(Parasol) Handle to lips – Kiss me, from the series Types of Flirtation (N260) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Lorillard's Snuff

Publisher Issued by P. Lorillard Company American

Lithographer George S. Harris & Sons American

1880s

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Trade cards from the series Types of Flirtation (N260) issued by P. Lorillard Company in the 1880s to promote Lorillard's Snuff. 25 cards in set. Card includes a "Lovely lady" gesturing with an object of "flirtation". Back includes gesture and gesture's meaning as well as advertising and lithographer's name. Back: FLIRTATION/ (PARASOL)/ Handle to lips – / Kiss me./ OLDEST AND BEST IN THE WORLD/ LORILLARD'S/ SNUFF/ MANUFACTURED SINCE 1760/ Long experience enables us/ to produce the very best arti/-cle possible./ Consumers have the benefit/ of this experience, and in buy/-ing our Snuffs are assured of/ the highest quality./ Beware of adulterated and/ injurious Snuffs -- Get the/ Best only -- Buy Lorillard's./ P. Lorillard Company (in script)/ GEO. S. HARRIS & SONS. LITH. PHILA.

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Title: (Parasol) Handle to lips – Kiss me, from the series Types of Flirtation (N260) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Lorillard's Snuff
Publisher: Issued by P. Lorillard Company (American)
Lithographer: George S. Harris & Sons (American, Philadelphia)
Date: 1880s
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/4 in. × 2 in. (9.5 × 5.1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Object Number: Burdick 221, N260.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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