Wrong catalog year on the Obak T212-1's?

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by Lobo Aullando

You might be onto something.

I did some digging via Google, and that led me to page 10 of volume 72 of the United States Tobacco Journal.



For those who can't get the image, it states that the name was registered as a trademark on August 11, 1909.

I also found some language that seems to originate from an auction house about the Obak brand starting in the 1860s, but I couldn't find an original source. (The key is looking for the John Bollman Company.) My takeaway is that it's not impossible that the name was resurrected.

I did search the John Bollman Company prior to posting this thread and from the information I found it seems the company might have been formed in 1899. The John Bollman Company also manufactured Imperials cigarettes and the first ads I found for them was in 1906

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The Imperials cigarettes are confusing because there was an Imperial Cigarette without the s that was made by a London Company starting in the 1880's I also found a 1905 ad placed by Jno Bollman looking for "girls" to make Imperial cigarettes.
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Further research revealed a suit filed by a Japanese company against the John Bollman company for using "white girls" as workers instead of "Japanese girls" that they had agreed on. I haven't found anything yet on the outcome of that suit.