One for the Man Cave: Tanner And Bliss Cigar Wrapping Machine 1870

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Tanner And Bliss Cigar Wrapping Machine 1870 Patented Model

 

An 1870 Tanner & Bliss patented cigar wrapping machine is a highly scarce piece of antique tobacco manufacturing equipment. Because no formal auction or digital database consistently catalogs these specific 19th-century models, valuation typically requires a specialized appraisal from an antique tobacco tool collector or a historical industrial auctioneer. In the late 19th century, the cigar-making industry relied heavily on manual labor. Early inventors and companies—such as Oscar Hammerstein (patented in 1883) and the Bonsack Machine Company (patented in 1881)—began racing to mechanize tobacco bunching and wrapping to increase production output. Patented models from small partnerships like Tanner & Bliss represent some of the pioneering, albeit localized, attempts to mechanize the delicate process of applying the outer wrapper leaf to a cigar.

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