>>1496258Not too much. Just that most of the common cigar sizes were laid down around this time, and smaller sizes were by far the most popular. The gigantic cigars everybody seems to smoke now are really an exaggerated 20th Century thing.
What I find most interesting about this era is it was the time when they were literally writing the rules of marketing. Every company had dozens of brands marketing to whoever might want to buy them, and were watching closely to see what sold better than others.
Soldiers, sailors, hunters, patriotism, sporting scenes, dogs, horses, scantily clad women, racial stereotypes-cigar makers threw everything against the wall to see what stuck during this time. Some of it worked, some didn’t, and everything people learned about marketing after this was built on what the cigar makers found out in this time.
