Foiling Fakers in the 1800s

While we certainly have our share of fake products on the market these days, counterfeiting isn't a modern concept. In the 1850s sellers of run of the mill cigarettes were wrapping them up and selling them as expensive Cuban tobacco products. One Cuban cigarette maker, perhaps inadvertently, foiled the fakers by using the first series of lithographed labels to brand its products. Read more...