JOHN BASKERVILLE

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With a hint of bathos, Baskerville made what seems an unlikely subject for a cigarette card, one of the Dandies series produced by Player’s. How accurate a description this is one can only wonder, but he really did have a gilded coach decorated with examples of his japanned work, the business that made his fortune.