tobacco cards

[sleventynineR]

I love these old tobacco cards, the best motorcycle ones I have found are either Lambert & Butler or Wills's. Anybody have other examples of early motorcycle/automotive tobacco/cigarette cards? I've been trying to find more examples and integrate them into my own artwork or for inspiration.

There's a lot of other really cool cards too, like military depictions, naval ships, cars, car grills, camping stuff, and the list goes on. I like vintage and these cards are awesome examples of vintage.

 

[sleventynineR]

more cards

 

[sleventynineR]

more cards

 

[jpmobius]

Very cool man, thanks for sharing. I've never seen these before. Where did they originally come from? Included with tobacco purchase back whenever I presume?

 

[sleventynineR]

even more

 

[sleventynineR]

^^^^ sorry bout the duplicate

 

[sleventynineR]

Very cool man, thanks for sharing. I've never seen these before. Where did they originally come from? Included with tobacco purchase back whenever I presume?

Tobacco/cigarette cards came 1 per pack; they were meant to keep the package from bending as cigarettes came in soft paper or large tins. The tins had some awesome artwork too.

 

[sleventynineR]

I'm hoping to see some cards posted that I haven't seen, but I will keep throwing them out there.

 

[Hoofhearted]

Great cards. Thanks for posting.

 

[sleventynineR]

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My favorite one- hence my profile pic

 

[sleventynineR]

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[Luugo86]

Thank you for sharing these cards, they are all very cool. Do you own these or just pulling the pics from a site ?

 

[sleventynineR]

Thank you for sharing these cards, they are all very cool. Do you own these or just pulling the pics from a site ?

I wish I had these, I stopped collecting cards long before I knew these existed. I picked up a couple of old car ones in an antiques store in Edenburgh last year and it piqued my curiosity. I've mostly been finding them on Flickr. I made a couple of t-shirts with thiese on them and they're pretty cool, but I need to find who owns the rights before I can do anything else.

 

[sleventynineR]

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[sleventynineR]

coffee, pancakes, bacon, and eggs saturday morning with the kids.