BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CO., INVOICE TO BROCKMEYER CIGAR, ST. LOUIS, MO 1935

Description: BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO COMPANY, INVOICE TO BROCKMEYER CIGAR, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,FEBRUARY 1936. PLEASE NOTE: We love acquiring decades' old bank drafts, billheads, correspondence, stock certificates and other paper memorabilia - - as they afford us an opportunity to look back in time and experience some of what was occurring long ago. You might enjoy acquiring this item for your own collection! TYPE OF SCRIPOPHILY, EXONUMIA, NOTAPHILY꞉ Wholesale order for tobacco “twist” from the Brown & Williamson Company. COMPANY NAME꞉ Brown & Williamson Company. ADDRESS꞉ 1600 West Hill Road. CITY, COUNTY & STATE꞉ Louisville (Jefferson) Kentucky. FORM PRINTED BY꞉ American Sales Book Company, LTD., Niagara Falls, New York (founded in 1884). DATE ON FORM & YEARS OLD꞉ February 16, 1935. 88-years old. BUYERS NAME꞉ William F. Brockmeyer Cigar Company. ADDRESS꞉ 2101 South Broadway (this address is now a parking lot behind a small shopping center). CITY, COUNTY & STATE꞉ Saint Louis (St. Louis) Missouri. PRODUCTS PURCHASED꞉ 84 packages of assorted “twist” tobacco. Twist style chewing tobacco is created by using thin tobacco fibers that are twisted together into long, rope-like strands. VALUE OF GOODS꞉ $57.60 Based on an inflation calculator, what cost $57.60 in 1935 would cost $1,262.85 in 2022. TYPE OF DOCUMENT꞉ Business to business invoice. GENERAL COLOR(S)꞉ Off-white paper with red and black inks. MEASUREMENTS꞉ 8½” x 7”. EMBOSSING꞉ None. TAXATION/REVENUE/OTHER STAMPS꞉ Bares the NRA Membership logo. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was an agency established by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together. Invoice bares numerous rubber stamps. WATERMARKS ON PAPER꞉ Yes, but not discernible. FOLDS꞉ Appears to be one vertical (up and down) and one horizontal (left to right). CORNERS꞉ Upper left and lower left corners are “clipped.” Clipped corners allowed the form / sheet to orientate correctly in a stack. HOLES, TEARS, DAMAGE꞉ Some soiling, some minor edge tears. There are a number of “pin holes” at the upper left corner. Prior to the widespread use of office staplers, documents were actually pinned to one another using sewing pins. ADDITIONAL NOTES꞉ Not only will you receive the Brown & Williamson invoice, but you will also receive an original William F. Brockmeyer Cigar Company invoice to the Barlow-Moore Tobacco Company of Bowling Green (and Glasgow), Kentucky. It appears that Brockmeyer Cigar & Tobacco ordered the tobacco from Brown & Williamson and had it shipped by express to Barlow-Moore Tobacco (invoicing Barlow-Moore a week later). ABOUT THE BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO꞉ In February 1894, a new company, calling itself Brown & Williamson, hired 30 workers and began manufacturing tobacco products in a leased facility. In 1927, the Brown and Williamson families sold the business to London-based British American Tobacco. The business was reorganized as the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation. Manufacturing and distribution were expanded, and work on a new B&W factory in Louisville was begun. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation was a United States tobacco company and later a subsidiary of British American Tobacco that produced several popular cigarette brands. It became infamous as the focus of investigations for chemically enhancing the addictiveness of cigarettes. Its former vice-president of research and development, Jeffrey Wigand, was the whistleblower in an investigation conducted by CBS news program 60 Minutes, an event that was dramatized in the film The Insider (1999). Wigand claimed that B&W had introduced chemicals such as ammonia into cigarettes to increase nicotine delivery and increase addictiveness. B&W was headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, until July 30, 2004, when the U.S. operations of B&W and BATUS, Inc. merged with R. J. Reynolds, creating a new publicly traded parent company, Reynolds American Inc. Some of its brands had been sold earlier in 1996 to the British tobacco company Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco. SHIPPING COST꞉ Your shipping cost is calculated when checking out. To keep your shipping cost as low as possible, it's based on “DIM” (i.e. weight, package size and final destination). This item ships by United States First Class Mail or eBay International Delivery. Orders typically ship within one business day of your payment being received. This item will be mailed in a large envelope, box, cardboard tube or cardboard “sandwich” to minimize folding in transit. We DO NOT take historical documents and refold them to save on postage costs.

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