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Non-Sport Trading Cards
Trade cards are the ancestors of trading cards. Some of the earliest prizes found in retail products were cigarette cards — trade cards advertising the product (not to be confused with trading cards) that were inserted into paper packs of cigarettes as stiffeners to protect the contents. Allen and Ginter in the U.S. in 1886, and British company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1888, were the first tobacco companies to print advertisements. A couple years later, lithograph pictures on the cards with an encyclopedic variety of topics from nature to war to sports — subjects that appealed to men who smoked - began to surface as well. By 1900, there were thousands of tobacco card sets manufactured by 300 different companies. Children would stand outside of stores to ask customers who bought cigarettes for the promotional cards.
Among the modern trading card companies, Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., (now the Topps Company, Inc.) is the most famous, both in the sports card and non-sports card sectors. The company started inserting trading cards into bubble gum packs in 1950. Between 1956 and 1980 Topps dominated the sports and non-sports trading card categories. Notable card series have been issued for popular TV shows since the 1950s. Other notable series include Wacky Packages (1967, 1973–1977), Star Wars (beginning in 1977), and Garbage Pail Kids (beginning in 1985).
On this page we include antique, vintage, and modern non-sport trading cards. These may have been sold separately or included as premiums with gum, tobacco, or other goods.
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6 Topps 1965 Man from Uncle Cards Illya Kuryakin David McCallum
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was an American television spy series that was broadcast from September1964 to January 1968. It follows the exploits of two...
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20 1985 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Sticker Trading Cards 1st series
Garbage Pail Kids sticker Trading Cards were produced by the Topps Company between June 1985 and 1988. They were meant to parody the Cabbage Patch...
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Four Topps 1964 JFK Collector Cards President John F Kennedy
This lot of 4 John F. Kennedy collector cards was issued by Topps in 1964. They look in very good condition, but please grade by the pictures. Will...
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1940 Mutoscope Pin-up Girl Arcade Card Ankles Aweigh Gil Elvgren
This Mutoscope pinup arcade card is titled Ankles Aweigh and was first printed in 1940 as part of a Glamour Girl series. It was drawn by Gil Elvgren,...
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1941 Mutoscope PinUp Card Glamour Girls Series And the Wind Blew
This Mutoscope pinup arcade card is titled And The Wind Blew, and was part of the Glorified Glamour Girls series. It is in very good condition with...
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1941 Mutoscope Pin Up Card All Amer. Girls Soldier's Sweetheart
This Mutoscope pinup arcade card is titled Soldier's Sweetheart, and was part of the All American Girls. It is in very fine condition with just a...
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