Chief Cook cigar label with chef holding a pan – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Chief Cook cigar label with chef holding a pan, a historic image rich in period detail. 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 fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Chief Cook cigar label with chef holding a pan
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A cigar label showing a chef holding a pan gives this picture a different angle than most portraits on the board, since its purpose was commercial rather than personal. Labels like this were pasted onto cigar boxes to catch the eye of buyers in tobacco shops, and brands often leaned on cheerful figures, household trades, and familiar roles to make a product feel friendly and approachable. The cook here stands in for a kitchen trade, a reminder of how advertisers borrowed everyday work to sell goods. Its placement under "Gentlemen" reflects how such labels were once grouped, though it would sit more naturally among printed ephemera.
| Original scan | 942 × 630 px |
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| Reference | MEN49 |
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