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chromolithography


Chromolithography is the technique of making multi-colored pictures, printed from a series of stone or zinc plates, the impression from each being in a different color.  
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lithography


A printing process invented in the very late 1700s based on the repulsion between grease and water. The design is put on a limestone surface with a greasy material, and then water and printing ink are successively applied; the greasy parts, which repel water, absorb the ink, but the wet parts do not.  
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lectore


Reader or lecturer in a cigar factory. Readers were typically paid by an assessment against each worker, though in some factories the lectore was paid in cigars, each roller donating a few as he left the factory. The custom of having someone read during boring tasks originated in convents and prisons and spread to cigar factories in the 1860s.   [..]
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bofeton


 Lithographed sheet of paper covering the cigars in a box. In the U.S. it is called a “flap” if attached to the front of the box or “floating flap” if not attached. Sometimes incorrectly called a “top sheet” by label dealers, a name more correctly reserved for the piece of box wrap used on the top of a cardboard box.  
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box wrap


 Form of contemporary cigar box labeling consisting of three pieces of lithographed paper which literally wrap around an unprinted machine-made cardboard box, covering all outside and some inside surfaces. This allows colorful labels to be inexpensively machine applied. Consists of wrap, top sheet and inner label.  
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caution notice


Notice required by the U.S. government to be pasted or printed on all cigar boxes from 1868 to 1959 which cautions retailers to destroy the revenue stamp and not to refill the cigar box once emptied.  
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cedro/cedar


Cedar, the traditional wood for cigar boxes because it is aromatic and impervious to insects.  Cigars en cedro are typically individually wrapped in an ultra-thin sheet of cedar then put in glass or aluminum tubes. The Central American Honduran cedar once used by the cigar industry is a hardwood, distinctly different from the soft North American re [..]
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buckeyes


Small cigar factories, usually family enterprises or those employing less than four persons, frequently only one. Sometimes defined as less than 10. Generally characterized by on-premises retail sales. Named after Ohio, the “buckeye state” because of that state’s mid-19th-century propensity toward tiny factories. (see also chinchales)  
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clear havanna


Cigar made entirely of Cuban tobacco but manufactured in the United States or elsewhere. The center of clear Havana production in the U.S. was New York City until the first two decades of the 20th century when clear Havana production became centered in Florida.  
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galera


The room in which cigarmakers work.   
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