Antique Sweet Caporal Cigarette Celluloid Button Whitehead & Hoag Newark NJ c1895

Antique Sweet Caporal Cigarette advertising celluloid pinback button.

Front reads:
“It’s a Good Thing – Push It Along”
Sweet Caporal Cigarette

Manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, N.J.
Patent dates on back: July 21, 1896; July 17, 1894; April 11, 1893.

Dating to the late 1890s / early 1900s.

Early tobacco advertising piece from one of America’s most prominent historic cigarette brands.

Condition: shows age toning, edge separation and wear consistent with age. Original paper back remains intact. Please review photos carefully.

A scarce and desirable Victorian-era tobacco advertising collectible.