Antique 1800\'s Snuff-Bottle Related Advertising Cover~APPLEBY\'S RAILROAD SNUFF\"

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Antique 1800\'s Snuff-Bottle Related Advertising Cover~APPLEBY\'S RAILROAD SNUFF\" :
$18.00

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This is a Great, Antique Bottle-Related, Advertising \"Cover\" or Envelope, Featuring an Ad for the a Virginia Snuff-Tobacco Product, which was Marketed as early as the 1840\'s. \"APPLEBY + HELME\'S RAIL-ROAD MILLS SNUFF + FINE CUT Tobacco./ J. CHARLES APPLEBY/ G.W. HELME\" The Cancel looks to be from the 1880\'s. The Cover is in Great, Original, Antique \"Estate-Found\" Condition w/ NO MAJOR, CONDITION ISSUES/ NO FORMS OF \"DAMAGE\" NO TEARS, NO MARKINGS, NO WATER ISSUES. The top part of the Envelope, which was probably opened with a letter opener, is a little Rough, as to always be Expected. I have included two images of the earliest variants of the Appleby Snuff Bottle, this very, desirable, and extremely scarce early 1840\'s-Era bottleappears in aVery Dense, Copper-Amber Color, and has an Open-Pontil Mark, on the base of thebottle. Very Nice! THIS sale IS NOT FOR THE PICTURED ANTIQUE BOTTLES~ONLY offerDING ON THE ANTIQUE ADVERTISING COVER/ ENVELOPE! Thanks! George W. HelmeAlthough Helmetta was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1888, the community dates back to about 1880 when George W. Helme, a former New Orleans lawyer and Major-General in the Confederate Army, bought land between Jamesburg and Spotswood, which today is Helmetta. On this land he would build his snuff mill and 105 homes for workers. Helme named the town after his family surname (\"Helme\") and his daughter Antoinette (\"Etta\").
George Washington Helme was born May 18, 1822 in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Born to a poor family, George quit school at the age of sixteen and began working. He obtained a clerkship with Asa Packer, a wealthy contractor involved in the construction of locks, boats, and railroads for the transport of coal. In his mid-twenties,he moved to Shreveport, Louisana, where his brother lived, and became a member of theLouisianaBar in 1851. He opened a law office in 1852. In 1858, he married Margaret Appleby, whose father, Leonard Appleby of Spotswood, New Jersey, was working a snuff and Tobacco operation at Railroad Mills, which is believed to be the current site of the Helmetta snuff mill, and was also the site of a distillery in the early 1800s. The business had been established in 1825 and was among the earliest in the country to make snuff. In 1850, Appleby\'s Railroad Mills snuff mill had eight workers, and there were five buildings scattered over the area now comprising the Borough of Helmetta.

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Antique 1800\'s Snuff-Bottle Related Advertising Cover~APPLEBY\'S RAILROAD SNUFF\" :
$18.00