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This
Spanish cigar
box label (right) shows a rather ethnic looking version of
Edgar
Allan Poe. He is shown in the top center, surrounded by (clockwise)
Oliver
Wendell Holmes (the poet and father of the Supreme Court Justice
of the same name), Johann Christoph Frederich von Schiller, Johann
Wolfgang
von Goethe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There may have been
reservations
about Poe in his home country, the United States, but his fame in
international
circles was already well established.
The label featuring Poe alone (below), was produced for the Kraus
Company, in Baltimore, MD. It was intended to be affixed to the inside
of the lid of a cigar box. The cigar band (below, right) also features
a small portrait of Poe and was, as one would expect, wrapped around
the cigars.
(The items displayed here are reproduced, with permission, from a
private
collection.)
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