Antique Big Wolf Cigar Label 🚬 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph, James W. Smith Cigar Co., Snarling Wolf Head Die-Cut Label, NOS crate_label_art genuine local bills

genuine local bills

Because the manufacture stamp on that leg tag isn't legible enough to name a single toy company or pin an exact year

which is precisely what happened to the overwhelming majority of surviving tags

This was no accident of the printer's whim

Antique Big Wolf Cigar Label 🚬 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph, James W. Smith Cigar Co., Snarling Wolf Head Die-Cut Label, NOS crate_label_art genuine local billsWhat Kind of Cigar Needed a Wolf on the Box to Sell Itself? There's a particular kind of American salesmanship that died out somewhere in the middle of the last century the kind that didn't have television, didn't have radio jingles, didn't have a billboard on the highway. All it had was the box itself, sitting behind a glass counter in a tobacco shop, competing against fifty other boxes for the same customer's eye. And so the box had to shout. It had