The convenience that self-lighting cigarettes offered never caught on with American smokers. This innovative, but low volume type of cigarette had a tip that was impregnated with chemicals. Similar to a match, when the tip was rubbed along the pack's scratch strip, the cigarette lit. Unicum Match-less Cigarettes were produced as early as 1882. Unicum stated that it was "The Greatest Novelty of the Age." Patent medicine quackery was in full swing during this gilded age, and manufacturers could make any claim they wanted. The Dr. Scott's Electric Self Lighting Cigarette was another early matchless smoke. Even though electricity had nothing to do with lighting a Dr. Scott, the fine folks that made this old-timer took advantage of the modern term because 'electricity' was a sure way to get a consumer's attention. Autolite and Monolite self-lighting cigarettes were marketed about 1903. Both brands were advertised with the slogan: "Just a Scratch Without a Match." In the 1920's, tobacconist Sam Benaderet of San Francisco tried to fill this small self-lighting niche with his Matchless Cigarettes. The Matchless Cigarette was sold in a flat box with instructions on how to light the cigarette printed on the inside of the lid. Benaderet also made Self-Lighting Cigarettes, which were distributed by a Los Angeles company during the Roaring Twenties. In 1938, Mr. Ansley Fox's patent for another self-lighting cigarette was the reason given the S.E.C. for permission to issue roughly one million dollars of common and preferred stock. The Cigarette and Tobacco Corporation of Camden, N. J. didn't mention a brandname for their new self-lighting cigarette, but felt that merchants would push the smoke since: "it saves them the cost of matches which are ordinarily given away with each sale of a package of cigarettes." The last US manufacturer to market a self-lighting cigarette was the Commercial Tobacco Corp. of San Carlos, California. In 1954, Spotlite Cigarettes were produced when the owner of little Commercial Tobacco convinced enough of his friends to buy stock in the company.