Dumb question on E98 "Old Put Cigars"

[Leon]

Originally Posted by wolf441

Good thought Frank!

Maybe cigars were sold at one of the stations on the line and for a short time, these cards were given out with the cigars??

Is there any evidence that these were made separately from the regular E98 candy issue and not just E98's that someone collected and stamped? Perhaps the same railroad station sold the E98 candy product and scooped up any discarded E98's, stamped and gave them away along with the cigars?? Now we have the makings of an urban legend!!!

My guess is that they were E98s, all made together, then whomever got them put the stamp on their backs.

[dstudeba]

Not the same, but similar. D card morphed into an E card.

[wolf441]

Thanks for the posts Leon and those are beautiful cards! I agree that tobacco and candy products (as well as bread, baking, etc) would be lumped together on catalogs and invoices. You'd have to think that any decent general store at the time would have sold all of these products.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by wolf441

Thanks for the posts Leon and those are beautiful cards! I agree that tobacco and candy products (as well as bread, baking, etc) would be lumped together on catalogs and invoices. You'd have to think that any decent general store at the time would have sold all of these products.

Of course they would. Even today both candy and tobacco are often distributed by the same company. Sometimes other stuff as well. The local one here in Lowell has been around since 1890. Used to be Notini tobacco, but changed to Notini and sons a few years ago.

Steve B