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A Tin Of Prosperity Island Cigarettes
The photographs in this entry are those of a tin of Prosperity Island cigarettes marketed by the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation (formerly known as Taiwan Tobacco & Win Monopoly Bureau, Republic Of China). This particular tin of cigarettes is of new old stock which means that this particular tin of cigarettes have never been opened before.
According to the company's website, the Taiwan Governor's Office took over tobacco in 1905, monopolizing 8 items (cigarette, liquor, opium, salt, camphor, matches, petroleum and the standardization of weights and measures before the retrocession of Taiwan.