Vitola Description
Charity Petite Corona, 4 x 46 One of the virtues on the Tree of Temperance. The disposition the movement claimed for itself toward those it sought to convert.
Virtue Short Robusto, 4½ x 52 The trunk of the lithograph. The moral high ground a reform movement always assumes.
Peace Petite Gordo, 4½ x 60 What the temperance movement promised would follow prohibition. The 18th Amendment delivered organized crime instead.
Faith Short Perfecto, 5 x 50 The religious foundation of 19th-century temperance, named on the tree’s branches alongside the virtues it underwrote.
Brotherly Kindness Robusto Extra, 5 x 56 A virtue Fillmore printed on the tree. The fraternal feeling among the converted, rarely extended to those they were converting.
Fidelity Gran Toro, 6 x 54 Steadfastness, a branch of the temperance tree. The movement’s century-long persistence before the amendment finally passed.
Limited Editions
Vitola Description
Goodness Gran Robusto Prensado, 5 x 56P Another virtue from the lithograph — the broad moral claim under which all the specific virtues sat.
Humility Panetela, 5½ x 37 Listed on the tree, though humility was rarely the temper of those legislating other people’s behavior.
Reverence Gran Corona, 5¾ x 46 A branch on the temperance tree. The religious posture the movement adopted toward its own cause.
Gran Perfecto Gran Perfecto, 5 5/8 x 60 The figurado tapered at both ends — the most demanding shape in any roller’s repertoire. The portfolio’s recurring LE expression of each blend’s outer limits.
A.W.S. IV Lonsdale, 6¼ x 44 Archibald W. Skeet III. Aww. Skeet. Skeet. Skeet. Skeet.