Bidspirit auction | AMERICAN ADVERTISING TOKEN, or store

AMERICAN ADVERTISING TOKEN, or store card, issued by Samuel Hart & Co., Philadelphia. Copper in brown uncirculated condition. Both sides depict playing cards.          Initially apprenticed under his uncle Lewis I. Cohen, Samuel Hart, was a prolific and innovative manufacturer of playing cards from 1846-71. The cards were popular for their patriotic themes and were extensively used in the American West.