Auction #8 - June 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/28/2021
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 (16) Cards includes the following subjects: Banjo, Bass Viol, Bells, Clarinet, Concertina, Fife, Guitar, Herald's Trumpet, Hunting Horn, Kettle Drum, Pandean Pipes, Roman Horn, Seimseim, Trombone, Tumblers and Violin. All cards in the group are in clean VG to EX condition with most being around VGEX. There are no cards with any major issues and this lot represents about 1/3 of a complete set. These cards rarely come up in groups this large, so this is a great opportunity to start this set with a good, strong lot.
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