1888 Duke Snapshots from Puck Set and Checklist (N128)
‘It’s In The Details’
Title | Duke Snapshots from Puck (N128) |
Year | 1888 |
Size | 2 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ |
Images | Color |
Type | 19th Century Tobacco |
Number in Set |
25 |
1888 Duke Snapshots from Puck Set Overview
This 25-card lithographic set was titled ‘Snapshots from Puck’ and was issued by Duke Tobacco around 1888. The cards were packaged inside of Duke’s Honest Long Cut tobacco products.
As Goldin Auction cites here, Puck was a popular 19th century publication focusing on humor. Cards from this set depict cartoon images of various situations, featuring images used in that publication. Mostly a non-sports set, a few sports cards are found here.
One features a cartoon illustration of a tennis player and another man trying to cross a plank at the same time. Another is a billiards scene.
Cards feature color lithographs with each one having a caption and description of what is happening in the picture. Backs of the cards indicate there are 25 snapshots taken from Puck as well as a brief advertisement for W. Duke Sons & Company tobacco, based out of North Carolina and New York.
1888 Duke Snapshots from Puck Checklist
- Accumulative instinct
- All he had
- Beneath his notice
- Crack at the truth
- Dangerous precedent
- Don’t move (Billiards)
- His first look at the new fountain
- Improvised pastille
- Miss Arenheim’s wedding
- Museum of art
- Nature of a privilege
- Jupiter Pluvius outdone
- More than one way (Tennis)
- Natural mistake
- Not used to it
- On the bridge
- On the New York and New Haven Railroad
- On the way to the station
- Poetry repeats itself
- Presence of mind
- She knew his whiskers
- Sport on the lots
- Subterfuge
- Unsofisticated
- What we see on the ferries
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