Allen & Ginter cigarette advertisement with 50 fish – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Allen & Ginter cigarette advertisement with 50 fish. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Allen & Ginter cigarette advertisement with 50 fish
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Allen & Ginter's trade card set of 50 fish is one of the best-known series of its kind, and this card belongs to the tobacco cards that the Richmond, Virginia firm slipped into cigarette packs in the late 1880s to stiffen the packaging and encourage collecting. Each card paired a painted or lithographed fish with a short printed description, turning a simple advertisement into a small natural history lesson. Collectors of the era often swapped and saved these cards in albums, which is why so many survive today. The series shows how cigarette makers used pictorial inserts to build brand loyalty among a broad public.
| Original scan | 2,008 × 5,557 px · prints to 7 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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