Branding or Stamping on Cigars.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1887.
Branding or Stamping on Cigars.
EDWARD GUNTER Tobacconist, 22 Dalston Lane E. WILLIAM HENRY SOMERS
Commercial Traveller 79, Rushmore Road Clapton, E. do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows
Branding or Stamping in Gold, Silver or other Colours, either the Brands of
Cigars, names or addresses of Firms, on Cigars.
Branding or Stamping on Oigars.
We EDWARD GUNTER of 22ª Dalston Lane, Dalston, London in the County of
Middlesex, Tobacconist, and WILLIAM HENRY SOMERS of 79 Rushmore Road, Lower
Clapton, London, in the County of Middlesex, Commercial Traveller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to the Branding or Stamping on Cigars, (that is upon the

page_text: leaf itself) the names and (or addresses of Firms or the Brand of Cigars) and has for
its objects Protection against Fraud and Advertising.
In connection with the said branding we make use of the following, viz. :—
A Palette or Slab.
A Roller.
A Stamp bearing the words to be branded.
A Composition, the principal ingredients of which are, Gum, Oil Spirit, and, Gold,
Bronze, or Colour.
The operation is as follows, a small quantity of the Preparation or Composition is
poured upon the palette, and the same equally distributed on the said palette by
means of the Roller, the stamp is then pressed upon the palette and receives upon
the face of the letters the preparation, this is then stamped upon the Cigars after which
the Gold, Bronze, or Colour is applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is,
The Branding or Stamping upon the leaf of Cigars, for Protection against Fraud,
and as a means of Advertising.

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1887.
Branding or Stamping on Cigars.
EDWARD GUNTER Tobacconist, 22ª Dalston Lane E. WILLIAM HENRY SOMERS
Commercial Traveller 79, Rushmore Road Clapton, E. do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Branding or Stamping in Gold, Silver or other Colours, either the Brands of
5 Cigars, names or addresses of Firms, on Cigars.
EDWARD GUNTER.
WILLIAM HENRY SOMERS.
Branding or Stamping on Cigars.
We EDWARD GUNTER of 22ª Dalston Lane, Dalston, London in the County of
Middlesex, Tobacconist, and WILLIAM HENRY SOMERS of 79 Rushmore Road, Lower
Clapton, London, in the County of Middlesex, Commercial Traveller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention relates to the Branding or Stamping on Cigars, (that is upon the

page_text: leaf itself) the names and (or addresses of Firms or the Brand of Cigars) and has for
its objects Protection against Fraud and Advertising.
In connection with the said branding we make use of the following, viz. :-
A Palette or Slab.
A Roller.
A Stamp bearing the words to be branded.
A Composition, the principal ingredients of which are, Gum, Oil Spirit, and, Gold,
Bronze, or Colour.
The operation is as follows, a small quantity of the Preparation or Composition is
poured upon the palette, and the same is equally distributed on the said palette by
means of the Roller, the stamp is then pressed upon the palette and receives upon
the face of the letters the preparation, this is then stamped upon the Cigars after which
the Gold, Bronze, or Colour is applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is,
The Branding or Stamping upon the leaf of Cigars, for Protection against Fraud,
and as a means of Advertising.