2828 |
C |
ADVERTISING 1891-1909 TOBACCO, CIGARS & CIGARETTE ILLUSTRATED COVERS Five colorful illustrated covers: (1) 1891 'RED DRAGON CIGAR/Reed & Taylor, Tobaccos, Cigars & c.,/Burlington, VT', with illustrated Dragon
seal (slightly reduced); (2) 1901 "MAH'MAL/Egyptian Cigarettes", S.S. Pierce Co, Boston, with red camel seal; (3) 1904 'The Celebrated Ben-Hur 5¢ Cigar/Controlled by/Zarnits Bros. Grocery Co./Wheeling, W. VA', with colorful illustration of 4 horse
chariot and red text on back (slightly reduced at right, affecting franking); (4) 1904 'Genuine Durham Smoking Tobacco', Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co, 111 Fifth Ave, New York, with illustrated pouch of tobacco (opening flaws); and (5) similar
illustration (different colors) on 1909 Durham Tobacco cover with different address, Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co, Durham, NC. Usual cover wear. Fine to very fine. (Image) |
Est. 350-500
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