Cigarette card
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Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.
A Gros Ventre Chief featured on an Allen & Ginter card, 1888
Daisy Greville featured on a Player's card, c. 1890
English footballer Walter Bull depicted on an Ogden's card, c. 1906
Walter Smaill illustration on an Imperial Tobacco Canada card, c. 1910
W.D. & H.O. Wills
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W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England. It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company ; these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.
Wills former factory in Newcastle upon Tyne, pictured in 2009
Henry O. Wills, founder
The former W.D. & H.O. Wills warehouse building in Perth, pictured in 2018
Cut Golden Bar tobacco tin