Box Label, Professor Morse, Dual Portrait, Antique 1920s, Inner Label, NOS, Ephemera

There are very few objects that connect you directly to a specific moment in history. This is one of them.

• Subject: Professor Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code
• Printer: Consolidated Lithographing Corporation, Brooklyn, New York
• Issued by: Cuban Cigar Company, Cleveland, Ohio
• Materials: Paper, chromolithograph, embossed and gilded
• Origin: New York, USA
• Era: Antique, 1925–1930
• Dimensions: 9.0" long | 6.75" tall
• Quantity: 3 available
• Condition: New Old Stock (NOS), unused, mint condition. Very slight yellowing on reverse consistent with age. Face vivid and pristine. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

Frame it for a study, a home office, a technology enthusiast's workspace, or alongside other American inventor and history memorabilia. At 9.0 by 6.75 inches it fits a standard 9x7 or 10x8 frame beautifully. A wonderful gift for a history enthusiast, a communications or technology collector, a telegraphy buff, or anyone who appreciates the extraordinary intersection of American invention and commercial art.

This original Professor Morse inner box label was produced between 1925 and 1930 by the Consolidated Lithographing Corporation of Brooklyn, New York — for the Cuban Cigar Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It features two portraits of the man himself: a younger Professor Morse and Morse in his later years, side by side — a rare biographical touch that makes this label unlike almost any other in the collection. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872) was an American painter and inventor who changed the world twice — first as one of the most celebrated portrait painters of his era, and then as the co-inventor of the single-wire telegraph system and the co-developer of Morse Code. His first successful telegraph message — "What hath God wrought" — was transmitted on May 24, 1844, over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. Morse Code remained the global standard for long-distance communication for over a century and is still used today. Consolidated Lithographing Corporation was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1925 by Jacob A. Voice, a Romanian immigrant who had worked his way up through the lithography trade before organizing his own firm.

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