Cigarette albums

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What are cigarette albums? And what are there typical values?

Opinions on this album
thanks
john

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[ramon]

Cigarette albums were a very popular item in Europe in general and Germany in particular. There is a wonderful catalogue for these items by Köberich that lists, in organized fashion, the titles published.

Albums of all types were published by many publishing houses who did the work for not only cigarette companies but chocolate, margarine and other manufacturers.

Your album is a genuine item that appears, in the limited scans posted, to be in very good condition and was published in about 1937.

I'd suggest you might want to visit eBay.de (the eBay Germany site) and see the albums that are listed under Sammeln und Seltenes, Sammlerbildnes, Vor 1945, and finally Sammlerbilderalbum. There you'll see listed many of these albums listed for sale. There are several examples of this very album being offered on eBay.de as we speak. See lots 3900 6075 2744, 1903 1573 7285, 1803 7117 2972, 3702 1824 6766 as examples of your album up for auction at the present time. As I alluded to earlier, this is a common title.

Your album is probably valued for approximately 35 to 60usd. Condition and degree of completeness are of paramount importance.

Topics of albums ran the gamut from political/military related themes, to fairy tales, history, animals, aerial views of Germany, film stars, airplanes, Zeppelins, sports,and on and on.

There are other albums that are worth many hundreds of dollars depending upon the topic. The Ritterkreuzträger album fetches over 1000usd when it comes on the market. The Deutsche Uniformen, volume 5 can bring 400 to 600usd. There are other titles that will usually ballpark in the 80usd on up.


Hope this helps.

Ramon