Auction #11 - June 2022

All > 19th Century Tobacco

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This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/26/2022

The N240 Kinney Types of Nationalities is a 25 card set. The cards are tri-folder type cards that transform the subjects on them into multiple characters. Different companies used the bi- or trifold format for a number of turn of the century tobacco sets. This set pictures characters from many different countries. The back's can be found in four formats for a master set total of 100 cards. The backs can be found with white or brown background coloring. Within the white backgrounds, they can be found with vertical or horizontal printing. Within the brown backgrounds, they can be found with either gold or black printing on the brown background.

This lot is for a single piece of album paper with parts of a number of N240 Kinney cards glued onto the page. The Kinney N240 Types of Nationalities cards come in a (3) panel trifold setup that, in this case, was used to create a kind of folk-art type setup. The cards were obviously detached and the two end panels were glued onto the paper such that they could be moved up or down to produce two different images. The middle panels were glued separately into spots making one side of the page have (5) sets of end panels and (4) sets of center panels with the back of the page having the opposite setup. Technically poor, this is an interesting piece, likely created around the turn of the century and glued into a book with the Lone Jack Celebrities in another lot as well as a group of actress in another lot in this auction.