Pony Post cigar label with mounted rider and mailbag – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Pony Post cigar label with mounted rider and mailbag, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Pony Post cigar label with mounted rider and mailbag
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A rider galloping across the label carries a mailbag, a clear nod to the Pony Express, the relay service that carried mail by horseback between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, from April 1860 until the transcontinental telegraph made it obsolete in late 1861. The service lasted only about 18 months, yet it became one of the most romanticized episodes of the Western frontier. Cigar makers borrowed that legend for their packaging, so the label sells tobacco through a story of speed, daring and the open road.
| Original scan | 875 × 685 px |
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| Reference | MEN50 |
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