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4" x 3-3/8" new fridge photo magnet of 1870s vintage trade card for Mayo's Eglantine & Ivy tobacco.
Features colorful illustration of boy and girl on a country pathway. They are dressed as a colonial couple, her in a dress of red and yellow with striped leggings, he in brown velvet with a large lacy collar and a plumed hat. His hair is long. She wears what looks like a bandage around her head. Odd.
Mayo's Eglantine was a product of American Tobacco. The P. H. Mayo & Bros. company was located in Richmond, Virginia, where one of the town father's was a Mayo. Mayo introduced cigarette manufacturing to the city in 1874. I think Mayo sold to American Tobacco in 1891.
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