Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Carreras, Ltd. (Firm)
Title:
The nose game : a series of five sets of types each set comprising ten different cards.
Published / Created:
London : Arcadia Works, [1927]
Physical Description:
[50] cigarette cards : color illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE965.3.G7 C37 1927 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Deck divided into 5 nasal types: the impulsive nose, the inquisitive nose, the aggressive, nose, the artistic nose, and the commercial nose. Nurses and soldiers are represented as this was issued immediately following the First World War.

Date of publication from Complete catalogue of British cigarette cards.

Complete catalogue of British cigarette cards. Exeter : Webbs and Bower, 1981, page 142

BAC: British Art Center incomplete: nos. A (3, 6, 9), B (6, 10), C (4, 6, 8), D (1, 3, 9), and E (4, 5, 10) only. Lacks box and instructions.
Subject Terms:
Cigarette cards -- Great Britain. | Advertising -- Cigarettes. | Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Caricature -- Great Britain. | Wit and humor, English. | Satire, English. | Noses -- Pictorial works. | Soldiers. | Nurses. | Arcadia Works -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Ephemera. | Caricatures. | Cigarette cards. | Trade cards (advertising) | Advertising cards. | Photomechanical prints -- 1927.