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National Tobacco Company Ltd :It's toasted. No other brands are genuine; refuse all imitations. Riverhead Gold navy cut no. 3, cut plug no. 10, Cavendish mixture. The only toasted tobacco on the New Zealand market. No cough, no bite; does not injure heart lungs, or throat. Medical authorities recommend it [1940s?]
- Date
- 1935 - 1949
- By
- National Tobacco Company Ltd
- Reference
- Eph-C-TOBACCO-NTC-1940s-02
- Description
Advertising card, basically rectangular, with four circular insets standing out at each corner. The rectangular panel contains text, and each corner shows an illustration: a bull advertising cut plug no. 10 tobacco; a pipe-smoking bulldog advertising toasted no. 3 navy cut; a woman lighting her pipe advertising Cavendish sporting mixture; and a woman harvesting tobacco leaves advertising Riverhead Gold tobacco.
Riverhead Gold tobacco was produced in the Napier factory of the National Tobacco Company from 1923, using tobacco grown at Riverhead, Auckland. However the image of the young woman on this card was published as an advertisement in 1945; see back cover of Stan Lawson production "Let's be happy" at Eph-A-CABOT-Variety-1945.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 258 x 357 mm (irregular)
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original. File print in Ephemera Room
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- National Tobacco Company Ltd :[Nine tobacco advertising cards. 1920-1940s]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Advertisements, Posters, Photolithograph on card, 258 x 357 mm (irregular), Orientation: Horizontal image
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National Tobacco Company Ltd. National Tobacco Company Ltd :It's toasted. No other brands are genuine; refuse all imitations. Riverhead Gold navy cut no. 3, cut plug no. 10, Cavendish mixture. The only toasted tobacco on the New Zealand market. No cough, no bite; does not injure heart lungs, or throat. Medical authorities recommend it [1940s?]. National Tobacco Company Ltd :[Nine tobacco advertising cards. 1920-1940s]. Ref: Eph-C-TOBACCO-NTC-1940s-02. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22781367More information can be found in our terms of use.