tobacco
Portraits of a Lady
Portraits of a Lady by Lo Scarabeo, 2003.

Cigar Bands
A collection of 24 cigar bands with miniature playing cards.

Kinney Transparent Cards
Kinney Bros Transparent playing cards with hidden images and fortunes, c.1890.

Naipes Parliament por Caloi
Carlos Loiseau, better known as ‘Caloi’, was a cartoonist whose designs for Parliament Cigarettes were first published in the early 1970s.

Bucktrout & Co. Ltd
Half-sized cigarette playing cards published by Bucktrout & Co., Ltd (Guernsey) c.1930.

Wills 200th Anniversary
Double pack commemorating the 200th anniversary of W.D & H.O. Wills Ltd, 1786 - 1986.

British American Tobacco patience
Patience deck for British American Tobacco printed by Speelkaartenfabriek Nederland c.1940

Tobacco advertising
Advertising decks made in Belgium by A. Van Genechten, 1960s.

Permalon Ltd
Miniature playing cards advertising "Perma" smoking-related products featuring the "Perma Girl" on the backs and Joker.

Wills Scheme
The W.D & H.O. Wills Playing Card promotion of the early 1930s

John Player Special
John Player Special non-standard playing cards created by the illustrator Nick Price, 1987

Wills’s Happy Families game
Wills’s “Happy Families” cards were issued by the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland) Limited in around 1930.

De Reszke Cigarettes “What the Stars Say”
De Reszke Cigarettes “What the Stars Say” astrology cards issued by J. Milhoff & Co., 1934.

Heber Mardon (1840- 1925)
Heber Mardon was born in 1840. With his father he founded the firm of Mardon and Son which, in 1863, became Mardon, Son & Hall.

Hard-a-Port
Tobacco insert cards were a very successful marketing innovation which started in the nineteenth century.

Fabrica de Cigarrillos Roldan y Cia, Lima, Peru
The design of the figures is very agile with excellent colour harmony and execution.

Carreras Fortune Telling Cards
Carreras Fortune Telling Cards, 1926

Standard Genoese
Van Genechten manufactured playing cards in various styles, including specially customised versions for commercial clients wishing to advertise their own brands on the cards.

Cía Chilena de Tabacos
Anglo-American style pack issued on behalf of the Cía Chilena de Tabacos, c.1930

Carreras Ltd Playing Cards and Dominoes, 1929
Carreras Ltd miniature playing cards and dominoes, 1929

Cigarette Cards and other ephemera
Cigarette Cards, Trade Cards, Miniature Playing Cards and other ephemera.

Mardon, Son & Hall of Bristol, branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company
A division of Imperial Tobacco, they appear to have made cards almost exclusively for the cigarette token market, which flourished during the 1930s.

Industria Gráfica Pesout
Coimexpor Spanish-suited playing cards by Industria Gráfica Pesout, S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, c.2008.

Cia Chilena de Tabacos
Spanish style pack issued on behalf of the Cía Chilena de Tabacos, c.1932

Carreras Ltd Tobacco Advertising
Carreras issued a number of advertising packs, cigarette and trade cards, miniature packs, etc during the 1920s and 30s.

Litografía Fabbri, Lima, Peru, c.1900-20
Litografía Fabbri, Lima, Peru, c.1900-20, printers of cigarette insert cards for tobacco companies.

Animals Quartet printed for Cigarrillos El Figaro, Peru
Animals Quartet game printed for Cigarrillos El Figaro, Peru, early 1900s.

Biermans for the Estanco de Naipes del Peru
Standard Genoese pattern with French indices made by Biermans for Cigarrillo Holiday and the Estanco de Naipes del Perú.

Roldan Tobacco Cards, Peru
Tobacco cards with miniature playing cards inset into top corners, printed by Litografía y Tipografía Fabbri Hermanos, for Roldan y Cia Tobacco, Lima, c.1895.

Cigarrillos Compadre, Peru, early 1900s
Spanish-suited playing cards for Cigarrillos Compadre, Peru, early 1900s
