"He Ain't Much On Speed"..., Seal of North Carolina Smoking Tobacco from Marburg Bros.Tobacco Company (HP1b)
Publisher Marburg Brothers American
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Issued ca.1880–95 by Marburg Bros.Tobacco Company, Baltimore. One of eight cards attached at upper left by a grommet. Children on horseback. Black background. At lower left is image of tobacco package. At bottom in yellow: "HE AIN'T MUCH ON SPEED, IS HE, ZEEK?"/ "NO-'CEPT WHEN HE GITS MAD." Back includes statistics on various running and walking, amateur and professional athletic records. 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.