Vintage Punch Cigar Brand Playing Cards (2 decks) with Punch Character Lapel Pin

This 2 Pack Punch Playing Card set and Lapel Pin is a collectible that any Smoker would be happy to have in their collection. These cards are factory sealed, and were available to dealers during a special promotion.  One of a Kind!

HISTORY
The Punch cigar brand is introduced and trademarked in 1840 – according to records – “by a German named Stockmann", and a legend is born. In 1960 following the takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries, the Cuban cigar industry is nationalized in October. Many firms are closed and owners of many of the most famous brands leave the island. For the first time, boxes of cigars produced in Cuba are stamped “Hecho en Cuba” instead of “Made in Havana-Cuba.”

In 1969, in the aftermath of F. Palicio y Compania, S.A. v. Brush, 256 F.Supp. 481 (S.D.N.Y. 1966), affidavit, 375 F. 2d 1011 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 830 (1967), production for the U.S. market of the Cuban brands such as Punch (among others) begins in Honduras. The case established that the Cuban company owners retained ownership of intellectual property assets such as cigar brand names and marks in the U.S. market in the aftermath of having their property confiscated by the Cuban government in 1960.