This amazing tin comes to us from the American Tobacco Company, founded in 1890 by James B Buchanan Duke through a merger between a number of tobacco manufacturers. Dixie Queen started right around 1902. After the Black Patch Tobacco Wars – a sorted story I will not go into here – the U.S. government startedContinue reading “Dixie Queen Plug Cut”
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Jic Jac Soda Company
Jic Jac was a soda company that started in the early 1950s (incorporated in February of 1953) out of St Louis, Missouri and came in a variety of flavors. This 9” diameter celluloid button display was manufactured by Philadelphia Badge Company (est. 1900) sometime in the 1950s. ⠀⠀These celluloid displays were pretty much discontinued byContinue reading “Jic Jac Soda Company”
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