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Posted 5 months ago
KMG
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This Chesterfield $.05 Cigar sign hangs in my father work shop along with the Call for Philip Morris sign. The Philip Morris sign is a great ad from the 1950's that I am sure many of you can recall seeing. The Chesterfield sign I believe came from a pharmacy or apothecary shop that some how made it's way to my family. My father worked a for a tobacco company for 21 years than eventually purchased a tobacco shop that I had the pleasure to work in from my teenage years to early twenties. Here we collected tobacco memorabilia for years and still have much of it that I will be posting overtime. Currently, I am just trying to get a little more info on the chesterfield sign if anyone knows anything about it.
Tobacco and Smoking SignsTobacco advertising dates to 1789, when Lorillard Brothers began placing ad…