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Posted 11 months ago
Gerard
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Here we have various types of Flat Fifties cigarette tins with the “Lucky Strike” brand. Once the tobacco manufactures got on the band wagon and started to commercially make cigarettes in large quantities one of the many types of marketing was in the form of “Flat Fifties” tins. These were flat tins with one layer of two rows of cigarettes with a total of 50 cigs, hence the nick name, “Flat Fifties”. The 1st photo is an earlier version of the Lucky Strike Flat Fifties. Then we have a later version with the nick name logo “Flat Fifties” added to the tin itself. 3rd one is a “Merrie Christmas” (how they spelled it) one for the Holiday season. The 4th one is actually a cardboard version of the flat fifties. After they dropped the green packaging for the white to support the WW2 war effort. Many other tobaccos manufactures switched to cardboard also for the war effort and were never seen again in tin packages. If you wish to see more of these beauties check out the 2 links below
http://www.mygerardinc.com/aflat50.html
http://www.mygerardinc.com/index.html
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Hi, I was wondering if you know roughly when the 2nd tin pictured above was made?
I have the two of the ones in the second post that ill have to post someday, yours are in like mont condition compared to mone though lol, mine are readable though aha thanks for sharing!
Hey frank, the one in the second photo is from the 1940's
Thanks for the date. It appears that they made that box with "flat fifties" in the 1930s as well. I discovered that after my initial comment.
No problem Frank!!