SOLD WW2 German Cigarette Card From AH Set . GD926

WW2 German Large Cigarette Card of a drawing done by Hitler in the summer of 1917, as a frontline soldier, in Flanders. Card from AH Album Collective work No. 15, Group 62, Card 103. Cigarette card measures approximately 4 1/2 inches x 6 1/2 inches. Worn condition.

Additional Notes: Cigarette cards were a long-held tradition in Germany dating to the 1890’s with WW2 marking a huge increase in these collectible cards. These small illustrated inexpensive cards were included in all cigarette packages and were collected and traded widely. These cards were manufactured by the Cigarette Fabrik Constantin, in Dresden and Berlin. Larger cigarette cards, ones that could not fit into a cigarette package, were introduced later as an added collectible. You would receive points upon purchase of cigarettes and these points could be accumulated and mailed into the manufacturer for larger collectible cards sets. Books, or albums, of a highly descriptive nature were also purchased from cigarette companies, where you could paste in your cards in blank spaces provided in the books. Some of these books could contain as many as 1000 cards. Just as in sports cards these were highly collectible and very tradeable. Books for sets included: Adolf Hitler, Deutschland Erwache and Kampf ums Dritte Reich.

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