Antique K and R Countrymaid Sausage Advertising Label K and R Inc Hastings Nebraska Meat Packing New Old Stock NOS 1920s 1930s ✨ new_jersey_ephemera The cigar box was the

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Condition in the cigar label market ranges from heavily used examples with glue residue

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Antique K and R Countrymaid Sausage Advertising Label K and R Inc Hastings Nebraska Meat Packing New Old Stock NOS 1920s 1930s ✨ new_jersey_ephemera The cigar box was theWhat Does a Sausage Label Tell You About the Soul of a City? There is a moment, when you hold a piece of printed ephemera like this, when the distance between you and the past collapses entirely. The ink is still vivid. The paper still carries that faint mechanical smell of a commercial press doing its finest work. And suddenly you are not a collector standing at a desk in the twenty first century you are a grocer in southern Nebraska, circa 1929,