A collection of tobacco-related packaging and retail ephemera, featuring an assortment of vintage and modern cigarette packets alongside a large red and blue cardboard retail display outer box for Benson and Hedges Superkings. The collection includes several mid-20th-century vintage paper and card packets such as Golden Fern Cigarettes manufactured by Redford and Co. of Clerkenwell, London; Dark Drive Cigarettes manufactured by Gallaher Limited of London and Belfast; and Ogden’s Robin Cigarettes featuring a central robin illustration. Other vintage examples include Army Club Sandhurst Size by Cavanders Limited; Westminster Virginia Cigarettes Cork Tipped; and two variants of Player’s Navy Cut Medium featuring the sailor logo. Later 20th-century and modern examples include a Sovereign Lights packet by Benson and Hedges with a printed price mark of 2.89 pounds and an early health warning; Mayfair King Size; JPS Players Crushball; John Player King Size Extra Mild; L&M Filter; and Park Drive. The packets are constructed from printed card and paper, with some modern examples retaining their original cellophane wrappers. The lot illustrates the transition of British tobacco branding and the introduction of statutory health warnings.
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