Many thanks to Rocky Baranowski, from Arizona USA, for sending in these pictures from his collection.
These gifts would have been given away at trade shows and exhibitions early in the 20th Century.
Says Rocky: “I don’t know the scarcity of the 2 items attached, but thought you might want to post if you think others might find them interesting. The idea of making a cigar cutter out of a matrix to use at trade show giveaways in the early 1900’s I find quite ingenious.
Various “Inland Printer” magazines mention that Intertype gave cigar cutters made from their matrixes to visitors at trade shows 1900-1916+/-. I am uncertain of the time period in which Intertype used “lipstick lighters” as souvenirs.
