1910 Hassan Cigarette Pinback W/ TAD Art I'm The Guy That put The Tan In Montana

Description

This button produced
by Hassan cigarettes, a very popular brand at the
beginning of the 1900’s. These were produced around 1910, and came free
with the cigarettes. The buttons are lithographed images with a celluloid
cover. Most have the paper insert from the particular brands of cigarette
inside the pin’s back. These buttons feature the art of the popular newspapers
cartoonists at the dawning of the America’s comics page. The button’s artist’s
are the icons who’s innovations lead the way to the comics we know today. This
lot features the artwork of TAD.
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (April 29, 1877 – May 2, 1929), also
known as Tad Dorgan, was an American cartoonist who signed his drawings as Tad.
He is known for his cartoon panel Indoor Sports and the many words and
expressions he added to the language. His slangy breeziness won immediate
circulation. It was he who first said ‘Twenty-three, Skidoo,’ and ‘Yes, we have
no bananas,’ ‘apple sauce’ and ‘solid ivory.’ Other expressions that are now
part of the American vernacular include ‘cake-eater,’ ‘drug-store cowboy,’
‘storm and strife,’ ‘Dumb Dora,’ ‘dumb-bell,’ ‘finale hopper,’ ‘Benny’ for hat
and ‘dogs’ for shoes.
These are for
collectors of Vintage Tobacciana and Cartoon ephemera and anyone who likes
vintage cool that’s well made. I will carefully package these pins so they
arrive in the condition shown.
Any questions? Need more photos? Feel
free to contact me through eBay. Thanks for looking and please check out my
store! Keeth.