What are the characteristics of fake cigarettes?

The reason why cigarette paintings attracted many collectors in those days was not so much to win prizes, but rather that their colorful contents and exquisite pictures were favored by people. When collecting cigarette pictures, we should pay attention to some so-called "cigarette pictures", which are small pictures printed by some publishing houses and printing houses. In fact, they are all fakes. Anyone who has no cigarette factory, company or brand name, rough printing and small picture area is undoubtedly a fake. In addition, we should be careful to confuse the real with the fake, that is, copy the genuine cigarette pictures in color and make them into fakes of the same size as the real ones. This fake can be identified at a glance.

There is no uniform price for cigarette paintings sold in the collectible market, which is completely determined by buyers and sellers. At present, the general price of ordinary non-complete single-chip products after liberation is 2~3 yuan, and the price of complete single-chip products is 3~5 yuan; In 1930s and 1940s, the price of an incomplete single-chip microcomputer was 5~7 yuan, and the price of a complete single-chip microcomputer was generally between 15-50 yuan. For example, an early cigarette painting "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" costs 40 yuan; However, there were many complete sets of cigarette paintings in the early days, because it was difficult to collect and the price was relatively expensive. For example, the price of 12 sets of "Chinese Zodiac" cigarette paintings reached 300 yuan.

If there are dozens or hundreds of complete sets of early series cigarette pictures, the price can reach more than several thousand yuan. A few days ago, at an auction of public collections, the price of a set of incomplete cigarette paintings (the whole set should be 100, only 87 pieces) was as high as 1000 yuan. If this set of cigarettes is painted completely, the price will more than double. Others, such as The Outlaws of the Marsh, The Story of Three Kingdoms and A Dream of Red Mansions, are more expensive.