Antique Renter's Special Cigar Box 🚬 1900s Louisville Kentucky, CMIU Union Label, Victorian Portrait, Tobacciana Collectible, Americana Gift mickey_ear_zeros No manufacture date is legible

No manufacture date is legible on the piece itself

Every word printed on the label is transcribed here verbatim: DEFY THE WORLD / BRAND / CHOICE / Cold Packed / Tomatoes / FIRST QUALITY / CONTENTS 2 LBS

That is a time capsule in four numerals

the Depression had shuttered dozens of the smaller shops

offered as it has survived in storage

Antique Renter's Special Cigar Box 🚬 1900s Louisville Kentucky, CMIU Union Label, Victorian Portrait, Tobacciana Collectible, Americana Gift mickey_ear_zeros No manufacture date is legibleThe Man on the Lid Is Looking at You He is mustachioed, formally dressed, photographed with the quiet certainty of someone whose face on a cigar box label was designed to say: trust this product. Below him, in the clean serif typography of the early twentieth century, a ribbon banner carries two words that contain an entire American era. RENTER'S SPECIAL. This is a 100 count antique wooden cigar box with dimensions of 7" x 5. 5" x 5. 5". from Factory