Editing Cigarette card (section)

==Legacy==
The largest cigarette card collection on record is that of [[Edward Wharton-Tigar]]. His collection, [[bequeathed]] to the [[British Museum]] following his death in 1995, is recognised by the ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' as the largest collection of its kind. His [[autobiography]], ''Burning Bright'', details both his obsession with collecting cigarette cards, as well as his business life, which included becoming President of Selection Trust &ndash; at the time, one of the largest mining companies in the world &ndash; as well as his lifelong passion for cricket, which culminated in his presidency of Kent Cricket Club. When asked what others thought of his collecting he said: "If to collect cigarette cards is a sign of eccentricity, how then will posterity judge one who amassed the biggest collection in the world? Frankly, I care not."<ref>Wharton-Tigar, E. (1987) ''Burning Bright: The Autobiography of Edward Wharton-Tigar'', London: Metal Bulletin Books, p.254</ref>

He was the president of the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain until his death in 1995.

===World record price===
The most valuable cigarette card in the world features [[Honus Wagner]], one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century. The [[T206 Honus Wagner]] has repeatedly set records at auction, most recently in 2016 when it sold for $3,120,000.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cracknell |first1=Ryan |title=World Record $3.12 Million for T206 Honus Wagner Baseball Card |url=https://www.beckett.com/news/world-record-price-for-t206-honus-wagner-baseball-card-3-million-and-counting/ |website=Beckett |access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> Wagner was a dedicated non-smoker and objected when America's biggest tobacco corporation planned to picture him on a cigarette card without his permission.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davis |first=Ralph S. |title=Wagner A Wonder: One Player In Game Who Is Not Money Mad |url=http://www.explorepahistory.com/~expa/cms/pbfiles/Project1/Scheme40/ExplorePAHistory-a0b9s7-a_514.pdf |work=The Sporting News |date=1912-10-21 |access-date=2007-10-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009110746/http://www.explorepahistory.com/~expa/cms/pbfiles/Project1/Scheme40/ExplorePAHistory-a0b9s7-a_514.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-09 }}</ref> Threats of legal action prevented its release, but a few slipped out, and it was one of these that stunned the collecting world when it was auctioned.