Vintage Art : wonderful tags, cards and cigar labels for decorative reference

For years, we’ve followed all kinds of sources for vintage art, and it’s still very much in style to feature selections your the web. For years, the Publishers’ Warehouse has shared literally thousands of these images, along with samples from the Dover book colleciton of public domain images. One of the favorite sources for ‘vintage’ art are labels, cards and posters from the 18th century. Here’s we’re going to look at my favorites from the world of cigar labels. Enjoy!

Vintage lables, tags and post cardsFor years, we’ve followed all kinds of sources for vintage art, and it’s still very much in style to feature selections your the web. For years, the Publishers’ Warehouse has shared literally thousands of these images, along with samples from the Dover book colleciton of public domain images. One of the favorite sources for ‘vintage’ art are labels, cards and posters from the 18th century. Here’s we’re going to look at my favorites from the world of cigar labels. . . .

You can click on any of these to go to an interactive slide show, or click the first, and then just click the image to move forward. Note that some of these are fairly large, and may require a moment to display, and may require scrolling. Enjoy!



Habana_Cuba_poster_1Habana_Cuba_poster_2Illuminated_Pergaminos
Habana_Cuba_poster_1Habana_Cuba_poster_2Illuminated_Pergaminos
butterfly_tag_01butterfly_tag_02cigar_labels_1
butterfly_tag_01butterfly_tag_02cigar_labels_1
cigar_labels_2cigar_labels_3cigar_montage
cigar_labels_2cigar_labels_3cigar_montage
fancy_card_1fancy_card_2labels_Paris_1
fancy_card_1fancy_card_2labels_Paris_1
labels_Paris_2ladies_are_hotlinograph_card_1
labels_Paris_2ladies_are_hotlinograph_card_1
linograph_card_2linograph_card_3linograph_card_4
linograph_card_2linograph_card_3linograph_card_4
roses tarot_cards_1 tarot_cards_2
rosestarot_cards_1tarot_cards_2

As I said above, there are literally thousands of images in the Publishers’ Warehouse . . . many are very large, or high resolution for idea starters, or as reference material for your own creations. Of course, subscribers know exactly where the Publishers’ Warehouse is. If you don’t know, our easy confidential registration gets you the address. If you have a site with your favorite collection, please pass it along for everyone to enjoy.

And, thanks for reading

Fred Showker

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