Great American Smoke Out
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Today is the 35th Annual Great American Smoke Out.
.If you are going 'cold turkey' today - you have my best.
I've never smoked myself, but if I'd have been around at the turn
of the century, I might have been a puffer.
Yep, just to collect tobacco cards.
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If you are a regular, you know I am a collector.
.In the category: Ephemera, / sub group: Tobacciana, / sub-sub group: Tobacco Cards, I collect the Hassan Cowboy series.
.Everything about these cards is appealing to me.  I think if I had been around when these cuties were issued, I'd have been a closet smoker just to have an excuse to collect them.  I love the Victorian graphics and litho-printing techniques. The cliche' rope frames that encircle images of "everyday cowboy life" and the hysterical descriptions on the backs of the cards are delightful. Get a load of this one:
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The cowboys are a hard lot to look at. Their life is not one for weaklings. Beneath the rough exterior, however there are no truer-hearted men, and their voices always soften when somebody talks of home and "mammy."
Is that great or what? ... a hard lot to look - yeah and that "lot" inspires me everyday!
. [caption id="attachment_7273" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="Double D Ranch Home Collection's Hassan Chair"]
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