c1890 Allen & Ginter Tobacco Reverse Painted Glass Sign Baseball Card related

Description

This Allen & Ginter, reverse painted glass, advertising store display sign measures 46" X  28.5". I believe this sign is circa 1890 or before.  The sign has a red background color with gold lettering. Mounted in a period wooden frame with dental molding on both top and bottom. This sign is heavy, it weighs 30 lbs.
Note:  Picture #4 shows some white paint on the side as well as some paint overspray shown on the gold trim shown in Picture #6. Most of the time when someone painted a wall they would paint around the sign rather than removing it from the wall. This is probably why there is paint on the sign.
Allen and Ginter was the Richmond, Virginia , tobacco manufacturing firm formed by John Allen and Lewis Ginter in 1865.
The firm created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading. Some of the cards in the series include Charles Comiskey , Cap Anson , Jack Glasscock , and Buffalo Bill . Since 2006, a revived version of the trading card brand has been issued by Topps .
The firm of Allen & Ginter was founded in 1865. In 1882 Allen retired, leaving Ginter, who retained the firm name despite taking on one John Pope as as new partner. The first tobacco company to employ female labor, by 1886 they had 1,100 employees, predominantly girls, who rolled the cigarettes.
The company offered a prize for the invention of a machine able to roll cigarettes (which until then had been hand-rolled). James Albert Bonsack won this prize with his 1880/81 invention. Because it was not completely reliable, all but one of the
large tobacco manufacturers declined to buy the machine. James Buchanan Duke did buy this cigarette rolling machine in 1885 and used it to great success; by 1890 he had consolidated his four major competitors, including Allen & Ginter, and formed the American Tobacco Company .The "Allen & Ginter Company" was no more, but Lewis Ginter sat on the board of the American Tobacco Company. The Amerian Tobacco Co dominated the industry by acquiring the Lucky Strike Co and over 200 rival firms. Antitrust action begun in 1907 broke the company into several major companies in 1911.
NO SHIPPING ON THIS SIGN---LOCAL PICK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!