✅ SOLVED Weird Box

[JAWing17]

Hey everyone!!!

I found what I think may be a cigar box, but I can't find anything about the company listed on the labels on the box. Anyone seen this before? Or know what company this is? Here's the info on the box:

DIMENSIONS: L 10.5 Inches, W 4.5 Inches, D 1.75 Inches.

Text on top and bottom of the lid of Box: Key West Cheroots, Hand Made

Text on Side of Box/Front: Key West Cheroots

Text on Label: Phoenix Cigar Factory, (Then the label is damaged, only pieces of the disclaimer remain) "the manufacture continue have all the requirements of law the contents of this again or the stamp thereon the contents of this box without destroying the penalties provided by law in such cases."

Text On Bottom of Box: Factory No. 790, 50, 9th District

Thanks Folks!

 

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[Produce Guy]

try Googling Cheroots.I did and it has a bunch of pictures on Cigars.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The only websearch result I got for "Key West Cheroots" was the following webpage:
Guide to the Tobacco Collection, 1828-1987 and undated, bulk 1870-1955 | Collection Guides | Rubenstein Library
which indicates they were made by the R.F. Morris & Son Manufacturing Company of Durham NC. That company is listed in the Durham 1887 City Business Directory. The previously cited webpage lists an 1897 advertisement by that company for snuff and tobacco products. So, based on the "Key West Cheroots" websearch, your box can date sometime from the 1880s into the early-1900s (or perhaps a bit later -- I could not find any info on when/if the company went out of business).

However, I also did a websearch for the other marking on your box,"Phoenix Cigar Co" and the only result I got was here:
http://www.monroehistorical.org/articles/files/040111_monroeco.html
which says the Phoenix Cigar Company was located in Stroudsburg PA in the 1880s.
That webpage says "1880s — Cigar making in Monroe County was concentrated in the Stroudsburgs. The Phoenix Cigar Factory of Stroudsburg produced more than 500,000 cigars a year."

 

[JAWing17]

Thanks for the help guys! I'd done some googling and this is more info than I could find!

 

[cudamark]

Interesting....with all the legalese on the box, I would have figured it was much later than that.