Complete set of  50 original 108 year old cards.   Manufactured  in 1916  by Wills.  Detailed descriptions about each subject on the back.  Size of each card approximately 2 5/8 X 1 3/8 inches (67 x 36 mm).  Set in very good condition, please see photographs.

 

#1  Asbestos - Quarry at Thetford, Canada

#2  China Clay - Open-cast Mine, St. Austell, Cornwall

#3  Coal - Mine Surveying

#4  Coal - An Electric Coal-cutter

#5  Coal - Miner Drilling for Blasting

#6  Coal - A Miner "Holing"

#7  Coal - An Electric Train

#8  Coal - Taking Coal to Pit Mouth

#9  Coal - The Bottom of the Shaft

#10 Coal - Sorting and Cleaning Coal

#11 Copper - Calcination of Copper Ore, Rio Tinto, Spain

#12 Copper - Open-cast Mine, Rio Tinto, Spain

#13 Diamonds - Kimberley Mines , 1880

#14 Diamonds - Mine at Kimberley, South Africa

#15 Diamonds - Premier Diamond Mine, South Africa

#16 Diamonds - Washing and Concentrating Plant, South Africa

#17 Diamonds - Searching Tables, Kimberley Mines

#18 Gold - Mount Morgan Mine , Queensland

#19 Gold - Descending a Mine, South Africa

#20 Gold - compressed Air Drill, South Africa

#21 Gold - Stamp Battery, South Africa

#22 Gold - Cyanide Vats, South Africa

#23 Gold - Panning at Klondyke

#24 Gold - Dredging for Gold, North America 

#25 Iron - Open-cast Mine in the Urals, Russia

#26 Iron - Iron ORe Mine, Grangesberg, Sweden

#27 Iron - Steam Shovel at Work, USA

#28 Iron - Unloading Iron Ore, USA

#29 Marble - Cutting Marble in a Belgian Quarry 

#30 Marble - Channeling Machine at Work

#31 Marble - Lowering Large Blocks, Carrara, Italy

#32 Mica - Mine in Bengal, India

#33 Oil - Oil Field at Baku, Russia

#34 Oil - An Oil Field in the Sea, Southern California

#35 Oil - Oil Field on Fire, Texas

#36 Platinum - Raising Alluvial Gravel, Russia

#37 Platinum - Washing Alluvial Gravel, Russia

#38 Plumbago - Mine at Kurnegalle, Ceylon

#39 Radium - Mining Pichblende, Cornwall

#40 Rubies - Mine at Mogok, Burma

#41 Rubies - Sorters at Work, Burma

#42 Salt - Mining Rock Salt, Northwich, Cheshire

#43 Salt - Mine at Northwich, Cheshire

#44 Salt - Mine at Wieliczka, Galicia

#45 Sapphires - Digging and Washing Sapphires, Queensland

#46 Silver - Broken Hill Mines , NSW 

#47 Silver - Mechanical Feed, Broken Hill NSW

#48 Tin - Mine at Camborne, Cornwall

#49 Tin - Open-cast Mnie, Perak

#50 Turquoises - Mines near Nishapur, Persia