Cigar label reading NO PEER with two men lighting cigars – Historic Print
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Cigar label reading NO PEER with two men lighting cigars comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cigar label reading NO PEER with two men lighting cigars
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Lead with the label itself: the printed words NO PEER set above a scene of two men lighting cigars. Cigar labels like this one were pasted onto wooden boxes or tins to identify a brand and catch a buyer's eye at the tobacconist's counter, so the picture was an advertisement first and a piece of decoration second. Makers of the period often leaned on genteel imagery, such as well-dressed men at leisure, to suggest that their smoke was a mark of good taste. The label's gentlemanly pair is a useful reminder of how tobacco was marketed to middle-class consumers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| Original scan | 928 × 642 px |
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| Reference | MEN83 |
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