Stephen G. Jones designed a traditional yet lavish look for Crowned Heads‘ J.D. Howard Reserve. The name of this cigar brand was inspired from the alias Jesse James, the famous American outlaw who is best known for his legendary life of crime (robbing trains and banks across the Wild West in the years after the Civil War). Jesse James used the name J.D. Howard while hiding out in Nashville on 711 Fatherland in the 1870s. Jesse James’ story is what is capture in Crowned Heads‘ J.D. Howard Reserve packaging. The elements of Jesse James’ period pushed Stephen G. Jones to create almost everything by hand, from the monogram and ornaments to the box lettering.