Verso of card featuring children from Allen & Ginter Advertising Cards (H233)

Publisher Allen & Ginter American
 Lithographer A. Hoen & Co. American

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From Allen & Ginter Advertising Cards (H233). Issued in the 1880s by Allen & Ginter, Richmond Virginia. Front: color scenes of children in various tableaus. Gold edges. Back: advertising for Pet Cigarettes and Richmond Straight Cut brands. A. Hoen lithographers. Printed on card: THE/ RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT No. 1./ AND/ PET CIGARETTES/ are made from the brightest, most delicate/ flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf To/ bacco grown in Virginia. They are un-/ equaled for their delicate aroma and rare/ fragrance, and are absolutely without Adul-/ teration or Drugs. Both brands are made/ from the same stock. Pet Cigarettes are/ longer and slimmer than the Richmond/ Straight Cut Nr. 1, but the same weight./ ALLEN & GINTER,/ MANUFACTURERS,/ LEWIS GINTER,/ JOHN POPE.} / RICHMOND/ VA.

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