Sweet Meats Cigars, Salesman Sample

This enchanting cigar label salesman sample from Louis E. Neuman & Co. transports viewers to a romanticized 18th-century garden, where elegantly costumed figures share a tender moment amid flowering urns and weathered stone walls. The scene exemplifies the Victorian fascination with aristocratic romance and pastoral beauty, rendered in the rich, saturated colors that made American chromolithography the envy of the commercial world. Produced at Neuman's New York headquarters at Pearl and Elm Streets, this sample bears the original wholesale pricing structure, revealing the business mechanics behind these miniature masterpieces. The notation of a Western Branch in Chicago speaks to the national scope of the cigar label trade during its golden age. A standout piece for collectors of tobacco ephemera, Victorian commercial art, or fine chromolithography. Size: 5.5" x 8.0" Condition: Good to Very Good