Vintage Tobacco Tin Can SIR WALTER RALEIGH Brown Williamson Louisville Kentucky

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5" Tall, 5" Diameter, Vintage Tobacco Tin Can, SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Brown & Williamson
Interesting Tobacco Worker's International Union sticker on the side.
Remnants of a tax stamp with 1926 date visible.
B&W was founded in Winston (today's Winston-Salem), North Carolina around 1894. In 1927, the Brown and Williamson families sold the business to London-based British American Tobacco. The business was reorganized as the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation. Manufacturing and distribution were expanded, and work on a new B&W factory in Louisville was begun. B&W had its headquarters in Louisville Kentucky, until July 30, 2004, when the U.S. operations of B&W and BATUS, Inc. merged with R. J. Reynolds, creating a new publicly traded parent company, Reynolds American Inc.