Cigarette card
Kensitas Cigarettes
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Fabric and waxed paper
Measurements
Envelope - 55 mm (width); 80 mm (height), Each card (min) - 48 mm (width); 69 mm (height), Each card (max) - 54 mm (width); 72 mm (height)
Place of origin
United States
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670741
Summary
A white cardboard box entitled 'Made by Yardley, Lemon Verbena Soap for the National Trust' containing thirty empty waxed paper envelopes, fifty nine fabric cigarette cards in envelopes, sixty five fabric cigarette cards (unwrapped). One cigarette card is printed on cream cloth entitled 'Muratti Cigarettes...Napoleon on board, The Bellerophon'. The others are printed in colour on white silky man-made fabric and belong to four different sets entitled 'Kensitas Cigarettes, British Empire; ninety six flags, some duplicates, entitled 'Kensitas Cigarettes, A Series Of 60 National Flags'; seven entitled 'B.D.V. Cigarettes', reproductions of named paintings; eleven entitled 'B.D.V. Cigarettes' Bird Illustrations; eight (four duplicates) Total number of items is 213.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr Lawrence Bray in October 1978.
Makers and roles
Kensitas Cigarettes , issuer