Red Tips cigar label with horse head in horseshoe – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Red Tips cigar label with horse head in horseshoe comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. 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.
Red Tips cigar label with horse head in horseshoe
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A horse's head set inside a horseshoe anchors this cigar label, a small piece of advertising that once identified the Red Tips brand on a box or band. Printers of the late 1800s and early 1900s often relied on such images, since the horseshoe was widely regarded as a token of good luck and the horse suggested strength and speed, qualities a maker hoped would rub off on the tobacco. Labels like this were usually printed in bright color and designed to catch a shopper's eye in a crowded display, which makes surviving examples a useful record of commercial art from the period.
| Original scan | 901 × 660 px |
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| Reference | Hor17 |
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