Collie dog with sheep on vintage cigar label – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Collie dog with sheep on vintage cigar label brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Collie dog with sheep on vintage cigar label
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A collie standing among sheep is the central motif of this cigar label, a small printed piece of commercial art once pasted onto cigar boxes and packaging. Labels like this were produced in large runs during the late 1800s and early 1900s, when lithographers used bright color and sentimental animal scenes to catch the eye of buyers at tobacco counters. Collies were popular in this period, often shown as loyal herders, which made them a natural choice for a brand hoping to suggest reliability and rural wholesomeness. Look closely at the layered colors and the sheep's woolly outlines to see how much detail a printer could pack into a label that was meant to be seen for only a moment.
| Original scan | 956 × 615 px |
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| Reference | Dog33 |
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