1936 Cigarette Card Book of German Colonies (G490)

Cigaretten-Bilderdienst / Cigarette Card Book 1936, Dresden.  A colourful cigarette card portrayal of people, culture and animals from the German colonies around the world, including New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelms Land), Samoa, the Solomons, and China in the Schantung (Shandong) area. Colour plate cigarette cards laid down on monochrome illustrations, with printed captions below each card. 270 colour illustrations cigarette cards, in text maps. Tan gilt embossed and decorated stiff paper wrappers, with color illustration of Mt. Kilimanjaro laid down at front wrapper, flanked by embossed figures of an African and a German soldier.