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One... Race from Colored Relief Cards (N352) issued by Consolidated Cigarette Company to promote Paxi Cigarettes

Lithographer Raphael Tuck & Sons British
1888
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One... Race from Colored Relief Cards (N352) issued in 1888 by Consolidated Cigarette Company to promote Paxi Cigarettes. Die-cut pictures cut from scraps of sheets of illustrations from Raphael Tuck and pasted onto paper backing. Baseball and non-baseball subjects. Back printed in blue: Fine Colored Relief Cards/ PACKED IN/ PAXI/ All Tobacco Cigarettes,/ REPRESENTING/ BASE BALL,/ SOLDIERS OF ENGLAND,/ LAWN TENNIS,/ ATHLETES,/ FOOT BALL,/ BALLET GIRLS, JOCKEYS, FENCING./ Representing 100 different/ subjects./ Consolidated Cigarette Co.,/ COB. AVE. D. & 10th ST.,/ NEW YORK.

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Object Information
  • Title: One... Race from Colored Relief Cards (N352) issued by Consolidated Cigarette Company to promote Paxi Cigarettes
  • Publisher: Consolidated Cigarette Company
  • Lithographer: Raphael Tuck & Sons (British, London)
  • Date: 1888
  • Medium: Die-cut
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 1 15/16 in. (8.3 × 5 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
  • Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
  • Object Number: Burdick 224, N352.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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