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Auction: CSS39 - The Numismatic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1259

Qing Dynasty, a pair of photographic cigarette cards featuring Li Hung Chang during the late Qing period, published by Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes, a common form of photographic material circulated in the late 19th and 20th centuries as part of cigarette packaging, and Ogden's cigarette cards have featured high profile individuals such as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (in office between 1874-1880) and Ito Hirobumi, one of the most prominent statesman of the Meiji period in modern Japanese history,
about extremely fine, well preserved (2)

Sold for
HK$4,000