Rare Antique 1900s - 1920s Brown Stone Corona Embossed Cigar Label, Cool History 🚬 circus_theme particularly in Britain and among

particularly in Britain and among cosmopolitan American drinkers who had encountered it abroad

like exactly what it was: a small American enterprise with a big American confidence in its own product and its own name

the physical object itself was made by craftsmen

banana palms swaying against the clouds

A child pinning on a Sauk County Sheriff's badge in that era was playing out a fantasy of authority and adventure in a place that had always believed in spectacle

Rare Antique 1900s - 1920s Brown Stone Corona Embossed Cigar Label, Cool History 🚬 circus_theme particularly in Britain and amongWhat Rolled Off a Long Island Press and Never Made It to a Cigar Box? The Story Behind the Brown Stone Corona Label There's a particular kind of quiet magic in holding a piece of printed ephemera that was made to be used glued to the inside lid of a wooden cigar box, glimpsed for a moment, then forgotten and realizing that somehow, against all odds, it survived. Not just survived, but survived unattached. New Old Stock. Never applied. Never pressed