| Collecting Cigar
Label Art: 1998: Cigars
were in their heyday in the period between 1870 & 1930. During this time, more than
15,000 cigar manufacturers were making over 350,000 different cigar brands. At this time
in the U.S., less than 55% of the public could read, so in order to instill brand loyalty
in their customers, cigar companies outdid each other with intricate, expensive and often
humerous cigar labels on the cigar boxes. Like the cigar band, the label was also a way to
deter bootleggers.
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