With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949?]
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view With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.

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With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Paper toy promoting Smith's crisps, consisting of 3 pieces of card, which, when arranged correctly (the 2 horse pieces slide under the coeboy piece) form two cowboys riding two horses. Slogans on the back of these pieces read: "Smith's Potato Crisps nourish but do not fatten", "...ready for all meals" and "...are 100% food value".

Publication/Creation

[London] : Smith, [between 1940 and 1949?]

Physical description

1 paper toy : illustrations ; 10 cm

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    EPH/59/16

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