Rare Antique 1900s - 1920s Brown Stone Corona Embossed Cigar Label, Cool History 🚬 circus_theme the physical object itself was

the physical object itself was made by craftsmen

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

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

Rare Antique 1900s - 1920s Brown Stone Corona Embossed Cigar Label, Cool History 🚬 circus_theme the physical object itself wasWhat 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