"Chesterfield" Marine ad and unopened pack

[rrobertscv]

The ad came from a "Life" magazine. The unopened pack came from a lady who found them in her dad's Army winter wool coat. She would not part with the coat.

 

[General Apathy]

 

hi rrobertscv, thanks for openeing up this cigarettes section. I would like to show a package addressed to a Marine in 1942, I understand the Marine was killed and the carton returned to sender. It is a full carton of 200 cigarettes, I know these green packet Luckies are very desirable in single packs but I dont intend to open the package, how you see it is how I acquired it. It brings home some of the tradegy of war. So heres to the boys of the American & British forces now serving in war zones today. Cheers ( Lewis )

[rrobertscv]

I would love to have one full pack of the Lucky "Greens". That is a cool item.

[General Apathy]

 

Hi All, This is a sales carton for anti-crush plastic boxe's for cigarette packs. At the moment the palstic boxes shown have USAAF wing and prop emblems stamped into them, there were other services , USMC and Navy, but I have used those in other display groups. Cheers ( Lewis )

[General Apathy]

 

Hi rrobertscv, thanks for the booster on the Green Luckies carton. Here are a bunch of WWII cartons and the packs that were in them. I have shown the single packs at the side but the two missing packs are in other displays at the moment. Of interest in the photo is the Chesterfields, across the top you can see ' Special Emergency War Carton'. regarding the two different packs of Camel both have the emergency paper pack in place of the silver foil paper, but one has a cellophane cover and one does not. This was also something else that happened during the war, the whole cartons of 200 were packed that way, its not that someone has removed the cellophane later. In the master carton of 200 with the cellphane wrapper there was a single sheet of paper advising the purchaser to ' Carefully remove the cellophane and keep, to use to protect other items such as paperwork and such' Cheers ( Lewis )

[Tom Pearcy]

From what source did the ad in post #1 come from?

[rrobertscv]

From what source did the ad in post #1 come from?

 

I think it came from a "Life" magazine

[Peace]

Does anybody have more specific info on the Dewitt-Clinton tax paper?

 

This is blue tax stamp found on cigarette packs between 1932 and 1959. I have recently learned that the serial number found on these stamps correlates with a an approximate date, where as '114' would date the pack to the period 1942-1945.I got this info from the Klokner book about personal items.

 

Also according to this book, non-metallic inner packs are a wartime feature, whereas metallic inners would mean they are postwar produced.

 

I would appreciate any further info.

[craig_pickrall]

The Raider ad appeared in several issues of LIFE Magazine and probably others as well.

 

This is from the FEB 8, 1943 edition of LIFE.

 

[craig_pickrall]

Smoking ads from LIFE.

 

8/17/42

 

 

10/20/41

 

 

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

 

7/21/41

 

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10/5/42

 

 

12/14/42

 

 

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

 

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

[craig_pickrall]

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

 

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

 

Undated but between 1941 and 1944

 

 

10/5/42

 

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3/23/42

 

 

9/21/42

 

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Pipe smoking gear

 

10/13/41

 

 

7/21/41

 

[craig_pickrall]

Some miscellaneous items of mine.

 

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[Bob Hudson]

How many of us started smoking in the military?

 

In boot camp when you were at parade rest in formation, they often gave the command "smoke if you got 'em." Well, the smokers whipped out the pack and kind of relaxed a bit as they partook of the evil weed. But we non-smokers had to stand there at rigid parade rest. After a a while it occurred to me that the smokers were getting extra breaks and that maybe I should check out this cigarette stuff. So I did. In the 60's they were $1.80 a carton at the PX so it was cheap and of course when they let us drink on base at age 18, smokes were a natural accompaniment to the alcohol. It took me 35 years and a heart attack to break the smoking habit, but even today when I watch a war movie and and the guys are curled up in the foxhole, shells and bullets whizzing overhead, I can still relate to when they pass around that last cigarette and inhale it with small pleasure.