The history of Philadelphia’s Bayuk Bros. is scheduled, but not started as of yet. Meanwhile, since Bayuk was one of the two largest users of tin boxes, I thought you might enjoy seeing a selection of their tin packaging. Dates refer to accurately dated examples in my collection, not the 1st or last date of that particular design.
Bayuk Bros. & Tin
A National Cigar Museum Exhibit
© Tony Hyman
1923
Box packed 50/10. Note the cardboard dividers which turned the box into two side by side 25/5’s.
Factory 266, 12th PA (Western PA)
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1923
End label of Bayuk’s earliest 50 box.
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1934
Note ‘PHILLIES’ printed across Philadelphia on both the inner and end labels. Fact. 550 1st PA Philadelphia. Note NRA Stamp incorporated into design on front of the box (only in 1934-35). [3159]
1934
End label of 2nd style 50 box.
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1936
Inner remains the same design, though many different banners are used. End label combines
the old and new designs and name change.
Fact. 550, 1st PA Philadelphia [3157]
1936
End label Bayuk’s 3rd different style tin 50 box.
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1940
Inner remains the same with new banner but end label reflects name change, dropping old design entirely. Front changes to white lettering on the front. Fact. 550, 1st PA [3158]
1940
End label Bayuk’s 4th style tin 50 box.
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Inner lid and banner from 1940.
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Early 1920’s
Bayuk’s first type square 25/up.
Fact. 1574, 5th New Jersey.
Embossed can by Tindeco.
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1938
Later tin square 25/up.
Fact. 550, 1st PA (Philadelphia)
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1948
Cardboard square 25/up with tin lid.
Note wording change and absent price.
Fact. 550, 1st PA. [3148]
Early 1920’s
Heavily embossed square 50/up. Fact. 71, 5th NJ.
Antique dealer alert: Reds and blues tended to fade quickly in the hot sun or from window-light.
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1941
Tin square 50/up not embossed.
Fact. 1600, 1st PA Philadelphia
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Date uncertain, 1920’s? Fact. 630, 1st PA Philadelphia.
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See Unfair Competition: Trade Marks and Trade Names: Nature of Relief against the Use of a Misleading Trade Name Which Has Acquired a Secondary Meaning Harold Street, Michigan Law Review, Vol 38, #5 (Mar, 1940),
pp. 752-754 doi:10.2307/1282712
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Attractive and distinctive 25/5.
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