CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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Cigarette card. The earliest appearance of Winston Churchill on a cigarette card, capitalizing on his Boer War fame."Cigarette cards were first introduced in 1878 in the USA, but did not arrive in Britain until 1901, when the American Tobacco Company acquired the Liverpool factory of Ogden's... Churchill featured on more than thirty cards between 1901 and 1939. Original cards are highly collectable" (Hall, p. 48). The card uses the portrait taken by Elliott & Fry in 1899. There are a few known variants of the card's design, and it is unknown which, if any, has primacy.

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