unkown brand from 1900s?
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Found an old tin from Serv-us brand cigars. states new york yet wrapper on cigars states Serv-us brand, Londers. The old catalog states La Serva cigars. 5 remain in tin and in pristine condition still wrapped with rice paper (?) and has the Serv-us coupons as well. looking for history/knowledge and if there is any value to them or should they hit the trash bin?
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Remember these?
All I could find with a brief search was this
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-serv-cigar-cent-tin-late-2108408181
And
La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress) is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico,
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/317644579959796371/
Here's some pages from a Serv-Us catalog.
http://www.timepassagesnostalgia.com/&page=12&pm=0&searchkeywords=advertising+Catalog&sin=m489
major grocery supply company in New York, see page 5
https://archive.org/details/servuscatalogthe00serv/page/4/mode/2up
From the 1914 catalog that Edward found above.
It's a padron? Sounds awesome.
For future reference, Londres is the size
They’re from the mid to late 20s. Made by El Dallo Tobacco Company in Maryland. The tin originally came with 50 cigars.
Those are pretty cool. I would put them in a ziplock with a boveda 62 and hold on to them for a while.
1/2 mill is a heck of a cash value for the coupon.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Fire 'em up.
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I'd smoke one....... Then again, I like to play expired mike roulette too.
1/2 mill means half of 1 then as a term. so its 1/2 of 1 credit.
to be honest they smell amazing so firing 1 up may happen.... then again maybe just save em for someone else
A mill is 1/10th of a cent or $0.001.
I miss RaiderMike too.