I've Got a Pair of Queens

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Text on Button I'VE GOT A PAIR OF QUEENS
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Illustration of a man and two women side by side on a yellow background with blue text around the outer edge.

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FACTORY No. 30, 2ND DISTRICT NEW YORK

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American cartoonist Rube Goldberg created the "I've got a pair of queens" image, featuring Augustus Mutt from cartoonist Budd Fisher's comic Mutt and Jeff. The image was used as an insert card for Sweet Caporal Little Cigars, Derby Little Cigars, Sweet Caporal Tobacco Wrapper, and Sovereign Little Cigars produced by the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company. 

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2018). I've got a pair of queens, from the "Mutt and Jeff" series (T88), issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company. Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/785194.

Catalog ID HU0168