Turkey Red cabinet (T3) ad backs

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

As we know Turkey Red cabinets (T3) were issued from May 1, 1910 to June 30, 1911. There are five different backs. Four are checklists the other is the Turkey Red Cigarette ad.

In the current edition of the Old Cardboard magazine there is an image of a 1910 photograph of the storefront of the Dunbar & Company on the editor’s page. This picture was originally part of the Sporting Life Cabinet article but was edited out due to the magazine’s space limitations.

The picture shows a spectacular window display that includes 29 Turkey Red cabinets. My original description and comments of the display were not included with the picture. In my opinion these were advertising back cabinets and that all ad backs were made distinctly for distribution to customers at the point of sale of their product.

Comments?

If you do not have the OC handy go to:

http://www.freewebs.com/jsw600/dunbar.htm