Only A Few Of Em Left

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Category
Advertising
Humorous
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Sub Categories
Cigarettes
Illustrations
Text on Button Only A Few Of 'Em Left
Image Description

Color Illustration of the back of a balding man's head with a few black hairs on the bottom and top of his head. Black text curves on the bottom portion of the button. The illustration and text lie on a white-blue dotted background.
Back Paper / Back Info

Quality Tokio Cigarette
Factory No 649
1st Dist. NEW YORK
THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO.
PATENTED
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
15/16 inch
Year / Decade Made
1912
1910s
The Manufacturer
Whitehead & Hoag Co.
Additional Information

Thomas E. Powers (1870-1939) was born on the Fourth of July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Powers was a nationally recognized cartoonist who worked at the New York Evening World, a William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) newspaper.  Powers's most famous comic strip was "Joy and Gloom."  The figure drawn for the button looks like it could be the back of Gloom's head.  Both Hearst and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) considered Power to be their favor cartoonist.  
Sources

T. E. Powers. (2012, June 14). lambiek.net. Retrieved October 20, 2014, from http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/powers_te.htm.
Catalog ID AD0397