FRAMED CIGARETTE TRADING CARD, FLOWER POT SERIES’ CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 1904

WILLS’ CIGARETTE TRADING CARD FROM THE FLOWER POT SERIES, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 1904

CIGARETTE TRADING CARDS were issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Early American cigarette cards depicted actors, writers, sports figures, military figures, and American Indian Chiefs. Duplantier has “Flowers in a Pot”, Ameican Indian Chefs and Dog Breeds series Chrysanthemums is framed in a gold metal leaf metal moulding from France, floated on a raw silk mat board with a v-groove cut on the top mat (v-grooves replace double mat and give a mat a sophistication) under conservation glass.