Lot 88: An Assortment of Vintage Advertising Tins, Tobacco Ephemera, and Personal Stationery

A collection of vintage personal items and advertising ephemera comprising various tins, stationery, and tobacco-related products. The lot includes a red Five Year Diary with a gold-tone zipper closure, featuring the title Five Year Diary embossed in gold script on the front cover. An accompanying black leatherette folding accessory case features a central gold-tone metal clasp.

Stationery items include a boxed deck of Congress Playing Cards, with the two-part cardboard box marked CONGRESS Playing Cards and CEL-U-TONE FINISH, displaying two different floral designs of lilies and carnations. A small rectangular metal tin with a black ground is decorated with a white and pink peony floral design.

Advertising and tobacco items include a dark red Boots brand tin for GLYCERIN AND BLACKCURRANT PASTILLES with gold-tone lettering. A Fisherman’s Friend lozenge tin displays an illustration of a fisherman and a ship. Tobacco ephemera consists of a Henri Wintermans cigar tin containing ten small cigars, a cardboard pack of Player’s Navy Cut Cigarettes (Mild) featuring the sailor motif, and a similar pack of Player’s Navy Cut Cigarettes (Medium) which includes the slogan It’s the Tobacco that Counts.