Various artists :[19 cigarette cards with the New Zealand flag and other iconography. 1890s-1955]

Includes:

1. Hill's Cigarettes. No. 1. New Zealand Mounted Rifles. [ca 1900]

2. Cohen, Weenen & Co., London. NZ Mounted Rifles. [ca 1900]

3. I Rutter & Co's Mitcham Cigarettes. New Zealand [shows mounted soldier and initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900]

4. Pascalls Court Chocolates. Initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900]

5. Cope's Cigarettes. New Zealand [shows Maori woman against initial design of United Tribes of NZ flag]. [ca 1900]

6. Cope's cigarettes. The world's police: 4. Inspector, New Zealand [1890s?]

7. W D & H O Wills Cigarettes. New Zealand Ensign [red code signals flag ca 1899?]

8. John Player & Sons. No. 27: Flag; New Zealand emblem, British colony [ca 1900?]

9. Havelock Tobacco. Havelock Cigarettes. No 27: New Zealand [Maori man, clock and royal seal. Ca 1905]

10. John Player and Sons. National flags and arms. 31. New Zealand [after 1911]

11. John Player & Sons. Players Cigarettes. Army Corps & divisional signs 1914-1918. 2nd series no. 124. New Zealand Division: Silver fern [1920s?]

12. W D & H O Wills. Wills Cigarettes. Military motors, no. 25: Motor ambulance, New Zealand [1920s?]

13. John Player & Sons. Player's Cigarettes. Military uniforms of the British Empire overseas. No. 11: New Zealand Mounted Rifles [1930s]

14. Ogden's Cigarettes. Series of 50 flags and funnels of leading steamship line. No. 21: Shaw Savill and Albion Line. House flag and funnel [1930s?]

15. Ogden's Cigarettes. Series of 50 flags and funnels of leading steamship lines. No.6. New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd. House flag & funnel [1930s?]

16. Ogden's Cigarettes. Children of all nations. No. 50: New Zealand [1930s?]

17. Kensitas Cigarettes. British Empire; blue ensign of New Zealand. Printed in USA [Print on silk. Pre 1949]

18. Nieuw-Zeeland. Profile portrait of a young blond girl, on silk. 1930-1940s?]

19. Flags of the World. No. 68. New Zealand [ca 1955]

Includes advertisement for Havelock Tobacco, manufactured in Richmond, Virginia.

Quantity: 19 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Chromolithographs and offset prints, on cards, sizes varying around 70 x 40 mm.

Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2014.