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A glimpse into a bygone era with some of the most beautiful and fascinating lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels this book contains some of the most beautiful and fascinating lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels. More than just a cigar, theyre an art form, with tobacco growers and handrollers considered artists. The cigar label salesman and his books cigar box art, back in the day. They are, of course, in spanish, so the full table looks like this. Camels were quite closely associated with some tobacco products and heres one happily racing across the desert in egypt. The boldness of color, superb graphics, and embossing has been rarely achieved in any other topic of ephemera. A cigar box is a box container for cigar packaging. Partagas cigar factory havana 2020 all you need to know. Shop premium cigars, humidors, samplers, pipes, pipe tobacco, and accessories at cigar.
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