Monday, December 6, 2010

Antique cigarette packs could fetch healthy price



(Charlotte Observer) Sure, he used to indulge the habit, but it wasn't the nicotine that turned Harry Kraemer into a cigarette collector.
The pretty packaging took care of that.
As a child growing up in Scranton, Pa., Kraemer, now 83, frequented the neighborhood pharmacy, where intricately designed cigarette packs filled the shelves. Continued

Illustration: Duke University Library Collection

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