Unbound
1880 · Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn, New York, 1880. Unbound. Very good. The front of this card advertising Capadura Cigars featuring Puck magazine inspired caricatures of Rutherford B. Hays, Ulysses S. Grant, and a rotundly grotesque Benjamin F. Butler enjoying a smoke together. Text beneath the illustration provides their supposed conversation:
Grant: No use talking, Capadura is the boss segar.
Hayes: I reckon, you’re right, old man.
Butler: You bet.
A caption along the bottom margin of the card reads, “The Capadura is now, ever has been, and shall continue to be the best five cent segar in the world.”
On its reverse, (truncated)
Grant: No use talking, Capadura is the boss segar.
Hayes: I reckon, you’re right, old man.
Butler: You bet.
A caption along the bottom margin of the card reads, “The Capadura is now, ever has been, and shall continue to be the best five cent segar in the world.”
On its reverse, (truncated)