Tampa shipped 94,800,000 cigars Key West shipped 32,600,000 cigars Puerto Rico shipped 29,900,000 cigars - 1905 Census data reports 5,274 children under the age of 16 are working in U.S. cigar factories, up 60% from 1890. It's very interesting that Cuban fakes were already a concern in the 1800's. Some things don't change.
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