Antique Big Wolf Cigar Label – Gold Embossed Vintage Paper Ephemera

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A wonderfully dramatic piece of antique advertising art, complete with a rather unforgettable wolf.

This original Big Wolf cigar label features a striking black wolf beneath bold red lettering, surrounded by decorative details characteristic of early commercial label design. The dark wildlife illustration is made even more distinctive by the label's gold-embossed details and chromolithographed artwork.

Created for the James W. Smith Cigar Co., this surviving paper label offers a glimpse into an era when even everyday packaging was embellished with elaborate illustration, typography and decorative printing.

Whether preserved as a collectible or given new life in an art project, Big Wolf has the kind of visual presence that makes a wonderful focal piece.

For the Artist & Journal Maker

With its dramatic wolf portrait, aged paper character and decorative typography, this original label could make an extraordinary focal point for a junk journal, altered book, folio, collage or mixed-media piece.

It would be especially striking in woodland, folklore, natural-history, Gothic, masculine or old-world inspired journals, either used intact or incorporated into a larger composition.

It can also simply be framed and enjoyed as an unusual surviving example of antique commercial art.

Unlike reproduction scrapbook paper, this is authentic vintage ephemera, bringing the texture, printing and history of an original old-paper piece to a finished work.

Details

• One original antique cigar label
• Big Wolf design
• James W. Smith Cigar Co.
• Wolf / wildlife illustration
• Chromolithographed artwork
• Gold-embossed details
• Decorative vintage typography
• Authentic vintage paper ephemera
• Not a reproduction
• Limited original supplier inventory

Please note: Vintage paper may show subtle variations associated with age and long-term storage. Please review the photographs carefully. Because these are genuine vintage pieces, minor differences from one label to another may occur.