I've been fascinated with finding images of old UK tobacconist shops, the windowdressing is unbelievably beautiful and provokes eye-popping awe, sadly, many of the shots are too far away to get a good close gaze, but you can still make out just how grand they once were.
I finally found the perfect example of a very well-dressed window, it was in Northern Ireland and it was full of Gallaher showmatter.
This display is jawdroppingly awesome!
Likewise, this Australian dressed-window would surely stop any pipeman in his tracks as he was walking down the street!
An example of showmatter that manufacturers offered the merchant, in this case, that of Barling:
Here's an old Woolworths window:
Random Rathbone as Sherlock pic with prominent Peterson's baccypot on display:
And now off for a stroll down the old High Streets to see what we see.
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