Pocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

Pocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trade cards from the "Miniature Novelties'" series (N120), issued in an unnumbered set in 1891 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. Although each card verso states that there are 25 cards in the series, there are 26 variations of known cards. The set was released in 1891 after W. Duke Sons & Co. merged with The American Tobacco Company.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPocket Watch, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.