A Short History of Overland Cigars

(Cigar History Museum) ... Some time around 1910 S.S. Pierce purchased the OVERLAND brand of cigars from John Gray & Co. and adopted it as their house brand, available through all their thousands of outlets, which accounts for the proliferation of OVERLAND boxes available to today’s collectors. The cigars were originally hand made for them under contract by D. Emil Klein who rolled them for approximately 40 years in their large Factory #63 at 444 East 91st Street in Manhattan. Klein, established in 1898, is best known for their nationally marketed brands EMANELO, HADDEN HALL, and NOTTINGHAM, but like most cigar companies, produced custom and limited edition brands as well. Continued