Something I picked up.....
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Something I picked up.....
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That is cool. Where did you find it?
I picked it up with a bunch of pipes, ashtrays and other tobacciana here in Tulsa. I haven't even gotten through all of it yet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Smokey
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Lots of cool stuff. Any idea on how old they are? 30's and 40's?Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
Maybe 30/40's through 1980's????....Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Smokey
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Only item I'm sure of is the Lucky Strike box. The slogan that stuck was "Lucky strike green went to war."Quote:
Originally Posted by droy1958
No Idea why that colour was needed for the war effort, other than maybe a paint colour used in the Pacific.
Any way, the green never came back.\ after WWII ended.
Luckies at the time were sold in both tins and cardboard cartons.
The Raleigh and Chesterfield packages could certainly be from anytime in the 1940's.
Lots of cool stuff there!
Noice.......
Very cool.
The box states it's a classic reproduction of the Lucky Strike green package, so that's repro :(Quote:
Originally Posted by allusred
But yeah, Luckies were green *until the war.
*EDIT: Found a snopes article all about Luckies during WWII. Apparently they changed from green to white packages, claiming a war need for green dye, but probably was a marketing thing.
Lucky Strike Logo Color Change : snopes.com
Haviing read the above, concentrated a bit more... have to admit that I really can't recall Lucky Strikes coming in a cardboard package at any time.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonecutter2
Nor can I remember seeing cartons of Lucky Strikes, back when they were green.
It's the tins I remember most my Grandfather kept a stack of them in his Humidor along with some Cigars and pipe tobaccos.
My Father smoked Chesterfields and Cigars. Only memories of my Grandfather smoking are of Pipes and rarely cigarettes or Between The Acts.
Tho I know he had some Perfectos and Panatellas in that Humidor.
This image is one I've posted before on Cigar Bum.
Posting it now because I think there's one item in the picture that relates to the "period" items mentioned in this thread.
On the right in the picture, below the open match box. s
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This Match safe is one of only a few items I have in any way related to smoking some time ago.
This belonged to my Grandfather who was a Pipe Smoker, Cigar smoker...and a Cigarette smoker.
He had and used this Match safe in 1878-1879, prior to going to work with Edison the following year.
It does have some age on it now.
The ashtray is the one I have used since 1973.