Beautiful Old Box: Baire

[El Presidente]

 

 

[NSXCIGAR]

Very non-traditional box art here. Very modern style, so I'd expect it to be post war. 1945-1960. 

It looks like the brand does go back and this was just some modern marketing. More traditional artwork:

And another band which is quite high quality.

 It reveals the name F. Solaun, and their history can be found here: http://www.jaberni-coleccionismo-vitolas.com/1C.5.999_SolaunHermanos.htm

The Solaun González brothers : Manuel , Bernardo , Francisco and José were Spanish emigrants who arrived in Cuba in 1898 and worked as vegueros in the city of Puerta de Golpe , Pinar del Río province.
They moved to Havana where they registered their main brand , La Nacional , and shortly after they acquired the Baire factory , located on the corner of Belascoaín and San Rafael streets, where the factory owned by the Spaniard Antonio Caruncho and its main brand, La Intimidad , had been located. .

In 1924 , they signed a lease contract whereby they acquired the operating rights of the prestigious H. Upmann factory from the British company Frankau SA , predecessor of the current Hunters & Frankau tobacco company , which two years earlier had bought the factory at a public auction . H. Upmann company to its founding owners, the Hupmann brothers. Frankau was mainly engaged in commerce and distribution, and given his lack of experience in the tobacco manufacturing industry, he decided to lease it to the company founded by the Solaun brothers , whose partners were the Spanish Francisco Fernández .and the Germans Otto Brades and Pablo Mayer .

It would be in the aforementioned factory in Baire where the Solaún company began to manufacture its cigars under the brand name H. Upmann . But, despite the fact that the prestigious brand was now in expert hands, they had economic problems that motivated the continuous transfer of the factory to smaller and smaller premises: in 1924 to San Rafael street with Belascoaín, in 1925 to Figuras street , in 1936 to Virtues 609.

Finally, in 1936 , the company that owns H. Upmann, Frankau & Co. , which a year earlier had been bought in turn by another British company, JR Freeman & Son , cancels the lease it had with them, but before the impossibility of managing the business from England, the following year he sold the brand to the company Menéndez, García y Cía .
The Solauns continued for a long time to produce only cigars under their La Nacional brand .

They owned the following brands :
Boccacio ,  Columbus ,  Don Montesino ,  Baire ,   Beauregard ,  Flor de Solaún ,  La Nacional ,    H. Upmann (1924-1936).