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Wm S. Kimball
Comic Powder Novelties - N200
1880s - Set of xx
Money in Every Pocket
Contributor
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Bill Oliver
Rhett Yeakley
Joe Gonsowski

----- Information from The Metropolitan Museom of Art, N.Y. -----
Each card instructs the collector to place a burning cigarette
at the point of the gun on each card's image.
The burning paper then mirrors the bullet's trajectory

----- Information from Rhett Yeakley -----
...... roughly the size of a 19th Century insert when folded (as issued).
It came along with an ad sheet for books available from Kimball in exchange for
their Album Coupons (also indicating the issue time being that of their card series)

The card/novelty is on extremely thin (tissue paper thin) paper stock