Antique Dick Custer Cigar Label 🤠 Gold Embossed Cowboy NOS Chromolithograph claymation_characters Most were thrown away

Most were thrown away

and Why That Is Half the Charm

That competitive pressure is exactly why labels like this one exist in such astonishing visual detail — nobody was going to win a customer's eye with a plain typeset box front when the label two inches over had a gunslinger

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Antique Dick Custer Cigar Label 🤠 Gold Embossed Cowboy NOS Chromolithograph claymation_characters Most were thrown awayWho's the Gunslinger Staring You Down From a Hundred Years Ago? There's a particular jolt that comes the first time you hold a piece of chromolithographic cigar art in your hands. It isn't nostalgia exactly you weren't there, and neither was I. It's something closer to recognition. You look at that wide, dust colored hat pulled low, the long dark hair falling past the shoulders, the heavy mustache, and that steel gray revolver leveled straight at your