Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Humpday Triviola
The previous packaging for shipment of a certain commodity was a covering of pig's bladders. But in 1830 a London Banking firm initiated a new form of packaging that quickly became a standard and has remained a iconic standard ever since. What is it?
Tom
Re: Humpday Triviola
soda with their scotch?
Re: Humpday Triviola
Tonic for their gin?
No, but.....
....I think you both need a good old fashioned "3 martini lunch" today!
Tom
Shounds Lyke a Gud Idare
Hint
Given the nature of our forum one cqan assume that the new packaging was wood. And freshness of contents was important....still is.
T.
Cigars?
Re: Cigars?
I should have put in humidors
Re: Hint
Artists paints and pigments used to be packaged in pig bladders. But they were mostly replaced with metal tubes.
Re: Hint
Lard?
Re: Hint
wood shavings(aka seltzer) used in packing fruit like apples for storage and shipping?
Me thinks: Ken gets the cigar!
What makes Spanish cedar so popular. Nothing like a lard tasting stokey, :"(
Ken gets a Golden Cigar! Answer
Cigars were originally sold in bundles covered with pigs' bladders (with a pod of vanilla to improve the smell); then came the use of large chests, holding up to10,000 cigars. But in 1830, the banking firm of H.Upmann started shipping back cigars, for the use of its directors in London, in sealed cedar boxes stamped with the bank's emblem. When the bank decided to go, full-scale, into the cigar business, the cedar box took off as a form of packaging for all the major Havana brands, and all hand made cigars (though small quantities today are sometimes packages in cardboard cartons, and single cigars of many brands come in aluminum tubes lined with cedar). Cedar helps to prevent cigars from drying out and furthers the maturing process
Good going Ken!