Mogul Cigarette Silk featuring President James Buchanan
Manufactured in New York, circa 1912-1915
Interesting ephemera featuring James Buchanan.
The complete set featured 24 Presidents and were collected then and now.
Mogul was an expensive hand-rolled all-Turkish cigarette that was started by an independent maker in New York City and by 1914 was owned by the American Tobacco Company.
After an anti-trust suit ATC was split into smaller companies with a focus on “standard cigarettes” that could be more efficiently mass-produced and sold at a lower cost. As the tobacco industry became more competitive, finer brands of cigarettes struggled in the marketplace and resorted to marketing methods such as these silks to retain their popularity.
Provenance: Donor found in family items while cleaning.
a. Appel Jeweler memo book: Two metal pieces with 2 paper 'pages' between them. A corner grommet keeps book together and by swiveling, pages are revealed. (Penciled notes appear on 3 sides.) Top cover has raised floral corner designs on 2 corners with engraved: "Compliments of/ Appel Jeweler/ Lanc. PA./ ? 1901"
b..Raub Supply Co. pencil: Painted yellow with red at one end. In red letters: "Quality Service for 52 years;" in center, in green letters: "Raub Supply Co./ Distributors/ Plumber, Tinners, Heating,/ Electrical & Industrial Supplies/ Lancaster, PA Williamsport, PA/ Harrisburg, PA Winchester, VA."
c. Edith Stubb's Dress Shop "Handy-Mender Needle & Thread Case." Opens like a matchbook to reveal a stapled cardboard piece with threads of white,brown, black and apricot wrapped around it. One side of cover shows exotic birds and flowers in red and blue. On the other side: "Edith M./ Stubbs/ Dresses, Coats/ Cosmetics and/ Hosiery/ 136 N. Duke St./ Lancaster, Pa./ PHONE 2-2169."
d. Coble's Tire Service Air Gauge Key Case (Box, Blue plastic guage and envelope containing pin, washer and screws for attaching keys to case along with directions..
e. Coble's Tire Service pencil, shaped like a long painted silver nail. In blue letters on pencil: "Seiberling Tires/ When you pick up a nail/ Dial 6284 Coble's Tire Service/ Lancaster, PA."
f.: "Edith M. Stubbs/Lancaster, PA" stitched in white on black satiny ribbon garment label.Two labels on once piece.
Booklet from Brubaker's Hatchery titled "Brubaker's Strain Single Comb White Leghorns, mating list 1914. 12 pages, 6 leaves. Publisher listed on back cover: Poultry Item Press, Sellersville, Penna.
Dogtags reading, "Ripple, Paul / 13202280 / Harold Ripple / 152 Wilson Dr / Lancaster, PA"
Metal chain (formerly gold in color , now fading) with small decorated plate: above the possible medical corps insignia (caduceus underneath a large letter A) the plate reads "2nd Lt. PH Ripple" and below, "MA-AUS"
Badge. Blue trim, golden underlay, a blue oillamp[?] crossed by blue and gold sword.
Badge. Blue and white with blue three-pointed symbol in center.
Badges. Similar V-shaped badges. One with black trim, olive green center, more frayed (perhaps older). The other has a navy blue faded trim with a beige center and is in excellent condition.
