Wonderful Art hiding inside

I am always willing to admit that I like the style of cigars more than the actual cigars themselves.  Most that have had one like a fine cigar, even those who would not say they are 'cigar smokers'.  But it takes a long span of time as well as many thousands of dollars before you get an idea of  how lucky we are that a tenth or less of what was once so magnificent about cigars and cigar packaging is still extant in the market today.  Which is to say it is sad that we have lost so many of our opportunities to see true art and wonder in the packaging of the modern cigar.   We are lucky that we can still see wonderful art and quaintness in a Havana Cigar box vista.  The original designers and manufacturers lost everything to a communist regime, but it seems that the communists were too busy re-organizing things to mess much with a good thing.  Even though the current habanos portfolio feature art little changed since it's original design date, There are so many brands that you will NEVER see a box of, ever.  ALL of that droning on to show you this.

There is no better way to see the vistas on a cuban cigar box than a box of a vitola so small that the entire inside surface is covered with remarkable pictures.  The El Rey del Mundo Demi Tasse is such a small cigar.  You could almost get them into a cigarette case, it seems.  And the box is just TINY.  But what is so cool to me is the imagery.  This Indian God riding in a chariot being pulled by the strangest combination in an animal menagerie imaginable.  (THAT is a tongue twister.)    The inner flap depicts another deity benevolently distributing tobacco to a group of cherubic citizens of her world.  Some seemingly to get to work on, warehousing or rolling the raw tobacco she sprinkles on the little white and black ones, and apparently dropping the finished product of their labor onto the heads of the little Taino Indian people to enjoy.  

I think the Juan Lopez box art might be as great, I REALLY NEED to get my hands on a couple boxes of Petit Coronas.  I know it features a nice tobacco farm scene and beautiful graphics.  If any of you going to the Shack want to bring me JL Petit Corona box I'd appreciate it.

Cigar catalogues keep getting tighter and smaller and it seems like everything iconic is being washed away to make room for the faddish sausages being cranked out by the modern industry, on or off the island of Cuba.  So there are fewer and fewer ways for a person to see a great surprise when opening the box of cigars they have just bought.  I REALLY like the El Rey del Mundo art!