J.V. O'Connell's Idle Hours cigar label with two gentlemen – 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: J.V. O'Connell's Idle Hours cigar label with two gentlemen, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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J.V. O'Connell's Idle Hours cigar label with two gentlemen
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Printed for J.V. O'Connell's "Idle Hours" cigar brand, this label shows two gentlemen, a pairing of leisure and tobacco that the brand name itself suggests. Cigar makers in the late 1800s and early 1900s used colorful lithographed labels like this one to catch a buyer's eye on crowded shop shelves and inside cigar boxes, and scenes of well-dressed men at ease were a popular choice for selling a smoke as a mark of relaxed sociability. Because the label was meant to be seen briefly and then often discarded or kept as a keepsake, surviving examples are valuable today for their printing techniques and their picture of how commercial art presented manhood and recreation.
| Original scan | 874 × 683 px |
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| Reference | MEN66 |
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