Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2025
A trio of collectible cigarette boxes from the second decade of the 20th century is offered including a pack that once held a desirable C57 hockey card. We have a 1910s Imperial Tobacco Sweet Caporal Cigarette Box / Wrapper, 1912-13 Imperial Tobacco C57 "Derby" Cigarette Box / Wrapper and 1910s Millbank Cigarette Box. The Derby box is exactly like one that was found with an Imperial Tobacco "C57" card inside! The outer cardboard box, which slides over inner shell that housed the cigarettes (six smokes), measures approximately 2" by 3". The box has a tear on the left edge of the outer sleeve, with the inner shell flattened, with most of the tax stamp still affixed. The Sweet Caporal box is diminutive at 2” x ¾” x 3” and originally holding 10 cigarettes, the package is designed with a sliding inner sleeve, with “Imperial Tobacco Company” over the reverse, guaranteeing licensed Canadian production. With an excise stamp from 1915, it most likely contained a tobacco card originally from one of the many issues produced later in the decade including the C18 Infantry Training set. Somewhat flattened, there is paper affixed to the reverse from scrapbook removal, with "The only king they sold at Wendover, Ont" handwritten to the top flap of the inner sleeve. Lastly, the Millbank box has a partial excise stamp that seems to be from the 1915 series, and it is unknown if some tobacco cards were inserted in this type of pack at some point. Currently flattened, the bottom right corner is missing, and there is writing on the reverse.
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