Lot # 72: 1888 Old Judge Baseball Cabinet Card Redemption Point-of-Sale Advertisement

Top off your tobacco collection with this 1888 Old Judge baseball cabinet card redemption advertisement. This point-of-sale promoter details the redemption process to obtain a period star player in cabinet photograph format. At the time of issue, the illustrations would have been humorous. The bottom panel of this two-section advertisement depicts a boy on the wrong end of a butt whooping from his dad, who is seen about to deliver a lick with a switch. A caption reads "“Take that! And the next time I send you to the store you’ll bring me the Old Judge and no other kind”. The die cut upper panel depicts the lad rubbing his sore behind, as he fulfills his task of bring home the Old Judge brand for his father, while confronting the store clerk with the order "Say B-B-Boss gimme Old Judge an no foolin this time”. The colors and graphics of this antique enticement remain bold, though the two panels are hanging together by a thread, and a small tab is absent from the lower panel. The overall presentation rates as Gd.