Shawn, very cool. Thanks for sharing it.
I believe that's the first ad for Drum cigarettes ever posted here, and also the first image of a Drum cigarette package from the Drummond Company.
The question I guess is whether packs still looked like that in 1909-1911 when T205s and T206s were distributed in Drum cigarettes. The American Tobacco Company acquired the Drummond Company in October 1898, shortly after the time of your advertising pieces. The ATC never produced cigarettes at the St. Louis plant, only chewing and smoking tobaccos. So far as I know, Drum cigarettes were only produced at Factory 25 in Richmond, Virginia, though there's of course very suggestive evidence that Drum remained a St. Louis area brand. And in the 1909-1911 timeframe, Drums were available in either packages of 10, or as your picture shows, 20 cigarettes.
I've never heard of the J.T. brand of tobacco. It's it a little hard to imagine redeeming your tags (700!) for 12 free POUNDS of tobacco. Wow.
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