1888 Kinney Famous Running Horses / Famous American Trotters Photos (N239) Set and Checklist

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

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Title	Kinney Famous Running Horses / Famous American Trotters Photos (N239)
Year	1888
Size	8″ x 10″ and 10″ x 12″
Images	Color
Type	19th Century Tobacco
Number in Set	100

1888 Kinney Famous Running Horses / Famous American Trotters Photos (N239) Overview

Kinney Brothers was a popular tobacco brand that issued several sets of horse racing cards in the late 1800s. In addition to issuing cigarette cards, the company offered a special premium item to collectors.

In exchange for 25 of their cigarette cards, a collector could receive a larger photo of a horse. The cards could be taken from any one of three Kinney horse racing sets, known today as the N229 Famous Running Horses (American horses), N230 Famous Running Horses (English horses), or the N231 Great American Trotters sets.

In all, it is believed that 100 of these photos were available. However, they are fairly rare and whether or not all 100 can be found today is not known.

One option that was given is a collector could receive a large photo of a racehorse featured in either the N229 or N230 sets. In addition, another 25 photos of different American racehorses were also available. With 25 cards in each N229 and N230, that meant a total of 75 of those photos were available. These photos were all 8″ x 10″ in size.

A second option was to secure a photo of one of the horses in the N231 set. Those photos were slightly larger, measuring 10″ x 12″ in size.