Don Neumann emailed these two photo with a message titled "Arm and Hammer":
"Hi Ric, picked up about 60 of these at an estate sale. Had never seen them before and was surprised to learn they had been available for 90 years, starting in the 1880’s. Was wondering if anyone from the club may know about or collected them.
Looks like they originally came in (on? the box and later you had to send in box tops to get the current set. I had never heard of or seen these and thought someone may have some history with them."
I wrote Don that I'd never seen these myself but that there might be some people in the club who knew about them. If you do, please contact me. Thanks! - Ric
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I've had a lot of those cards.ARM AND HAMMER issued them and I believe cigarette companies did similar cards. Louise Agazzie Fuertes did some. He is an artist used by Cornell lab in their gifting for donations.
Don, yes I am very familiar with those cards. I started collecting them after my sister sent me a few. They started in the late 19th century when color lithography became less expensive and product branding became a thing. The early cards used art by a guy named John James Audubon and finished in the 1970's with Roger Tory Peterson, so the artists alone tell the history of birds in America.
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