Trademark character, Honest Long Cut Tobacco from W. Duke & Sons Advertising Cards (HP1a)
Publisher W. Duke, Sons & Co. American
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From Honest Long Cut Tobacco Advertising Cards (HP1a). Issued in the 1890s by W. Duke & Sons, Co., Durham, N.C. and New York. Trademark character is pictured -- man with broad-brimmed hat smoking a long pipe. At top: Honest. Upper left: LONG CUT. Upper right: SMOKING/ AND/ CHEWING. Lower right: TOBACCO. At bottom left corner: W. DUKE SONS & CO./ THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO./ SUCCESSOR/ MANUFACTURER/ NEW YORK. Note: HP1a has been assigned as a "catch all" for advertising cards from a number of companies including Allen & Ginter, Duke, Goodwin and Kimball and covers a large number of and wide variety of subjects and images.
