Auction 80
Historical Militaria, Autographs, and Ephemera Auction, July 14 & 15, 2020
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Jul 15, 2020
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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1,400 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 1022:
"LIME KILN CLUB" RACIST CIGAR BOX LABEL
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Sold for: $240
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
312
Start price:
$
100
Estimate :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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"LIME KILN CLUB" RACIST CIGAR BOX LABEL
Lime Kiln Club 1883 cigar label by Mensing & Stecher of Rochester, New York. A lithographed 7.5 x 4.75 in. inner label with an insulting caricature image of a boisterous group of blacks at a lodge meeting. The moderator is trying to get order while some of the members talk and fight amongst themselves with one even holding a pistol. A trademark on the bottom of a whiskey barrel pictured is probably for the maker Ithaca Cigar Manufacturing Co. Interestingly, this label was based on a racial parody book by "M. Quad" (actually newspaper columnist and satirist Charles Bertrand Lewis) titled: "Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club". This label, the bottom trimmed, is listed as one of the "InStone 100" blue chip cigar labels. Estimated accordingly.
