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Cigarette Card
books from Waldorf Astoria
Nice picture books. A
cigarette card (like a flimsy baseball card) pasted into
an album. Given as bonuses to a purchase of cigarettes.
(Who ever ate the bubble gum with baseball cards?) Nice
to wonderful pictures. Shows uniforms per units as
organized in Corps. That is the way folks thought of
units .... part of XI Corps for instance. The
organization with the uniforms is instructive. Nice
pictures... hard to discern detail. What do you do with
them except look? Nice OB information I think these
were done in the 1930s. Now if you got one card per
pack of cigarettes and there are 312 cards in the red
book ... considering some doubles ... that is a LOT of
cigarettes. Prices on these are all over the map. I
have seen single volumes go for $125 down to $20. Make
sure they are complete. Lots of them out there so don't
be in a rush.
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