Antique "Our Kitties" Cigar Box Label 🐾 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph Cats, Early 1900s Tins This label is a survivor

This label is a survivor of exactly that world: crisp navy and orange ink

It is not a famous place by the standards of New York State geography

you could smell the broomcorn dust on the wind walking through the borough on a weekday morning — a dry

that commercial heraldry of the interwar years was often invented whole cloth by the artists who designed the labels

Antique "Our Kitties" Cigar Box Label 🐾 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph Cats, Early 1900s Tins This label is a survivorEver wonder why the cigar box in Grandpa's attic was too pretty to throw away? Long before color televisions, glossy magazine spreads, or a single billboard ever lit up a highway, a scrap of paper glued inside a wooden cigar box was doing the heaviest lifting in American advertising. This little corner of commercial art gold embossed lettering, hand tooled scrollwork, cats rendered with more care than most portrait painters gave to people is exactly