cigarette card

noun

1. a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby

Example Sentences

Mr Nash said: "Once she was presented with a cigarette card that had been liberated from a German trench with her picture on it, a blood spattered image. "

From BBC

In one is a World War Two airplane, in the style of a cigarette card; in the other is a large pale-green luna moth.

From Literature

Flight By Elephant: The Untold Story of World War Two's Most Daring Jungle Rescueby Andrew Martin If the vivid description of Mackrell – "he always wore long shorts, and above his long socks, his large knees had the touching appearance of being on the wrong way round" – is reminiscent of a vintage cigarette card, then it's welcome.

From The Guardian

Haunting the fringes of eBay or jostling with one another at fairs for their particular Holy Grail — a pristine Nixon button, a racy cigarette card, an old railroad ticket — they are drawn together by their love of collecting and, often, membership in a group called the Ephemera Society of America.

From Washington Post

Trott's imperturbability and Test match technique is already recognised: he almost belongs to another age of cigarette card profiles.

From The Guardian