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Ross Verlag also put out smaller cards known as tobacco or cigarette cards. These were sold in packs or cartons of cigarettes in Germany (and a few other countries). Most had numbers on the back and were meant to be pasted into books, which one would usually mail away for. The cards came in various sizes, but were much smaller than postcards. There seems to be an almost unlimited number of these cards. Some were duplicates of photos seen on postcards, but others were designed just for the tobacco cards, particularly the color ones. Similar photos would show up on different cards printed for different tobacco brands.  A variety of tobacco cards  The backs of various tobacco cards  An example of the same photo with two different cigarette companies on the backs.  These are some unusually shaped Shirley Temple cards |
