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Cigarette cards evolve form an earlier tradition of trade cards. Trade card was a sort of a business card back in the old days. It consisted of the names, addresses and advertisements of commercial companies.
Cigarette cards were used to stiffen the American paper cigarette packets.
The popularity of cigarette cards took off right around the 1880’s when chromolithography was applied to pictures.
But the production of cigarette cards peaked during 1920-40. Collecting investors no doubt would hunt for cigarette cards in this era. The most expensive sets would come from this particular period.
The reason being, there were many, many smaller cigarette companies as oppose to today’s tobacco giant companies, thus each of these smaller companies produced their own garden variety of cigarette cards.
The most expensive sets are from the smallest companies.
You can pick up incomplete sets for less prices but you just going to have to do individual hunt for the missing pieces to complete your set.
During the end of the first world war, several large tobacco consortiums were formed consequently putting the smaller companies out of business, thus the production of the cigarette cards began to decline.
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