Antique 1900's Zira Cigarette Co Tobacco/Cigarette Silk- Osceola, Chief of Seminola
This is a single tobacco/cigarette silk depicting Osceola, Chief of Seminola. made in
Factory No 7 ,5th district NJ by the Zira Cigarette Co.
Chief Osceola is stoic and colorful- with vibrant red, green, yellow and teal headdress and feathers
This silk is clean with no staining but the previous owner did paste it to cardboard stock paper
It measures 3 1/4" x 2 1/2"
Cigarette silks, or "tobacco silks," although the material is more likely to be satin is a type of tobacciana. They were inserted in packs of cigarettes or could be obtained by sending in coupons stuffed in the packs.
These became popular in the early 1900s, with trading cards distributed in cigarette packages being their predecessors.
The designs came in sets and were meant to appeal to women. The silks came in different sizes and were “published” in sets, or a series intended to be sewn together to make quilts or larger pictures.
Popular subjects included actors and actresses, animals, baseball players, college mascots and seals, flags, generals, Indians, kings and queens, U.S. presidents, and Hamilton King girls.
Some look like little rugs. Most of these small fabric pieces were sewn together to fashion lager textiles such as quilts and table covers. Some cigarette packages even included instructions for industrious homemakers to follow when piecing these together although few women actually smoked in those days, at least not openly.
In comparison to cigar ribbon textiles, cigarette silks are harder to come by
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