[Two women in shell shapes] from P. Lorillard Tobacco Company (HP1b)
Publisher P. Lorillard Company American
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Issued ca.1881 by P. Lorillard Tobacco Company. Images of two women pictured in clam shell shapes. Between two "sides" is faux wood "easel" and "box" with Climax Grade red circles. Shaped card. Left image at bottom, in script: Lorillards/ Climax. Right image at bottom, in script: Red Tin Tag/ Tobacco. At top of "easel" in circle (upside down): CHAS. SHIELDS SONS/ SOLE/ LICENSEES/ Patent allowed Jan. 27, 1881. Note: HP1b has been assigned as a "catch all" for advertising cards for the companies Lorillard and Marburg and covers a number of and wide variety of subjects and images.
