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1920s PIEDMONT TOBACCO - DOUBLE-SIDED PORCELAIN FOLDING DECK CHAIR For Sale


1920s PIEDMONT TOBACCO - DOUBLE-SIDED PORCELAIN FOLDING DECK CHAIR
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1920s PIEDMONT TOBACCO - DOUBLE-SIDED PORCELAIN FOLDING DECK CHAIR:
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For sale is a near mint condition Piedmont Tobacco Double-Sided Porcelain Folding Deck Chair. When unfolded, this advertisement deck chair measures 32\" tall, 16\"wide, and 15\"deep. Both porcelain surfaces on this chair are in exceptional condition. Porcelain text reads: \"For Cigarettes Virginia Tobacco is the Best - Piedmont - The Virginia Cigarette.\" From the 1880s until the 1950s, porcelain advertising signs was one of the dominant forms of outdoor advertising because porcelain was so durable and weather-resistant. The exact age of this chair is unknown but is believed to date to the 1920s. A premium tobacco collectible. Agriculture has played a dominant role in Virginia\'s development since the establishment of the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. John Rolfe, a 17th-century colonist and husband of Pocahontas, introduced tobacco to England in 1614. Thereafter, tobacco was king in the Tidewater area colony throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. As Virginia\'s Piedmont region became more populated during the 19th century, the area became a major tobacco producer. The Piedmont region which grew bright tobacco also known as flue-tobacco consisted of Southside Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge mountains. This chair was manufactured by the Simmons Company, Kenosha, Wisconsin. In 1870, Zalmon G. Simmons opened his first factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He started out by manufacturing wooden telegraph insulators and cheese boxes. He branched into making bedsprings after receiving a patent for a woven-wire bedspring in payment of a debt. In 1876, Simmons became the first manufacturer to mass-produce woven wire mattresses. Simmons also made wooden folding chairs. These chairs were very popular for use in churches, schools, social halls and theaters.
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