Auction #4 - January 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/26/2020
Fantastic 5.5" by 7.5" cabinet card picturing Fay Templeton from Duke Cigarettes. This cabinet card advertises Duke's Turkish Cross-Cut Cigarettes product. The mount is a dark gray to black and identifies W. Duke & Sons of Durham NC and New York as the 'largest cigarette manufacturers in the world'. It also notes that Duke's average daily sales was over two million cigarettes at the time. Fay Templeton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on Christmas Day of 1865. She died in 1939 and likely would have been in her mid to late 20's when this photo was taken.
The cabinet is in graded by SGC as VGEX50 with just some wear to the corners. The mount has printing done in blue that is very nice for the time frame. The back is mostly clean.
Duke Tobacco Turkish Cross Cut Maude Granger Tobacco Cabinet SGC50 VGEX
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