Antique Big Wolf Cigar Label 🚬 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph, James W. Smith Cigar Co., Snarling Wolf Head Die-Cut Label, NOS crate_label_art carries the real showpiece: a

carries the real showpiece: a tobacco leaf rendered in metallic gold foil

This was no accident of the printer's whim

which is precisely what happened to the overwhelming majority of surviving tags

and the Flemish 3 Fantastische Supermen anchors the very bottom

Antique Big Wolf Cigar Label 🚬 Gold Embossed Chromolithograph, James W. Smith Cigar Co., Snarling Wolf Head Die-Cut Label, NOS crate_label_art carries the real showpiece: aWhat Kind of Cigar Needed a Wolf on the Box to Sell Itself? There's a particular kind of American salesmanship that died out somewhere in the middle of the last century the kind that didn't have television, didn't have radio jingles, didn't have a billboard on the highway. All it had was the box itself, sitting behind a glass counter in a tobacco shop, competing against fifty other boxes for the same customer's eye. And so the box had to shout. It had