✨ This beautiful Antique Sun-Maid embossed cigar label comes from W. C. Frutiger & Co. of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, one of the firms that helped turn that small town into a major cigar‑making center in the early 1900s. Printed on heavy stock with rich color and gold embossing, it features the Sun Maid woman holding a box of cigars against a rural landscape—a bold, eye‑catching image designed to stop customers in their tracks.

🏭 In its day, Frutiger’s factory stood along Red Lion’s famous “cigar row,” where multiple cigar companies produced millions of cigars a year. Local history still remembers that era: the town even raises a giant cigar on New Year’s Eve to honor its cigar‑making past. Labels like this are some of the last surviving pieces of that story—far more fragile than the buildings or machinery that once surrounded them.

🎨 Cigar labels are now recognized as a true art form. Printed by expert lithographers and then deeply embossed, many used real metallic powders in their gold areas; that’s why the Sun-Maid title and scrollwork still glow more than a century later. Museums and collectors seek out these labels because the combination of lithography, embossing, and imaginative imagery was largely lost after the 1920s.

🧾 Details:
⭐ Maker: W. C. Frutiger & Co., Red Lion, Pennsylvania.
⭐ Era: early 1900s–1920s, stone lithography with gold embossing.
⭐ Size: Approx. 8 1/2" x 7".
⭐ Condition: New old stock (NOS) with only light storage wear that disappears once framed.
⭐ Paper: Heavy stock that keeps the colors vibrant and crisp.
⭐ Shipping: Free shipping in the USA.

Most of the artists who created labels like this worked anonymously, for very little pay, yet their work has outlived both factories and brand names. Adding this Sun-Maid label to your wall or collection keeps that forgotten art and history alive.

You’ll receive one original antique Sun-Maid embossed cigar label, carefully packaged flat so it’s ready to frame and enjoy.