Vest Pocket cigar label with mustached gentleman portrait – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Vest Pocket cigar label with mustached gentleman portrait comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. 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.
Vest Pocket cigar label with mustached gentleman portrait
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A mustached gentleman in a high collar looks out from this cigar label, which was designed to catch the eye of a buyer scanning a crowded tobacconist's shelf. The "Vest Pocket" name points to a small cigar made to fit a waistcoat pocket, a format popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when cigars were sold in bulk boxes and tobacco makers competed through eye-catching printed labels. Such labels were often chromolithographed, with fine detail and bright inks, and they were usually pasted onto the box or the cigar itself. Today they survive as small, collectible records of commercial art and of how manufacturers pictured their customers.
| Original scan | 923 × 643 px |
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| Reference | MEN94 |
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