Karl Marx cigar box with striking color portrait of Marx

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Wooden Karl Marx Cigar Box (c. 1944?) with a full color cameo portrait of Karl Marx with "Economist" at the foot of the cameo. At the upper left corner is "6¢" imposed on a shield. A green wreath surrounds the sides and bottom of the portrait and to the wreath are appended a rolled manuscript and book on each side of the portrait. The decorations of the entire panel are embossed in gilt. Beneath the portrait in large type is "Strictly Hand Made."The entire label extends below the box lid into the inner rear panel of the box itself. Here are printed "Karl Marx Economist" beneath which is "The Commonwealth Co-Operative Assn, Reading, PA." A thin ribbon with "Karl Marx" repeating covers every edge of the cigar box, and each end carries "Karl Marx" in large type. The top of the box is stamped "Karl Marx" in black as is the front of the box. A tax stamp is visible at the lower left edge of the top and left edge of the front panel. It is this stamp that suggests the date of 1944, but the fact that the Cigarworkers International Local 236 absorbed the Communist Co-operative Association in 1905 suggests a date prior to 1905, rather than the 1944 suggested by the tax stamp.Historical Note: The Communist Co-operative Association was a Socialist collective and their Karl Marx 5¢ cigars were made on the second floor of the Labor Lyceum Hall in Reading,PA. In 1905, they were absorbed by the Cigarworkers International Local 236 also in Reading, PA . A good example but with darkened wood at top and miscellaneous stains on the outside of the lid and the front panel. ; 8¼ x 5 5/8 x2 3/8". N° de ref. del artículo 31504

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