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Posted By: Scott M.

I am still searching for high resolution images of the Cobb and Doyle fans from this series to help complete a short article that I wrote for Old Cardboard magazine but, in the meantime, I thought I would share some information that I recently came across regarding this beautiful issue.







These fans have traditionally been listed in the SCD catalog as a 1910 issue and generally attributed to the American Tobacco Company.

This makes sense as you can make out a faint copyright statement on the lower portion of the fan when it is magnified but it is still hard to make out the exact year.



After doing a little research on the issue, I happened to luck out and find the following advertisements which show that the fans were only available for a limited time during the summer of 1913 (not 1910 as listed in the Standard Catalog) and also that these premiums can be directly attributed to the sale of Bull Durham Tobacco.

http://home.comcast.net/~croftscocoa/misc/1913_06_18_Mansfield_Ohio_Fan_Ad.pdf

http://home.comcast.net/~croftscocoa/misc/1913_07_31_Grand_Forks_Daily_Herald_Fan_Ad.pdf

I've already passed this information along to Don at SCD but thought the forum might enjoy the information and advertisements as well.

Scott