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 Condition in the cigar label

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

The pin mechanism is intact and functional

that tension is fully preserved

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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 Condition in the cigar labelWhat 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,