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Your Price: $ 20.00
Item Number: puros84
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Circa: 1950
Condition: Used
Manufacturer: National Cabinet
This cigar box label with an eagle on a crest and bay behind it is marked National Cabinet . In black and white with gold seals it also says, Fabrica De Tasacos / Para la buena elaboracion garantizan los Fabricantes / Flor Fina / Puros..
Cigars were originally sold in bundles covered with pigs' bladders (with a pod of vanilla to improve the smell); then came the use of large chests, holding up to10,000 cigars. But in 1830, the banking firm of H.Upmann started shipping back cigars, for the use of its directors in London, in sealed cedar boxes stamped with the bank's emblem. When the bank decided to go, full-scale, into the cigar business, the cedar box took off as a form of packaging for all the major Havana brands, and all hand made cigars (though small quantities today are sometimes packages in cardboard cartons, and single cigars of many brands come in aluminum tubes lined with cedar). Cedar helps to prevent cigars from drying out and furthers the maturing process.
The idea of using colorful lithographic labels, now used for all handmade brands, wherever they come from, started when Ramon Allones, a Galician immigrant to Cuba, initiated it for the brand he started in 1837. As the industry grew in the mid-19th century, so did the need for clear brand identification. Labels or other illustrations also appear on the inside of the lids of many Havana and other brands. Boxes also usually have colorful decorative borders. The cedar box is sometimes referred to as a boite nature. Paper, usually colored, is normally glued to the interior of the box and is used to cover the cigars it contains. Finally, after being filled and checked, the box is nailed shut and tightly sealed with a green and white label (a custom dating from 1912) to guarantee that the cigars are genuine Havanas. The practice of using labels, usually printed in similar colors and with similar wording, to seal the box continues today for most handmade brands, Cuban or not.
In good condition it does have paper age marks and a small tear on the bottom which I have shown in my pictures and it measures 5 7/8 inches tall and 9 3/8 inches wide.
An addition to any Cigar Box Label Collection.
SH & Ins. will be quoted after orders placed. If you have questions please contact me and thank you for looking.
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