Cigarette Cards,

Trade Cards

and

Miniature Playing Cards

and other ephemera.

Playing Cards often feature in the design of items such as cigarette cards, trade cards, telephone cards and lottery tickets, as well as in advertisements, calendars, chinaware, brochures, beer mats, key rings, cigar labels, sweet wrappers, post cards, book illustrations, music manuscripts and so on…. more

Peruvian Cigarette Cards

Left: two cards from 40-card lithographed pack, probably manufactured in Spain for the Peruvian tobacco market, c.1890.

Below: miniature playing cards inset into collectable cigarette cards manufactured in Peru, c.1920.