Item: Paul Waner Lucky Strike Sign Baseball Player 1996 Postcard
Postcard Type: Oversized Postcard approximately 6.4 x 4.8"
Printed Title: 1927 Paul Waner Lucky Strike Sign
Subject: Baseball
Printed Description: This sign, which once hung in a trolley car, sold for $2,200 at Leland's November 1995 Doubleheader Auction. It features Paul 'Big Poison' Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
City or Town: New York
State or Region: New York
Country: United States
Postcard Era: Photochrome (1939-present)
Publisher or Printer: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication or Copyright date: 1996
Photographer:
Posted or unposted: posted
Postmark: New York New York 1996
Addressed to:
Handwritten Note: Bess, See the ball team from Pittsburg, PA. Mabelle B.
Postcard description: This postcard features an advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes with baseball player Paul Waner, voted N.L. Most Valuable Player, holding a baseball bat. The advertisement states, "Luckies give me pleasure without taxing my wind or irritating my throat," and, "It's toasted, no throat irritation, no cough." The back of the postcard provides information about the advertisement and states that this sign once hung in a trolley car and sold for $2,200 at a November 1995 auction. There is also a faint, illegible circular handwritten note.
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