African-American images are scarce and when politically incorrect are very racist and offensive in nature. Though I certainly don't condone this type of stereotyping, from an historical perspective, these images provide insight into the advertising practices of that bygone era. These images are highly sought after not only by cigar label collectors but by African-American memorabilia aficionados as well. This is probably the largest and rarest group of African-American cigar label images that you will encounter in one place. Even the finest collections of Cigar Label Art may have only 10-15 examples of African-American images.
As with all of the Theme groups on CLJ dotcom...I want to Thank everyone that has loaned me their images (whether they knew about it or not...Ha!) |