Egyptienne Straights Cigarettes

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

On page 142 in Alan Hagar's Comprehensive Price Guide to Rare Baseball cards 1886 to Present, it shows an Egyptienne Straights Cigarettes box. Can someone tell me what came in these boxes? I picked one up today cheap.

I would trust Alan Hagar before I trusted Dick Giddings!

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Posted By: boxingcardman

cigarettes...

Thanks, you've been a great audience. Enjoy Molly Hatchet.

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: fkw

The only item with that brand I know of is the B-18.

Ive always heard they were folded twice and attached to the outside of the package with a seal/tape piece.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

If only cigarettes aged like wine, I'd have enough to get more T206's.

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Posted By: ROBERT ADAMS JR

I always found it amazing that something as substantial as a B-18 Blanket was actually sent along with a pack . Seems more like a send in and receive item .

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Posted By: ROBERT ADAMS JR

Boxingcardman , I really enjoyed Molly Hatchet when they opened for Bob Seger in "79" ! Do not get better then that !

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Posted By: fkw

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Posted By: 1880nonsports

liked to promote Eqyptian (also Turkish, oriental, etc.) fine and exotic tobacco strains. A few of these products included card and silk series in or around their packs/boxes. Egyptienne Luxury, Melachrino, Schinasi, Zira, Eqyptian Prettiest, Mogul, Omega, and finally Egyptienne Straights (I'm sure there are others - all I could think of) come to mind. The Eqyptienne Straights are indeed the source of the blankets. I came across a drawer full early in my collecting days in an antique shop somewhere in Mass.. The blankets were still attached to the package in the manner previously described. Unfortunately I had little interest then - would LOVE to have one now. The only other tobacco insert/premium I know of associated with ES cigarettes is their T45 non-sport card set. There are still sufficient quantities to be had of the medium sized clam shell box in the marketplace. Certainly an under 50. box empty.

edited to add the following: TY! for prompting me to take Hager's book off the shelf for a look again. Reading the musing and forcasts of my favorite shady dylsxeic Nostradamus always makes me smile


PS: ES also issued small cigarette "silks" during this time frame....

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Richard,

1- fkw's post shows Mr. Lipset's encyclopedia entry about the B-18s. He's dead on with that.

2- Somewhere in the archives here is a thread on B-18s, I posted a scan of a B-18 with a piece of that paper tape still attached.

3- That price guide of Alan Hagar's is one dangerous book. A fellow could open it, study it a while, and come away knowing fewer right things and more wrong things than when he started. I'd suggest dealing with it as I do listening to Rush Limbaugh... if I don't know how I feel about a certain issue, I listen to Rush talk about it, then I know I feel the other way.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

I only bought the Alan Hagar book because of the info on tobacco boxes. Alan Hagar was a crook, and he ranks up there with Dick Giddings. Alan Hagar autographed my book, and the value has remained the same. Worth nothing.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

That is reassuring good news, Richard. Sounds to me you'll be safe looking in that book, since you know what it is.

For some unknowing folk, opening that book is like a step into a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. A dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. A middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. One that lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. A dimension of imagination. The Twilight Zone.