Tobacco shipping crate label

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Label from 20 pound shipping crate for cut-plug tobacco, 1874; Josephine trademark; M. & C., New York; color lithograph on paper, printed at top "JOSEPHINE./ TRADE MARK"; illustration of girl sitting on shipping crate on deck of ship, holding hemp line, barrel at left and lower left a shipping crate marked "M. & C./ N.Y."; lithographer's name printed lower right, "A. HOEN & CO. RICHMOND, VA."