chesterfield cigarettes. not a cough in a carload.  lucky strike green goes to war.

 

1. I think I smoked some of those very cigarettes from C-Rats provided in Vietnam. 

   Anyhow, they had spent the past decades crushed under huge number of cases and were square shaped.  Also dry as dust.

   Posted by Chops       12/11/2009  at  02:59 PM  



2. It’s no wonder that Odgen cigs are long out of business. Yikes. They probably thought the guys would collect all these “babes”. Double yikes. But if they did, and stored them away, those things are worth a fortune today. Some fetch $1000 at auction. Triple yikes!

   http://www.warwickandwarwick.com/pages/cigarette.htm

   I never heard of cigarette cards before. Maybe this is/was mostly a British thing, but it seems to be the same idea as baseball cards. Only with smokes instead of gum.

   Posted by Drew458       12/11/2009  at  03:00 PM  



3. Drew ... How ,, where ,,, how’d you find those? That link is awesome.  Hoe did you know to go to that exact link?

   Posted by peiper       12/11/2009  at  03:14 PM  



4. Google is my bitch. But I pasted in the best link I found from many others.

   try “Ogden cigarette cards”. Oh heck, just type “ogden cig” and see what comes up. Although I did hit a couple other links first, found the name of a specific series of cards (e.g. “beautiful women")- they did everything, sports stars, even Star Trek - and then googled for that. I may have put the word “auction” into the search string as well, once I found that some of these cards were going for hundreds of pounds. “ogden cigarette cards beautiful women auction” works, yup, and the above link is #2.

   Posted by Drew458       12/12/2009  at  07:19 AM  

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