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BSG Sarcoma Cigarette Carton & Death Tarot Card

BSG Sarcoma Cigarette Carton & Death Tarot Card

This is an empty production made carton with designs created by the art department. Measures 10¾″ × 2¾″ × 1¾″. Production-made tarot card. Front depicts a skeletal image wielding a sickle with the numeral “13” and the word “Death” underneath, the reverse has a tan double Colonial Phoenix symbol atop a multi-colored field. Measures 3⅖″ × 5⅖″ and has cut corners.

Provenance

Taken directly from the set of the NBC/Universal production, Battlestar Galactica, by Propworx staff.

This is an empty carton of “Sarcoma” brand cigarettes first seen in Season Two’s episode “Black Market'.” Cartons like this can be seen in Jack Fisk’s quarters on Pegasus and on Prometheus, the ship that functions as the Fleet’s black market hub. Double of a death tarot card. An old man on the Prometheus has a table on which he deals nothing but death cards. From the Second Season episode “Black Market.”

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