Cigarette Card Collection - Tobacco Card History | Out of the Collection

In this episode, Jeremy shares this history, as well as a set of the 1938 Imperial Tobacco Company Cigarette Cards depicting some of Hollywood's biggest stars! Key cards include Vivien Leigh, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and several other major Hollywood stars.

Professor Jeremy Patrich, (The Backyard Geographer) welcomes you to another exciting episode from Out of The Collection! He has been diligently cleaning up in his garage and is very excited to share some of the items he is rediscovering from inside his private collection. Being an eclectic collector for most of his life, you just never know what to expect.

Fun Fact: Did you know that the most valuable cigarette card in the world features Honus Wagner, one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century, sold for $3,120,000?! Between 1875 and the 1940s, cigarette companies often included collectible cards with their packages of cigarettes. Cigarette card sets document popular culture from the turn of the century, often depicting the period's actresses, costumes, and sports, as well as offering insights into mainstream humor and cultural norms.

A special thanks to YouTube for the great music and thank you to my Director, Producer, and Editor Nicole VanBroekhuizen... and for letting me borrow your Cigarette Cards for this video!

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Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.

Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, boxers, national flags, or wild animals were issued by the U.S.-based Allen & Ginter tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards.[2] Other tobacco companies such as Goodwin & Co. soon followed suit. They first emerged in the U.S., then the UK, then, eventually, in many other countries.

In the UK, W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1887 was one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was John Player & Sons in 1893 that produced one of the first general-interest sets 'Castles and Abbeys'.

Thomas Ogden soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set 'Ships and Sailors', followed by 'Cricketers' in 1896. In 1906, Ogden's produced a set of association football cards depicting footballers in their club colors, in one of the first full-color sets.