Item Number: 1997
Title: "My it sure am sweet, Genuine "Bull" Durham smoking tobacco.
Date: c1900
Artist: Unsigned
Size: Sign itself: 18"x25.5"
Comments: One of the most famous American advertising signs, and one of the most frequently reproduced (probably a thousand repros for every real one!). This is the genuine, original chromolithograph sign, on 1/4" thick cardboard, with great color. The frame was added perhaps 20 years ago. Truly a classic image of racial advertising in the United States.
Price: $1850
Condition: B+, printed on cardboard as issued, great color, expert touchup to surface abrasions and small dents, and small areas of expert restoration, virtually invisible.