Velvet Smoking Tobacco
- Antiminth Oral Suspension
- Advertisements for the Film "Three Fables of Love"
- Printing block for an advertisement for "Three Fables of Love"
- Other Movie and TV Ads
- Business Cards
- Drake-Wiltshire Postcards
- Gabutti French Pain Reliever Advertisements
- Gibbs Cosmetics from "L'Illustration"
- Gobey Laxative Syrup
- Gustave Guérin MM Pamphlet
- Individual Advertising Pieces
- L'Illustration advertisements by Benjamin Rabier
- Kingfisher Institute Cocktail Party
- Merrill Lynch
- Milne Wood Frictographic Pamphlets
- Nestle Advertising Cards
- Rising Sun Stove Polish
- Sauba Frictographic Hidden-Picture Slips
- Velvet Smoking Tobacco
1916 Advertisement for Velvet Smoking Tobacco. Quarter-page. “The Saturday Evening Post,” August 16, 1916. Unknown source.
Collecting continues to occasion surprises. I worked long to guess at a good date for a Velvet advertisement I found without convenient time-reference. I looked up differences in referring to “Velvet Joe” and the look of the tobacco tin. I arrived at a date estimate of 1925. Now I have found this advertisement using the same material for structuring it differently, in a magazine from 1916. Should I revise my earlier guess? Notice pleasant differences between the two advertisements, caused perhaps by their different shapes.
1925? Velvet Smoking Tobacco. Unknown magazine. $10 from an unknown source, Feb., '24.
"A race ain't all in getting' started first" says the terrapin as he passes the rabbit on the road. The bespectacled terrapin is of course smoking a pipe as he passes the sleeping hare. It has been fun trying to date this advertisement. Clues include the reference to "Velvet Joe" and the markings on the tobacco tin. Velvet is boasting of the slow start their tobacco gets by being aged two years.