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Allen & Ginter

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Allen & Ginter
Company typePrivate
IndustryTobacco
FoundedCa. 1880
FounderJohn F. Allen, Lewis Ginter
Defunct1890; 134 years ago (1890) [1]
FateMerged to other companies to form American Tobacco Co.
HeadquartersRichmond, Virginia,
USA
ProductsCigarettes, Pipe tobacco
Brands
  • Dandies
  • Little Beauties
  • Perfection
  • Richmond Gems
  • Virginia Brights

Allen & Ginter was a Richmond, Virginia, tobacco manufacturing company formed by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter around 1880. The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading in the United States. Some of the notable cards in the series include baseball players Charles Comiskey, Cap Anson, and Jack Glasscock, as well as non-athletes like Buffalo Bill Cody.

The company merged with four other tobacco manufacturers to form the American Tobacco Company in 1890.[1] Since 2006, a revived version of the brand has been issued by Topps for a line of baseball cards.[2]

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History

Tobacco manufacturing

Engraving of the Allen & Ginter warehouses in Richmond, Virginia, from an 1886 promotional book
Virginia Brights cigarette box by Allen & Ginter, c. 1888

The firm of Allen & Ginter, born around 1880, was the rebranding of John F. Allen & Company, a partnership formed about eight years earlier by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter. When Allen retired in 1882, Ginter took on John Pope as his new partner but kept Allen's name. The first tobacco company to employ female labor, by 1886 they had 1,100 employees, predominantly girls, who rolled the cigarettes.[3]

Around 1876, the company offered a prize for the invention of a machine able to roll cigarettes (which until then had been hand-rolled).[4] In 1880, James Albert Bonsack of Virginia invented a cigarette rolling machine. Because it was not completely reliable, all but one of the large tobacco manufacturers declined to buy the machine. James Buchanan Duke did buy this cigarette rolling machine in 1885 and used it to great success; by 1890 he had consolidated his four major competitors, including Allen & Ginter, and formed the American Tobacco Company.[5] The "Allen & Ginter Company" was no more, but Lewis Ginter sat on the board of the American Tobacco Company.

The cigarette brands of Allen & Ginter included Richmond Gems, Virginia Brights, Perfection, Dandies and Little Beauties.

In 1890, Allen & Ginter, along with other companies of the United States (W. Duke & Sons, W.S. Kimball & Company, Kinney Tobacco, and Goodwin & Company) formed the American Tobacco Company, in an attempt to compete against British tobacco companies.[1]

Collectible cards

In late 1880s, Allen & Ginter began to release cigarette card sets as promotional items for its cigarette brands. The most part of the collection consisted of illustrated cards, but there were a few collections of photographs. Topics varied from birds and wild animals to American Indian chiefs or flags of the world. Allen & Ginter's baseball cards were the first of the tobacco era baseball cards ever produced for distribution on a national level.[6] The most popular and highly sought after of these sets is the N28 and N29 "World's Champions" series, released in 1887.[2]

Modern era

Allen & Ginter (brand)
Product typeTrading cards
OwnerTopps
CountryUnited States
Introduced2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Related brandsTopps
WebsiteAllen & Ginter collection

In 2006, Topps, a leading producer of confectionery and trading cards, resurrected the Allen & Ginter brand name to produce a series of illustrated trading cards, mostly focused on baseball sets. Nevertheless, the first couple of years of the product's inception saw the inclusion of several other sports figures such as Jennie Finch (softball), Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm (soccer), Hulk Hogan (wrestling), Danica Patrick (auto racing), Leon Spinks (boxing), Randy Couture (mixed martial arts), Misty May-Treanor (beach volleyball) and Dennis Rodman (basketball).[2]

Allen & Ginter cards began to feature hand-painted cards of current baseball players as well as various insert sets featuring standout athletes in other sports, pop culture icons, and historical figures ranging from Wee-Man to Davy Crockett and everything in between.

Non-sports trading cards issued by Topps included personalities such as Robert E. Lee, Thomas Edison, Billy the Kid and Andrew Carnegie, Davy Crockett, among others.[2]

From 2006 to 2009, artist Dick Perez was commissioned to hand paint special one of one insert cards in the style of Allen & Ginter. Perez created 30 art cards each of those years featuring the prominent stars of the game.[7]

As of 2012 the Allen & Ginter series remains one of Topps' most popular, highest selling brands in their product lineup.

The best known of the Allen & Ginter insert sets however, are the DNA Hair Relic cards. These highly lauded cards feature strands of hair from famous historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, King George III, George Washington and many others.[8]

Another popular feature of the Allen & Ginter product is the Rip Card. Invented by hobby shop owner and Topps consultant Alan Narz,[9] Rip Cards have been a part of every Allen & Ginter product since 2006. These cards allow collectors to keep the card intact or to rip the outer card to reveal an exclusive mini card available only inside of a Rip Card. These mini cards may be short prints, autographs, or cards made from metal or wood. Beginning in 2013, Topps began including a Double Rip Card, which had two inner cavities with mini cards inside. In 2019, Topps introduced a jumbo Box Topper Rip Card, with 3 mini cards inside.

Trading cards series

There were various cigarette card sets released as promotional items for these products. The most popular and highly sought after of these sets is the N28 and N29 "World's Champions" series, released in 1887.[2]

Some of the series released were (all illustrations, except where noted):

  • A25: World's Inventors
  • N1: American Editors
  • N2: American Indian Chiefs
  • N3: Arms of All Nations
  • N4: Birds of America
  • N5: Birds of the Tropics
  • N6: City Flags
  • N8: 50 Fish From American Waters
  • N9: Flags of All Nations
  • N10: Flags of All Nations 2
  • N11: Flags of the States and Territories
  • N12: Fruits
  • N13: Game birds
  • N14: General Government and State Capitol Buildings
  • N15: Great Generals
  • N16: Natives in Costumes
  • N17: Naval Flags
  • N18: Parasol Drills
  • N19: Pirates of the Spanish
  • N21: 50 Quadrupeds
  • N22: Racing Colors of the World
  • N23: Song Birds of the World
  • N24: Types of All Nations
  • N25: Wild Animals of the World
  • N26: World's Beauties [note 1]
  • N27: World's Beauties 2 [note 1]
  • N28: World's Champions
  • N29: World's Champions 2
  • N30: World's Decorations
  • N31: World's Dudes
  • N32: World's Racers
  • N33: World's Smokers
  • N34: World's Sovereigns
  • N35: American Editors 2
  • N36: American Indian Chiefs 2
  • N37: Birds of America 2
  • N38: Birds of the Tropics 2
  • N40: Game Birds
  • N42: Song Birds of the World
  • N43: World's Champions 2
  • N45: Actors and Actresses [note 1]
  • N46: Cigarette Making Girls
  • N47: Dogs 1
  • N48: Girl Baseball Players [note 1]
  • N49: Girl Cyclists [note 1]
  • N57: Actresses [note 1]
  • N58: Girls and Children [note 2]
  • N59: Girls [note 1]
  • N60: Actresses and Celebrities [note 1]
  • N64: Girls and Children [note 3]
  • N65: Girls and Children [note 4]
  • N67: Actresses 2 [note 1]
Notes
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Photographic cards.
  2. ^ For Our Litte Beauties cigarettes.
  3. ^ For Virginia Brights cigarettes.
  4. ^ For Richmond cigarettes.
Cigarette cards gallery

Further reading

  • Enstad, Nan. Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
  • Robert Sobel The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (Weybright & Talley 1974), chapter 5, James Buchanan Duke: Opportunism Is the Spur ISBN 0-679-40064-8.

References

  1. ^ a b c Porter, Patrick G. (1969). "Origins of the American Tobacco Company". Business History Review. 43 (1) (1 ed.). President and Fellows of Harvard College: 59–76. doi:10.2307/3111987. JSTOR 3111987. S2CID 145351728. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e 1887 N28 Allen & Ginter Baseball Cards on The Cardboard Connection
  3. ^ The industries of Richmond : Her Trade, Commerce, Manufactures and Representative Establishments. Richmond: Metropolitan Publishing Co., 1886.
  4. ^ Burns, Brian. Lewis Ginter: Richmond's Gilded Age Icon. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011.
  5. ^ Pritcher, Lynn. "More About Tobacco Advertising and the Tobacco Collections." Duke University Libraries. 24 January 2008. 10 April 2008.
  6. ^ Allen & Ginter Tobacco Cards (Archive, 27 Jul 2009)
  7. ^ "2006 Allen & Ginter Dick Perez Original Sketches". sportscard-checklists.net. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22.
  8. ^ "2010 Topps Allen and Ginter DNA Hair Relic Set Checklist". Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  9. ^ "Collectible card with cavity for containing inner item".

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