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Engraving of the Allen & Ginter warehouses in Richmond, Virginia, from an 1886 promotional book Virginia Brights cigarette box by Allen & Ginter, c. 1888. The firm of Allen & Ginter, born around 1880, was the rebranding of John F. Allen & Company, a partnership formed about eight years earlier by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter.
Topps also produces cards under the brand names Allen & Ginter [2] and Bowman. [ 3 ] In the 2010s, Topps was the only baseball card manufacturer with a license with Major League Baseball . [ 5 ]
Allen and Ginter in the U.S. in 1886, and British company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1888, were the first tobacco companies to print advertisements. [3] A couple of years later, lithograph pictures on the cards with an encyclopedic variety of topics from nature to war to sports—subjects that appealed to men who smoked—began to surface as well. [4]
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In 1872, Ginter joined John F. Allen to form John F. Allen & Company, which manufactured chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco and a small line of cigars. Shortly after, at Ginter's urging, the firm was the first to manufacture cigarettes with mild, 100% domestic bright leaf tobacco, grown in the Virginia and North Carolina piedmont, rather than with ...
The merger occurred on December 28, 1925, and First National Stores was incorporated. M. O'Keeffe's was the largest of the three companies with 330 outlets in 1922, in comparison with 307 Connor stores and 150 Ginter stores that same year. By the time of the 1925 merger, there were 650 M. O’Keeffe stores throughout New England.
On eBay, the bidding price started at $233.95, with bidding ended at a sale price of US$10,000. [63] Both the e-mail exchange and the picture have become internet hits. [64] In July 2009, Dornoch Capital Advisors placed England's Coca-Cola League One Side Tranmere Rovers F.C. on eBay without permission from owner and chairman Peter Johnson ...
The first set to name, market and produce pack-inserted sketch cards was the Defective Comics Trading Cards set of 1993 from Active Marketing International, illustrated by Mark Voger. Another early example was the 1993 Simpsons set from SkyBox International that had 400 redemptions for an "Art De Bart Card." [ citation needed ]