Six (6) metamorphic advertising trade cards promoting the use of tobacco products
United States: 1870s-1880s. A grouping of six (6) metamorphic cards advertising tobacco produced by: Blackwell's; D.H. McAlpin & Co.; Jackson's Best; Rail Road Mills; and A.S. Rosenbaum & Co. The advertising gimmick of metamorphic cards was an effective and common one for tobacco products in the late nineteenth century. Each is chromolithographed and measures approx. 3.75" by 3.25". The grouping includes a couple that reveal a beautiful young woman underneath an old maid, as well as one that reveals Ulysses S. Grant under the democratic Presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden (who would go on to lose to Hayes in 1876). Very good to fine; some light browning. One small rip to the Allen's Jewel card. Traces of adhesive or erased inscriptions to some of the cards.
Price: $375.00
Item #21012765