Auction #15 - October 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/29/2023
The American Tobacco Company (ATC) issued a number of sets to be inserted into packages of cigarettes sold overseas--mostly in the UK--in an effort to combat the newly formed British American Tobacco (BAT) company. The "Tobacco War" era as it was called was one of fierce competition for the cigarette tastes of the UK and European market. To that end, both the ATC and BAT created card sets as inserts into their packages for this lucrative market. Most all of these sets were cataloged by Burdick in the T400-T499 range. Many are quite scarce and are most frequently found still in the UK rather than in the United States. In many instances, artwork was used from previous sets from Kinney, Kimball and other 19th century popular series. In other instances, new artwork was commissioned.
The T415 American Tobacco Company (ATC) Musical Instruments set is a (50) card set picturing women playing musical instruments of the day from countries all around the world. The backs of the cards are typeset with advertising for ATC.
This lot of (32) cards from the T415 American Tobacco Company (ATC) Musical Instruments set are in a very consistent VG to EXMT condition with no major issues, averaging around VGEX to EX. Beautiful group that represents over 60% of a complete set.
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