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Outer cigar box label for "Pinafore" cigars, design in blue and beige, with "Pinafore" in banner at top, scene from H.M.S. Pinafore beneath with Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Tom Tucker in foreground.

Inner cigar box label for "Patience" cigars, design in full color, featuring two vignettes from Patience. On the left in an oval is the milkmaid Patience, her left elbow resting on her milk pail, in the upper right is the poets Bunthorne, surrounded…

Outer cigar box label for "Original Mikado" cigars, design in full color, with "Original Mikado" at top, the title character from the opera The Mikado front and center surrounded by Japanese artifacts.

Inner cigar box label for "Opera Kings" cigars, design in gold and sepia, featuring large sepia images of Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in the center. This is a salesman's sample with ordering details at the bottom.

Decorative card program in full color for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance performed by D'Oyly Carte's Children's Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre, London. Card is in four panels. On one side each panel has a drawing of…

Small card program for Children's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S Pinafore at the Boston Museum.

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Three characters, Sir Joseph Porter and two girls, captioned "Whose praise Great Britain always chants, and so do his cousins and his…

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Two characters, Little Buttercup and sailor, captioned "What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever!"

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Two characters, Dick Deadeye and Captain Corcoran, captioned "Kind Captain I've important information, sing hey the galland (sic)…

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on Gold Flake tobacco trade card. Three nautical characters foreground, captioned "Oh! I am the ruler of the Queen's navee, and ready for any emergencee."