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2024/136/1-3
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Three John Player and Sons cigarette cards from the series ‘Cries of London’. Cigarette cards were used as advertising for cigarette companies. Each card depicts a figure on the front with their cry of goods for sale and information on the reverse. The cry’s are: 'Maids, buy a mop’, ‘Buy my Dutch biskets’ and ‘Windmills’. They come from a second series of 25 cards produced in 1916. Part of the Robert Dawson Romany collection.
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3 cigarette cards: paper
Archival history
Pre-MERL list – '3 Player’s cigarette cards of Gypsy ‘cries of London’ people. C 1920.'
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1916 - 1916
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