1870s Jackson's Best Chewing Tabacco Trade Card w/ Rhino and Hippo

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1870s Jackson's Best Chewing Tabacco Trade Card w/ Rhino and Hippo
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This Victorian advertising trade card is for the "Jackson's Best Chewing Tobacco". Other sites on the internet date this card to the 1870s. Fun image on the front of a Hippo and Rhino stopping an explorer and says "Say, Stanley old fellow, Give us a chew, Just a toothful." and the explorer seems to be handing over a box. The back has an ad for the tobacco and also says it won the "Highest Prize" at the Centennial Exposition which was in the 1870s. Card has some light wear, no tears, no folds, back has some slight stains on the edges that look like old tape marks, but they aren't, just weird stains that look like tape marks. Measures 3 1/2 x 5.
Card is in excellent condition, no tears, no folds, sharp corners, little or no age stain. Measures 3 1/2 x 5.
Brief History of Trade Cards  by  Ben Crane
Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful.
By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly-colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook.
Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm.
The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective.
Although trade card collecting began over 100 years ago, today's strong interest in trade cards began relatively recently. Trade cards that were bought for ten cents thirty years ago frequently bring ten dollars or more in today's market--and some have even sold for over a thousand dollars.