Antique Tobacco Card Lot 4 Duke Honest Long Cut E17 Cuba Flag Victorian For Sale

Mixed lot of four original antique illustrated collectible cards, dating from the late 19th to early 20th century.

Included:

1. Lillian Grubb, Witch Hazel: Victorian actress and floral tobacco advertising card for Duke's Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco. Appears to be from the circa 1888 Fairest Flowers of the World series (N106). Card has been trimmed, with portions of the original border and reverse text missing.

2. Cuba Flag: Early 1900s E17 Flags series confectionery insert issued by Sibley & Holmwood of Buffalo, New York, advertising Eclipse Licorice Drops. Beautiful multicolor illustration featuring the Cuban flag and coastal fortress. This is a candy advertising card, not a tobacco issue.

3. Victorian Girl Portrait: Antique illustrated card featuring a young woman with her finger to her lips, decorative roses, and softly colored Victorian artwork. Publisher unidentified.

4. Victorian Lady Portrait: Antique color illustration depicting a young woman in a decorative hat with flowers and ribbon. Publisher Original antique cards showing varying degrees of age-related wear, including discoloration, edge wear, surface wear, trimming and paper loss on the backs. Please examine all photographs for individual condition.

   An interesting mixed group for collectors of early tobacco advertising, confectionery inserts, Victorian chromolithographs and antique paper ephemera.