Postcard History

July 9, 2025

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  • I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    Bob Toal

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    Selling tobacco with a symbol (the tobacco-store indian statue) or a slogan (“I’d rather fight than switch”) has a long and storied history. But “I’d rather fight than switch” wasn’t original with the old Taryton brand. Here’s the story.

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Past Article

Editor’s Staff
July 17, 2022 3 Comments
There is nothing really curious about brothers in military service together, but when both brothers later became the King of England, it becomes a true Postcard History story. We are reminded of these facts by this patriotic postcard from the Globe Art Publications Company on Fleet Street (newspaper alley) in London.

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