The N29 and N43 Allen & Ginter Sets

[Steve D]

According to the American Tobacco Cards Price Guide & Checklist by Robert Forbes and Terence Mitchell, the ten Allen & Ginter sets from N35 - N44 are all large format sets, that reuse the same artwork as found in the following sets:

N35 American Editors = N1
N36 The American Indian = N2
N37 Birds of America = N4
N38 Birds of the Tropics = N5
N39 Fish from American Waters = N8
N40 Game Birds = N13
N41 Quadrupeds = N21
N42 Song Birds of the World = N23
N43 The World's Champions = N29
N44 The World's Decorations = N30

The back of each card says that a card is packed in each box of 20 cigarettes. The book's writeup for the N35 set says that each card was packed in a "tin".

It also indicates that the sets were all issued in the 1887-1890 period, so it appears that it's just a simple case of A&G expanding the artwork from the smaller cards, to fit a larger card in a larger cigarette package.

I haven't found any indication that other companies did this.

Steve

[swarmee]

LeRoy cigars made larger versions of their T63 Generals set: either gold bordered or white bordered around the gold border.
1948 Bowman Football can be either large or small.
T202 Triple Folders have overlap with the T205 set for the side images, right?

[Mdmtx]

Originally Posted by Steve D

According to the American Tobacco Cards Price Guide & Checklist by Robert Forbes and Terence Mitchell, the ten Allen & Ginter sets from N35 - N44 are all large format sets, that reuse the same artwork as found in the following sets:

N35 American Editors = N1
N36 The American Indian = N2
N37 Birds of America = N4
N38 Birds of the Tropics = N5
N39 Fish from American Waters = N8
N40 Game Birds = N13
N41 Quadrupeds = N21
N42 Song Birds of the World = N23
N43 The World's Champions = N29
N44 The World's Decorations = N30

The back of each card says that a card is packed in each box of 20 cigarettes. The book's writeup for the N35 set says that each card was packed in a "tin".

It also indicates that the sets were all issued in the 1887-1890 period, so it appears that it's just a simple case of A&G expanding the artwork from the smaller cards, to fit a larger card in a larger cigarette package.

I haven't found any indication that other companies did this.

Steve

There are others by different manufacturers like terrors of America. Yacht colors. Jokes etc. I'm not with my reference material at present.

Mark