Antique Oil Painting, 22 x 28", 24 x 30" framed, Passenger Train with Steam Engine. What I find interesting is that this is also an advertisement for Overland Cigars.
Some time around 1910 S.S. Pierce purchased the OVERLAND brand of cigars from John Gray & Co. and adopted it as their house brand, available through all their thousands of outlets, which accounts for the proliferation of OVERLAND boxes available to today’s collectors. The cigars were originally hand made for them under contract by D. Emil Klein who rolled them forapproximately 40 years in their large Factory #63 at 444 East 91st Street in Manhattan. Klein, established in 1898, is best known for their nationally marketed brands EMANELO, HADDEN HALL, and NOTTINGHAM, but like most cigar companies, produced custom and limited edition brands as well. OVERLAND was sold in more than a half dozen sizes and shapes in boxes of 25 and 50; it is the most frequently seen of all the cigar brands depicting railroads. OVERLAND boxes displayed a progression of different labels reflecting changes in railroad and printing technology. The earliest label depicted a steam train, which became a diesel, which became a pair of trains. An 1880s cigar box depicting a snowbound train bearing the OVERLAND brand name has been reported, but it was not part of the Klein/Pierce partnership. Neither was a turn-of-the-century Canadian-made OVERLAND. Around 1950 manufacture of the brand was switched to Waitt & Bond, a cigar maker with a half century history in Boston, who had recently relocated to large modern machine facilities in New Jersey. When the company acquired a factory in Scranton, manufacture of OVERLAND was transferred there.

Very Good Estate Condition