Description

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Manuf’d in the United States of America, by David Dunlop, Petersburg VA. U.S.A. In margin: A. Hoen & Co Richmond, VA.  6 ¼” w x 13 ½”h.  Colored lithograph.  This label is probably a leftover copy printed during the 1880’s.  Such labels were pasted on crates (also called caddies) or barrels of tobacco.
 
DESCRIPTION: This is an image of young woman with a pearl necklace and a fan.  Below her is a modified image of the Great Seal of Virginia.
 
DAVID DUNLOP: Born in Scotland on September 8, 1804.  He immigrated to the United States in the mid-1820’s and joined his uncle’s tobacco manufacturing firm, “Dunlop and Orgain” of Petersburg.  After his uncle’s death in 1827, Dunlop took over management of the company, which became one of the most successful businesses in antebellum Petersburg.  By 1860 his factory employed some 300 persons, mostly slaves and free blacks.
 
A HOEN & CO: Originally a Baltimore, Maryland-based lithography firm founded by Edward Weber in the 1840s as E. Weber & Company.  German immigrant August Hoen took it over with his brothers Henry and Ernest in the mid1850s, upon Weber’s death. A branch of A. Hoen opened in Richmond, Virginia in the late 1860s.  Among Hoen’s earliest Richmond jobs was the printing of Southern currency near the end of the Civil War. In the newer Richmond plant the quality of inks and paper stock, as well as the multi-layer lithography process itself saw great advances, to the point where most labels and cigar boxes produced by Hoen from the 1890s forward still retain their original hues after more than a century. Hoen used the five-color multi-layer process for his printing.
 
CONDITION: Colorful. Very good.
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