Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, Coins etc.

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Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Alois (also spelled Aloys) Senefelder was the German inventor of lithography.
This series depicting inventors was never issued as individual cards and only released in album form.

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Grolier Story of America Cards. Grolier Story of America cards were released in decks of 20 cards from 1994 to 2001.  This was a subscription card set, which meant you had to remit payment to the company each month to continue your collection.  The cards were never available as a retail set, only as a subscription during their original print run. Issued in decks of 20 cards on a monthly subscription basis. There were 126 decks issued for a total of 2,520 cards.
Number 34.17 features Ottmar Mergenthaler

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1964 Liebig L'arte litografica (Lithographic Art) (Italian Text)   set of 6 cards

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Issued on 7 May 1982 500 Schilling coin to celebrate 500 Years of Austrian Printing




Obverse: Coat of Arms of the 9 Austrian States & Austria
Lettering: REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
500 SCHILLING
Reverse: Ancient printing system, date at bottom
Lettering: 500 Jahre Druck in Oerterreich
BODLAK 1982
Designers: obverse: Edwin Grienauer
reverse: Kurt Bodlak

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Leadng on from post 16. Another card this one dates from 1979

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Issued by Spain in 2000 - 1,500 Pesetas (Millenium)




Front: Antique printing press left of letters MILENIO inside geometric design
above (value) 1500 / PTAS (Pesetas)
(top-left, mintmark) ♔M (Spanish Mint, Madrid)
legend: none
Back: Head King John Charles I (left, 1975-2014)
legend: (ruler) JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA
(low-left/right, spacers/dots) •
(bottom, year) 2000

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F. Moras' Lithographic Establishment, Philadelphia  between 1867 and 1869
Advertising or large business card shows two vignettes, on the left, a man is sitting at a table, drawing on a lithograph stone, and on the right, is an interior view of the lithographic establishment with men inking stones and operating presses.

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Wagner & McGuigan's Steam Lithographic Printing Establishment between 1850 and 1857
Print shows printing plant, printers at work, and symbols of the printing trade and the United States to advertise the firm.

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Printing Presses, Tableau des divers systêmes de pression (Survey of different printing presses) including a plate press, a lithographic press, and several book printing presses. C.1850.
height 530 mm × width 700 mm

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Cigar band from Tabacos Capote S.A. 1980 from Spain.