The Tobacco Trade Year Book 1937 ~ List of 28,000 Pipe, Cigar, Cigarette, Snuff & Match Brands ~ Tobacciana ~ History

Title: The Tobacco Trade Year Book & Diary 1937

Description: Boards are worn at extremities. Some splitting to cloth along front edge of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. One page has a closed tear. 168 pages plus the unfilled-out diary blanks. 10.25 x 8 inches.

Includes an Index of 28,000 brands of Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Snuffs, etc. (being the registered and unregistered names advertised in the ''Trade Marks Journal'' from May 1876 to October 1936), along with the name of the proprietor. For example: ''Squadron Leader (Tobacco) - Samuel Gawith & Co. Ltd.,'' ''Vytax (Vitaliised Health Snuff) - Gawith, Hoggarth & Co.,'' ''Yellow Seal (Cigttes) - B. Morris & Sons, Ltd.''.

Also includes an Index of Pipes, Pouches, Fancy Goods, etc., and an Index of Match Brands, as well as a compendium of the texts of all British Tobacco Laws from 1825-1937; a 17- pages article which surveys the work of the tobacco branch of the Government Laboratory which tested tobaccos, papers, and flavourings, etc.; a country-by-country overview of tobacco production; a register of colonial and foreign duties; trade statistics; and a list of the various tobacco-related trade associations. A few pages of brand advertising.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: Published by ''Tobacco,'' at the Offices of Industrial Newspapers, Ltd.
Place: London
Year: 1937

Keywords: United Kingdom, collectors, collecting, pipe tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, cigars, matches, history, tobacco industry,