Vintage Thingy Thursday June 2

I've been visiting ebay again, friends, and picking up tobacco silks.  Oh, this has to stop.

Two queens, Marie-Theresa of Austria, 1840 - 1863, and Esther, 200 BC - yes, the Esther from the Bible.  A bit of fraying here but looking good, for being almost 100 years old.  Very Vintage!!!  These were inserts or premiums, in tobacco products, much as little toys are in cereal boxes today.

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Vintage Thingy Thursday May 26

Oh dear!  I can't find a way to turn this right side up.  You will just have to tilt your head.

I last wrote about tobacco silks on April 27.  They were given as premiums in packages of tobacco or cigarettes.  You can read more about them HERE.  Since that time I have bought a few more on ebay, including this one.  This one is large, about 4 by 6 inches, and is a reproduction of a Gainsborough painting.

According to Wikipedia: "The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this was never proved. It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth in his 17th-century apparel is regarded as Gainsborough's homage to Anthony Van Dyck, and in particular is very close to Van Dyck's portrait of Charles II as a boy."

I am joining ColoradoLady for Vintage Thingy Thursday!

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VTT: cigarette silks

Happy Vintage Thingy Thursday!  Today I am sharing two cigarette silks from early in the 20th century, perhaps 1910's to 1920's. They are of Queen Isabella of Spain and of a parakeet. The images are printed on silk and look as if they could become part of a quilt.  And that was the plan.  These were premiums or prizes to encourage women to smoke, or to encourage their husbands to smoke - if you can imagine that.  How times have changed.

Learn more about tobacco premiums HERE.




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