Louisiana Type Cards Website

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by ZachS

Thanks, guys.



Seth - I can't go anywhere near NOLA with my wife unless I want to stop at Cafe Du Monde. Beignets are like crack-cocaine to that woman.

The beignets are okay but the coffee will usually burn the roof of your mouth off.

[Leon]

Great site Zach!!

Cafe De Monde? I had 3 (only I have seen) and sold 1...excuse the others, I am lazy.

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by Leon

Cafe De Monde? I had 3 (only I have seen) and sold 1...excuse the others, I am lazy.

I'm waiting for the day when you type "... and sold 2"

[buymycards]

Hi Zack, you have a wonderful website. It makes me wish I was on the balcony of the Cajun Cabin drinking a hurricane and eating a bowl of etouffee.

Great site!

Rick

[toppcat]

Zach-that is one well done website-kudos!

[curtis-cards]

I'm from N. LA and currently live in New Orleans. I'm very interested in these cards as well. This is a great site. Nicely done!

[ullmandds]

very nice site! i started focusing on louisianan issues a bunch of yrs ago...and I have quite a few. I love them! You may also want to mention that t216's have been found with blank backs...Goodwin sold a whole lode of them a few years ago.

[ZachS]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

very nice site! i started focusing on louisianan issues a bunch of yrs ago...and I have quite a few. I love them! You may also want to mention that t216's have been found with blank backs...Goodwin sold a whole lode of them a few years ago.

I'm going to look into the blank back T216's. Thanks for the heads up.


Also, I'm looking for some more info on Coupon Cigarettes. I'm pretty sure they were manufactured by the American Tobacco Company but I have some questions.

ATC broke apart in 1911 forming several different companies with 4 major players: Ligget & Myers Tobacco Co., P. Lorillard Co., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and a much reduced American Tobacco Co.

If T213's were distributed between 1910-1919, who would have had control of Coupon Cigarettes after the 1911 break-up? I'm pretty sure that the W.R. Irby branch of Ligget & Myers was the only one located in New Orleans so would they have been the ones producing Coupon Cigarettes?

I've tried searching the web for more info on Coupon but I just keep getting hits about cigarette coupons. I was just hoping someone here might have a definitive answer.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ZachS

I'm going to look into the blank back T216's. Thanks for the heads up.


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These are all from the Goodwin Auctions and the same find... I think it was someone close to their production that collected them..

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by ZachS

I'm going to look into the blank back T216's. Thanks for the heads up.


Also, I'm looking for some more info on Coupon Cigarettes. I'm pretty sure they were manufactured by the American Tobacco Company but I have some questions.

ATC broke apart in 1911 forming several different companies with 4 major players: Ligget & Myers Tobacco Co., P. Lorillard Co., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and a much reduced American Tobacco Co.

If T213's were distributed between 1910-1919, who would have had control of Coupon Cigarettes after the 1911 break-up? I'm pretty sure that the W.R. Irby branch of Ligget & Myers was the only one located in New Orleans so would they have been the ones producing Coupon Cigarettes?

I've tried searching the web for more info on Coupon but I just keep getting hits about cigarette coupons. I was just hoping someone here might have a definitive answer.

T213's

As stated before, these White-Bordered cards (cousins to the T206's) were all produced in New York City at the AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIC Co. Then shipped
to the COUPON cigarette Factory in New Orleans to be packaged with COUPON cigarettes.

It is my belief that the thin cardboard 1910 "COUPON" cards (T213-1) were never inserted in COUPON cigarette packs. Individual cards from this 68-card set
were included in Cigarette cartons containing 100's of cigarettes of this brand. The T213-2 and T213-3 cards were inserted into COUPON cigarette packs.


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T215's

The T215 cards were produced in New York City at the AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHIC Co. Then shipped to the Lorillard plant (Factory #10) in Jersey City (NJ),
and inserted in the Red Cross tobacco products. A large find of Red Cross cards occurred some years back in the Louisiana area.




T216

These cards were produced by the printing firm in the Philadelphia area that produced the various Caramel sets. These cards were then shipped to the Factory
in New Orleans which produced the People's Tobacco Co. brands (KOTTON, MINO, VIRGINIA EXTRA). Then the T216 cards were packaged with their respective
Cigarette brand.




Hey guys

Please realize that Tobacco or Candy Factory's (circa 1908-1919) had machinery and low-paid employees to strictly produce Cigarettes, or Caramel confections.
These Factory's did NOT have the artists, technicians, machinery, or facilities to print Lithographic picture cards.


TED Z
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