[Rarebooks] FS: Wholesale lot: 2 albums of cigarette cards

[The Prints & The Paper]

FS: Wholesale lot: 2 albums of cigarette cards

Please note condition on these:

1 “Scrap Album” (early 20th C, decorative cover, moderately worn but badly
faded at spine). 12 pages with cigarette cards affixed (on recto only);
adhesive not identified but NOT wheat paste. A variety of topics and
companies represented, around 145 cards in all. Some B&W, many
chromolithograph. Images include military (uniforms, battleships, officers
from various campaigns), humor, English landmark views, armorial, “pretty
women.” Some manufacturers are Ogden’s, Morris’s, Salmon & Glukstein’s, Wm
Clark & sons, Grenadier, Adkin & Sons, Godfrey Phillips & Sons. Some not
identified on fronts where visible. Most G-VG aside from being glued down.

2. Uniformen Der Alten Armee. Waldorf-Astoria, Munich. No date (c. 1930s).
311 (of 312) color printed cards of military uniforms (German) in a
designated album, all text and captions in German. Heavy card covers ,
spine splits need repair, edges worn with a couple of tears, short closed
tear through bottom margin of most pages. Most cards VG (only one noted that
is a bit wrinkled), adhered to album pages. (One missing as noted above). If
nothing else, these cards would make good replacements in an incomplete
album in better condition.

Both albums together, $65 plus $10 PH (priority)  to USA destinations,
elsewhere at  USD $65 plus postage cost.
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