Eugene Vallens & Co’s Choice Cigars Ribbed Glass Humidor Circa 1915. From what i could find this is roughly a 1915 Cigar/ Tabbacoo holder. Antique Eugene Vallens Choice Cigars heavy glass 18 paneled humidor with ornate lid. Bottom of humidor has cast markings Factory No. 6’50’ 1st Dist. –5″ in diameter and 5″ in height, no cracks in glass or lid— lid fits snugly. Vallens, who was a resident of this city at his death, founded Vallens & Co. Cigar manufacturers, in Chicago fifty years ago. The company was later merged with the Havana-American Cigar Company, of which he became president, and the sonsolidated concern was in turn taken over by the American Tobacco Company. Vallens collaborated with President McKinley on the tobacco section of the McKinley bill.
