PIPER HEIDSIECK Champagne Flavor - P528 - Plug Chewing Tobacco Tin Tag

Description

See photos for condition - this is the tag you will get. ID # is from the Schiffer Book for Collectors: "Chewing Tobacco Tin Tags 1870-1930" by Louis Storino. After several decades of collection these tags, I am selling my collection of over 500 different tags. The rare ones will be listed individually, the more common ones in plastic coin storage sheets of 20.
History of Tin Litho Tobacco Tags: The use of tobacco tags have become part of our American history and culture with their use beginning in the 1870's when demand for Southern tobacco skyrocketed after the Civil War and manufacturers sprung up like weeds. These tags began as a means of identifying each plug of tobacco to prevent the unscrupulous from selling a cheaper product as a higher grade due to consumer inexperience. Round wooden plugs were first used by manufacturers with their company information printed on them until the advent of the colorful tin litho tags. The wooden plugs/tags were placed in intervals throughout the entire length of the slab or twist, which permitted the retailer to cut the lump into small pieces to suit his customer with each piece holding its manufacturer identity. P. Lorillard was the first company to use tin tags but at first placed the tags under the outside leaf wrapper of the tobacco plug which caused injuries to unsuspecting customers when cut or bitten. Sellers thereafter began to put them on the outside of the slab or twist. Tag collecting was a popular hobby as early as the 1880's as well as being used in exchange for “premium” household items such as tableware, knives, etc. which was a key strategy in the war for market supremacy. The peak of the tags occurred between the years 1897 to 1917 and their use was made obsolete in the 1920's when machines began wrapping one-ounce bricks of plugs in printed cellophane. By then, paper coupons had largely replaced tags in exchange for premium items. These tin tags have since become highly collectible pieces of history with their colorful graphic details.
TERMS:
Auctions will be combined where possible to save you shipping. Shipping upon receipt of good funds. If payment is not received in 10 days from close of auction, transaction may be voided and item relisted at the seller's discretion.
MY GUARANTEES TO YOU:
(1) If you are not happy with your item for ANY reason within 30 days after you receive it, just let me know and send it back in the same condition. I will refund your bid price less any Ebay insertion fees (you would be out these unrecoverable charges and postage costs). (2) I try to make every effort in preparing an accurate description. If you feel I have made a material error in the item's description, let me know for a full, 100% refund.
Email me with any questions. Good luck bidding!
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