Victorian Era scrap album containing approximately 170 choice inner and outer cigar box labels printed mostly by George S. Harris & Sons of Philadelphia. Includes a few Heffron & Phelps and Johns & Co. examples along with numerous Harris nail tags and a variety of trade cards and die cut scraps sprinkled throughout 48 album pages. 14x10½, maroon front cover with gilt and black embossed nature motifs, chromolithographed labels.

Important and rare collection of 1880s cigar box labels that have survived in very limited quantities. An all-star lineup of desirable titles with stunning graphic images. Includes Cricketers inner & outer (cricket player), EX inner & outer (horse-drawn postal delivery wagon), Silver Lining inner (smoking cigar), Three Guardsmen inner (royal guardsmen with American flag), Around The World outer (cigar box atop a world globe), Amusements inner & outer (smoking cigar in hand in front of sporting images), Valiant inner (firefighting scene with pumper and fireman rescue), Red Light inner (railroad lantern with train and signal tower), Sporting Friends inner & outer (two hunting dogs), King's Favorite inner & outer (relaxing jester plays lute for dog and monkey), Khedive inner & outer (Egyptian officer with scenes of pyramids, Alexandria, Port Said and Cairo), High Art inner (acrobatic boy hangs from ring in bird's beak), Starry Flag inner & outer (Civil War Union officer with American flag and landscape), Jockey Club inner (jockeys race horses past grandstand), Bicycle inner (3 men on highwheelers), Dandy inner (white whippet on grounds of English palace), King And Queen Of The Turf inner & outer (horse racing with sulkies), untitled inner (hunters around a campfire), Signal Service inner, outer & flap (signal servicemen at work in storm), Nutcrackers inner & outer (b&w design of squirrels on a tree branch overlooking town), 22 Carats outer (man blows gold smoke rings), Field And Forest inner & outer (buck flanked by hunting equipment), Little Drummer outer (military drummer), Securities inner & outer (safe filled with money and valuables), Silver Fox inner & outer (silver fox flanked by couple in winter fur), Nickle Movement inner (pocketwatch interior), Evening Smoke inner (man enjoys a cigar and a sunset stroll with dog), Meteor outer (orange meteor), Five Jacks inner & outer (Jack Frost, Jack Horner and other famous Jacks), Plantation inner & outer (black tobacco workers in field), North Pole inner (explorer raises U.S. flag on iceberg with seals and polar bear), Dining Car inner (black waiter serves white passengers on train), New Administration inner (Grover Cleveland & Thomas Hendricks), Billiard Champions inner (portraits of Vignaux, Schaefer & Slosson), Solid Boys inner (4 boys handling cigar boxes), Fast Local inner (steam engine & cars), Reserves inner (policeman holds up traffic for young lady), Alarm inner (firefighting scene with pumper and allegorical female holding lightning bolts) and Stag Party outer (men smoking cigars, drinking champagne).