James Moran & Co's Romeo Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco advertisement – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: James Moran & Co's Romeo Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco advertisement, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
James Moran & Co's Romeo Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco advertisement
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The name Romeo does most of the work in this advertisement, borrowing the lovesick hero of Shakespeare's tragedy to sell fine cut chewing tobacco. Late nineteenth-century advertisers often tied their products to romance and sentiment, and a Valentine setting made a tobacco brand feel like a gift for a sweetheart's admirer. Colorful trade pieces like this were often handed out with goods or collected in albums and scrapbooks. Notice how the sentimental appeal and the bold brand name were aimed at men who were used to seeing tobacco marketed as a pleasure.
| Original scan | 3,600 × 2,981 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | VAL-12 |
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