Ainslie Place / Great Stuart Street

There's a long history of the established / old school legal professional and banking sector patronising the arts in Edinburgh.

Often you venture into corporate space and see art purchased by the organisation to show they have visible wealth but also a soul too.

And so it came to pass that a maverick but short lived advertising agency tried to muscle in on the gig and paid Cigs to add his tag to this grey box of the post office's just along from their office as their twist on art patrons.

They reputedly paid him £50 for this it has to be said classic Cigs combo of the triple stripe above . double underline below, white pen, all capitals rendering of his brand.

And within months they were consigned to the scrap heap of failed new enterprise, whilst the Cigs lives on - a blot on an otherwise pristine Georgian vista. Undated but anyone who knows the tale will tell you its 2013.

(They even tried to hide it as a deductible expense but the HMRC were having none of it. It was the intervention of HMRC that was the first domino to tip that marked the beginning of the end...)

My 1300 appointment round the corner in Moray Place failed to show, so I used my time wisely to snap this. On the company i phone. Guess who left the camera charging in the hall as he stepped out the door?

*facepalm*