Play your cigarette cards right
Aug 24, 2022
3 minutes
MAN without a hobby is an abnormal sort of creature,’ asserted Edward Wharton-Tigar, who amassed the largest collection of cigarette cards the world has ever known. Starting aged four in 1917, this keen cartophilist had acquired more than one million cards by 1985, when he bequeathed them to the British Museum, which said it would provide a special gallery for permanent exhibition, but sadly never did (currently, his cards cannot be viewed at
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