Royalty and Regent Street
Carreras soon opened another shop, this time in the Arcade in London's newly developed and fashionable Regent Street W1. Here he was visited by royalty from many lands and as early as 1866 he received Royal Warrants from HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Shortly after in 1874, Carreras received a Warrant from His Majesty King Alfonso XII of Spain. The hand-written sales ledgers of this period show accounts held by nobility, statesmen, men of letters and high-ranking service officers.
Some of Don José's tobacco brands became world famous - as well as Craven Mixture, there was Guards' Mixture, Hankey's Mixture and others. Over one thousand brands of cigar could be bought from Carreras, together with snuffs, cigarettes, pipes and all the usual requisites of the trade.
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