Description:  This group of over 400 tobacco cards (Good to Near Mint condition; Average of Vg-Ex) from 1905 to 1920 includes the following series and card numbers:

1905 Thomson & Porteous Cigarettes Arms of British Towns (50 total, 45 different). Card numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (x2), 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 (x2), 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 (x2), 46 (x2), 47 (x2), 48, 49, 50.

1910 Player’s Cigarettes Regimental Colours & Cap Badges Brown back tobacco cards (25 total, 23 different). Card numbers: 3, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19 (x2), 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49 (x2).

1912 Player’s Cigarettes Regimental Uniforms 1st Series (12 total, 11 different). Card numbers: 4 (blue back), 5 (blue back), 12 (brown back), 14 (brown back), 19 (brown back), 27 (brown back), 30 (blue back), 32 (blue back), 34 (blue back), 41 (brown back), 44 (blue back – x2)

1912 Wills’s Cigarettes Historical Events Tobacco cards (9 total, 9 different). Card numbers: 14, 21, 23, 33, 38, 39, 41, 44, 47.

1913 Wills’s Cigarettes First Aid Tobacco Cards (11 total, 10 different). Card numbers:  2, 3, 7, 15, 21 (x2), 24, 25, 36, 43, 50

1914 Player’s Cigarettes Regimental Uniforms 2nd Series (18 total, 18 different). Card numbers: 52, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 83, 85, 86, 93, 98 (all brown backs).

1914 Player’s Cigarettes Victoria Cross Tobacco Cards (11 total, 10 different). Card numbers: 3, 4 (x2), 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

1914 Wills’s Cigarettes Overseas Dominions – Canada & Australia (16 total, 15 different). Card numbers: 4, 7, 8, 10 (x2), 11, 12, 24 (x2), 25, 30, 33, 38, 40, 46, 49.

1914 Wills’s Cigarettes Physical Culture (14 total, 14 different). Card numbers: 1, 3, 5, 9, 17, 24, 32, 35, 37, 39, 42, 43, 45, 49.

1915 Lambert & Butler’s Cigarettes Aviation (26 total, 19 different). Card numbers: 1, 2 (x2), 3 (x2), 5, 8, 9, 10 (x2), 11 (x2), 12 (x2), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25 (x3).

1915-16 Gallaher Ltd. The Great War: Victoria Cross Heroes 7th Series (13 total, 10 different). Card numbers: 151, 152 (x2), 158, 160 (x2), 163 (x2), 164, 167, 168, 169, 175.

1916 Murray sons & Co. Cigarettes War Series “L” (18 total, 15 different). Card numbers: 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 117, 118 (x3), 119, 121, 122, 123, 124 (x2).

1916 Player’s Cigarettes Those Pearls of Heaven (13 total, 9 different). Card numbers: 1, 2 (x2), 6 (x2), 8, 9, 11, 20, 21 (x2), 24 (x2).

1916 Wills’s Cigarettes Military Motors Tobacco cards (49 total, 32 different). Card numbers: 1, 4, 5 (x2), 8, 9, 10 (x4), 11, 14 (x2), 15 (x2), 17, 19 (x3), 20, 23 (x2), 24 (x2), 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (x4), 40 (x2), 42 (x3), 44, 45.

1916 Wills’s Cigarettes Mining Tobacco cards (27 total, 21 different). Card numbers: 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 (x2), 18 (x2), 26, 31, 32, 33, 38, 39 (x2), 43, 44, 45, 46 (x2), 48, 49 (x3), 50.

1917 Wills’s Cigarettes Allied Army Leaders Tobacco Cards (55 total, 43 different). Card numbers: 1 (x2), 2 (x2), 3 (x2), 4 (x2), 5, 6, 7, 8 (x2), 9 (x2), 10, 12 (x2), 13 (x3), 14, 16, 18, 19 (x2), 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 (x2), 47, 48, 49 (x2), 50.

1920 F & J Smith’s Cigarettes Cinema Stars (14 total, 11 different). Card numbers: 2 Arbuckle, 3 Barrymore, 11 Mix, 12 Moore, 13 Neilan, 15 Peters (x2), 16 Pickford, 19 Sweet (x3), 22 Walker, 23 Ward, 24 White.

Plus 28 other miscellaneous tobacco cards from the same time period (e.g., Thomson & Porteous “VC Heroes,” Thomson & Porteous “European War Series,” Wills’s Cigarettes “Britain’s Part in the War,” Gallaher Ltd. “The Great War,” Player’s Cigarettes “Napoleon,” Wills’s Cigarettes “Russian Architecture,” etc.) 

Some series are somewhat nicer (EX or better) while some are lesser condition (G to EX).


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