32nd Annual Carolina Country Store Featured Catalog Session Day 2
Fri, Aug 1, 2025 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 441
Antique Liggett Myers Tobacciana Ephemera Collection
Estimate: $100 - $10,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $1 |
| $50 | $5 |
| $100 | $10 |
| $300 | $25 |
| $1,000 | $50 |
| $3,000 | $100 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $100,000 | $5,000 |
| $300,000 | $10,000 |
Description
Early-Mid 20th Century; Original; 11.5” by 11.5” folder/binder displaying (107) tobacco related ads, photographs, receipts, felts, collector cards, labels, and related. Highlights to include: tobacco warehouse auction photographs, magazine artist examples, Christmas related promotions, labels such as Summertime, Growler, Dinner Bell, Plow Boy, Buckhorn, Tip-Top, Star, Horseshoe, Pick, Drummond, Fatima, collector cards such as Inventors, Cowboys, Track and Field, Boxers, Wild West, Native American, Flags of Nations, beautiful Native American cigar cloth felt rugs, collection of Big Planter’s Warehouse Conway SC tobacco receipts. This album is full of other advertising and promotional items. After extensive research, we believe this to be a prototype. This important antique advertising poster discovery was recently found in South Carolina from a former employee of Liggett Myers Tobacco Company. We encourage all advanced collectors to view these rare examples and possibly some prototypes. Please see photos.
Medium
Paper
Date
Early to Mid 20th Century
Literature
In 1913, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company was a prominent player in the US tobacco industry, having been reincorporated in 1911 after the antitrust breakup of the American Tobacco Company. While they initially focused on plug tobacco, they expanded into cigarettes, and 1913 saw them actively promoting their brands through various means, including premiums and advertising tied to popular culture
Condition
Very Good
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