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Posted By: Julie

Manuf'r No. 40
____District, N.Y.
May 1, 1887

(on the ends) Old Judge Cigarettes
Manufactured
Under Letters Patent Granted
Charles G. Emery
March 5, 1878

(other end)
BAND
Patented
August 6, 1878

(across the bottom of interior box)
These cigarettes are manufactured from Pure Rice Paper so prepared that the unpleasant odor and injurious effects of the Oil of Creosote from the burining is completely neutralized and the paper toughened to prevent its melting or breaking in ther mouth.

(above aNd below this orange band, in tiny gold leTTers)
Cigarertte box patented Jan. 29, '84. Whiting (?) Box Co., Newark, N.J.

Stamp is of Clinton, with a "20" to each side of him. "Series of 1883." "Act of March 30, 1883."

Oh yeah. Along the side of the interior box in pencil, someone has written "asorted"

Box is now getting put AWAY.