storing tobacco cards in the old days

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Posted By: pat

any thoughts on how people stored tobacco cards in the old days. for instance last year i was at an antique auction and inside the top drawer of a hutch was a group of about 15 tobacco cards. the hutch (and cards inside) went for about 1500 bucks. now since i know just about nothing about these things, i didnt bid. now just recently my girlfreind's friend at work had a father who died. i found out that his father's father worked for american tobacco co way back when. so i figure anything the grandfather had would have gone to the father already. now right off the bat she mentioned that she didnt find any cards yet while looking through the house, etc. she has to dispose of the estate. now she apparently has tons of books. so i mentioned that back then i would think that people may store the cards in books to keep them relatively safe. obviously before plastics so how else were these things stored? any thougts.