WW2 Air-Raids Gas Masks Bomb Shelters Fighter Planes Incendiary Bombs On Cigarette Cards By Churchman 1938

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As war clouds loomed ever closer this set was issued to provide civilians with helpful information on building a bomb shelter , protecting windows from blasts and dealing with incendiary bombs. A large part of the set is devoted to gas masks but, luckily, there were no gas attacks on Britain during WW2. Many of the cards provide reassurances on how the home front would be protected, featuring anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, balloon barrages, air defence control rooms and fighter planes.

WA & AC Churchman, Air-Raid Precautions, 1938 (48 cards)

Includes:Choosing your Refuge Room,Rendering Your Refuge Room Gas-Proof,Making a Door Gas-Proof,Window Protection,Window Protection Agains Blast,Types of Splinter-Proof Wall,Protecting Your Windows - A Sandbag Defence,Equipping your Refuge Room,Equipping Your, Refuge Room,A Garden Dug-Out,Incendiary Bomb and its Effect,Incendiary Bomb Cooling Down,Control Of Incendiary Bomb,Removal of Incendiary Bomb with Scoop and Hoe,Extinction of Incendiary Bomb,The Stirrup Hand Pump,Two-Men Portable Manual Fire-Pump in, Action,A Chain of Buckets,Light Trailer Fire-Pump,Medium Trailer Fire-Pump,Medium Trailer Fire-Pump in Action,Emergency Heavy Pump Unit,Hose-Laying Lorry,The Civilian Respirator,How to Adjust It,How To Remove It,The Civilian Duty Gas Mask,The Service Gas, Mask,A Heavy Anti-Gas Suit,Rubber Clothing,Air Raid Wardens and Civilian Volunteer Despatch-Rider,Volunteer Mobile Corps Owner Drivers,A First Aid Party,Supply Depot For Gas Masks,Mobile Gas Vans,Civilian Anti-Gas School,Testing For Gas Contamination,, Decontamination Workers in Training,Air Raid Precautions Badge,Representation of Air Defence Control Room,Pilots Running To Machines Interceptor Fighters Take Off,Gloster Gauntlet Interceptor Fighters,Representation of Baloon Barrage for Defence of London

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Grandma Was A Porn Star – 1930’s Glamorous Movie Stars (Vintage Erotica) Cigarette Cards By Rothmans Anna May Wong Ann Dvorak 1934

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Tobacco card issuers knew way back in the 1880s that sex sells and that’s why pretty girls and actresses adorn many early tobacco cards. In the USA and England, these cards of the fairer sex stopped short of nudity but card issuers in South America and North Africa were more daring. The movie world started out as a novelty pastime for inventors and amateur enthusiasts in the late nineteenth century but snowballed into a huge global industry in the 1920s and 1930s.

The card set featured in this blog is about as close as you get to pornography for the masses in the 1930s. It includes several cards of the film star Anne Grey with what looks like a see-through top on, Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, Sidney Fox, whose life ended tragically with an overdose, Ann Dvorak, whose prolific movie career secured her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and many other movie stars in seductive poses.

Rothmans, Prominent Screen Favourites, 1934 (24 cards)

Includes:Judy Kelly,Claudia Dell,Ann Dvorak,Anne Grey,Joan Wyncham,Lucile Browne,Mirian Sherry,Dorothy Bouchier,Mary Duncan,Heather Angel,Anna May Wong,Anne Grey,Anne Grey,Edna Earle,Betty Stockfeld,Betty Stockfeld,Dorothy Boyd,Dorothy Bartlam,Dorothy Bartlam,, Vivienne Osborne,Jeanette Loff,Sidney Fox,Dorothy Bartlam,Dorothy Bartlam,

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Science Cigarette Cards (First Computer, Wright Brothers, Television, Cinema, Robbots)

Science Cigarette Cards

Cigarette cards were issued during one of the most exciting times in history, 1870s-1930s. These encyclopaedic cards captured the Precambrian explosion in 20th century inventions and discoveries that propelled us into our modern age.

I've included a small selection of science related cigarette card sets below. For those interested in the history of the computer, the card set "Modern Wonders", issued in 1938 by Churchman, includes cards on "The Super Calculating Machine" and the "Slot Machine Which Plays Bridge". I particularly like the predictions made in "The World of Tomorrow, issued in 1936 by Stephen Mitchell.

Name Of Set: Inventions And Discoveries S273

Manufacturer: Liebig Extract of Meat Co

Issue Year: 1890

Card Number: 6

Card Titles: -

Name Of Set: Electricity

Manufacturer: Liebig Extract of Meat Co

Issue Year: 1907

Card Number: 6

Card Titles: -

Name Of Set: Famous Inventions

Manufacturer: WD and HO Wills

Issue Year: 1915

Card Number: 50

Card Titles: Spectroscope, Edison and Phonography, Rock Drill, Syphon Barometer, Steam Navvy, Vacuum Brake, Arkwright and the Spinning Machine, Vacuum Flask, Marconi Transmitting Apparatus, Cugnot and the Traction Engine, Camera and Photography, Five Needle Telegraph Instrument, Floating Dock, Wilde and the Dynamo, Tita Crane, Safety Lamp, Stevens and the Screw Propeller, Microscope, Watt and the Steam Engine, Hobby - Horse, Bicycle, Cycling, Transporter Bridge, Early Reflecting Telescope, The Croton Dam at New York, Pratt and the Typewriter, Howe and the Sewing Machine, Cash Register, Lifeboat, Auto Piano, X-Ray Apparatus, Grand Piano, Modern Lighthouse Lantern, Edison and Kinetoscope, Steam Hammer, Santos Dumont and the Aeroplane Motor, Steel Frame Buildings, Modern Submarine, Parachute Descent by Garnerin, Levassor and the Automoblie or Motor Car, Electric Light, Renard and Kreb and the Dirigible, Diving Bell, Sun Motor, Electric Tram, Acminster Carpet Loom, Steam Turbine, Oil Engine, Electric Locomotive, Jacquard Loom, Incandescent Light, and Hydraulic Press.

Name Of Set: Engineering Wonders

Manufacturer: WD and HO Wills

Issue Year: 1927

Card Number: 50

Card Titles: Steel Caisson, Lethbridge Viaduct, Rolling Lift Bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Zambesi Bridge, Bucket Dredger, Giant Excavator, Hydraulic Lift Lock, Lock Panama Canal, Electric Shovel, Slab Charger for Reheating Furnace, Conveyor Bridge, Blast Furnace, Electric Furnace, Electric Lifting Magnet, Hydraulic Press, Electric Unloader, Electric Coal cutter and Loader, Electric Dumper, Gold Dredger, Escalator, Building a Skyscraper, Strong Room Door, Reflecting Telescope, Generating Station, Electric Motor Driving a Reversing Mill, Automatic Substation, Steam Turbo Generator, Electric Winding Engine, Modern Aqueduct, Great Dam, Block Setting Crane, Croton Dam and Spillway, Vaal River Barrage, Great Dam Lake Vyrnwy, Aircraft Carrier, Revolving Floating Crane, Floating Dock, Framing a Liner, Train Ferry, Wetterhorn Aerial Railway, Wrecking Crane, Electric Locomotive, Hedjaz Railway, Ice Locomotive, Road Making Motor, Rotary Snow Plough, Track Layer, Tunnel Construction by Means of a Shield, and Lidgerwood Unloader.

Name Of Set: Clocks - Old and New

Manufacturer: John Player and Sons

Issue Year: 1928

Card Number: 20

Card Titles: An Egyptian Water Clock about 1400BC, A Water-Clock of Clepsydra about 300 BC, Hour-Glasses, The Glastonbury Clock Wells Cathedral, An Astronomical Clock Wimborne Minster, Early 17th Century Clock St Mark's Square in Venice, A Ship Clock about 1581, A Small Astronomical Clock 1587, A Clock by Isaac Hebrecht 1589, A Clock by Bartholomew Newsam 1590, A Table Clock With Alarium, A 16th Century Clock-Watch, A Globe or Falling-Ball Clock about 1650, A Lantern Clock by Thomas Tompton, A Bracket Clock by Thomas Tompion 1690, An Act of Parliament Clock 1797, A Long Case Clock by Thomas Tompion 1709, A Table Alarum Clock With Strike-A-Light late 17th Century, The Westminster Clock 1858, and Modern Clocks Greenwich Observatory.

Name Of Set: Scientific Inventions and Discoveries (Large) (Coloured)

Manufacturer: R and J Hill

Issue Year: 1929

Card Number: 35

Card Titles: Professor Charles and the Hydrogen Gas Baloon, Robert Stephenson and the Britannia Tubular Bridge, Hans Lippershey and the Telescope, Professor Niels Finsen and the Finsen Lamp, Mr Louis Brennan and Mono Rail, Sir WG Armstrong and the 110 Ton Gun, Sir W. Siemens and the Finishing Armature, Guglielmo Marconi and Wireless Telegraphy, George Stephenson and the First Locomotive Engine, Sir Hiram Maxim and the Maxim Gun, Evang Torricelli and the Barometer, Lord Kelvin and the Patent Standard Compass, Thomas A Edison and the Phonograph / Gramaphone, Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Conductor, Sir H. Davy and the Safety Lamp, Mc Cormick and the Reaping Machin, M. Santos Dumont and the Air Ship, SFB Morse and the Electric Telegraph, Sir James Dewar and Liquid Air, M. Curie and Extracting Radium From Pitchblend, Mergenthaler and the Linotype Machine, Orville and Wilbur Wright and the Aeroplane, A. Volta and the Pile Battery, JL Baird and Television, AG Bell and the Telephone, Professor Rontgen and X-Ray Photography, LJM Daguerre and the Photographic Camera, Galileo and the Pendulum, Ja\mes Nasmyth and the Steam Hammer, G Constantinesco and the Aeroplane Gun, Elias Howe and the Sewing Machine, Caxton and the Printing Press, Sir Charles Parsons and the Steam Turbine, JH Greathead and the Tunneling Shield, and F Handley Page and the Slotted Aeroplane Wing

Name Of Set: Interesting Experiments

Manufacturer: WA & AC Churchman

Issue Year: 1929

Card Number: 25

Card Titles: Atmospheric Pressure part 1, Atmospheric Pressure part 2, The Torricellian Vacuum, The Ventilation of Coal Mines, The Construction of the Atom illustrated, Capillary Action, Making Coal Gas,Combusion part1, Combustion part2, The Parts of a Candle - Flame, The Interior of a Flame, The Ignition Point of Inflammable Gas, Crystallization, Diffusion of Gases, Heat Causes Liquids and Solids to Expand, Making Hydrogen, Unreflected Light is Invisible, Finding the Relative Illuminating Power of Lights, Liquid Air and Alcohol, Liquid Air and Ice, The Lines of Force in a Magnetic Field, Sound Waves, The Composition of Water, The Decomposition of Water, and Water a Bad Conductor of Heat.

Name Of Set: Modern Wonders

Manufacturer: WA & AC Churchman

Issue Year: 1938

Card Number: 48

Card Titles: The Short Mayo-Composite Aircraft, The Flying Triangle, The Westland-Hill Pterodactyl, Sealed Flying Suit, Detecting Unseen Enemies, The Queen Mary at Southampton, Gyro-Stabiliser, Bathysphere, All-Electric Signal Box, Desert Motor Service, Dynasphere, Modern Fire-Escape, Gigantic Steam Roller, The Gyrotiller, Giant Electric Shovel, The World's Longest Bridge,America's Largest Concrete Arch, The Boulder Dam, Monster Canal Lift, A 500 000 Volt Flash, Ignitron Tube, High-Power Grid-Glow Tube, Million-Volt X-Ray Tube, High Voltage Test House, Gigantic Electric Lamp, Cleaning Air By Electricity, Magnet That Lifts 46 Tons, Huge Electro-Magnet, The Stroboglow, Welding at 7000 D Fahrenheit, Benzol Recovery Plant, Huge Triple Expansion Pumping Engine, 6000 Ton Forging Press, Huge Vertical Boring Mill, Pair of Giant Motors, 200-inch Mirror, Greenwich's Largest Telescope, Giant Plate-Glass Polishing Machine, 30 Ton Treasury Door, Modern Cinema Operating Box, Automatic Telephone Exchange, The Speaking Clock, Television Studio, Micro-Ray Wireless Station, Super Calculating Machine, First Computer, Weighing the Earth, Eye-Prints, and Slot Machine Which Plays Bridge.

Name Of Set: The World of Tomorrow

Manufacturer: Stephen Mitchell

Issue Year: 1936

Card Number: 50

Card Titles: Solar Motor, Tidal Power Generator, Sea Power Generator, Rotor Power Plant, Wind Turbine Station, Atomic Disintegrator, Coal-Oil Distilling Plant, Mechanical Excavator, Armoured Suits For Engineers, Office of the Future, Stream-Lined Train, Railplane, Tunnel Travel, Road Liner, Streamlined Speed Ship, Fog Eliminator, One-Man Submarine, Super Aeroplane, Mid-Ocean Airport, Composite Aircraft, High Level Airport, Television, New York in the Future, London of the Future, Cross-Shaped Skyscrapers, Church of the Future, Revolving House, House Built of Glass, House Builder, Gyrotiler, Frost Eliminator, North Sea Reclamation, Reclamation of the Sea-Floor, Gibraltar Dam, Gyro_Motor Race, Birdman, Robot or Mechanical Man, Thought-Detecting Machine, Invasion from the Air, Anti-Gas Armour, Anti-Gas Ray, Rocket Post, Cathode Rocket Spaceship, Launching a Space-Ship, Space Gun, Inside a Space-Ship, Space Suits, New Style Observatory, Giant Telescope, and Weather Control.

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1920's Association Footballers Trading Cards Hughie Gallacher Joe Spence Manchester United Arsenal By Thomson Rover Comics 1927

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I believe that association football is one of the most underrated card collecting subjects, although there has recently been a flurry of activity in the auction houses. Despite the fact that soccer is considered by many to be the most popular sport in the world, the values of its early football cards lag way behind baseball, which is mainly restricted to North America. Thomson produced card sets that would appeal to the readers of its comics, and association football was a strong favourite. The set of Thomson cards featured in this blog, “This Year’s Top-Form Footballers”, includes talented players such as Hughie Gallacher, Joe Spence, Manchester United’s prolific goal scorer, and many others who performed particularly well in 1927 (see below for a full list of players and the football clubs they played for in that particular year).

DC Thomson, This Year's Top-Form Footballers, 1924 (24 cards)

Includes:John Blair - Tottenham Hotspur,Hugh Gallacher - Newcastle United,G Briggs - Birmingham,Joe Spence - Manchester United,A Jackson - Huddersfield Town,J Ruffell - West Ham United,James Crawford - Queen's Park Rangers,GH Green - Sheffield United,T Glidden -, West Bromwich Albion,GA McLachlan - Cardiff City,JD Gibson - Partick Thistle,WR Dean - Everton,A McInroy - Sunderland,T Bradshaw - Bury,Hugh Adcock - Leicester City,T Jennings - Leeds United,J Lambert - Arsenal,George Sommerville - Burnley,Walter Harris, - Aston Villa,W Cook - Dundee,G Brown - Huddersfield Town,R Parker - Millwall,T Mitchell - Blackburn Rovers,A James - Preston North End

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1930’s Lancashire Celebrities Dixie Dean Everton FC George Formby Gracie Fields Eric Brook Manchester City Peter Kane Cigarette Cards By Ardath 1937

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Lancastrian Celebrities

I have a soft spot for this particular card set because I was born in the British county of Lancashire. As with many photographic Ardath cards, this collection is mainly devoted to football stars from the late 1930s, including the prolific goal scorer Dixie Dean, the pride of Everton FC, and Eric Brook, an all time record goal scorer for Manchester City FC. It also includes many of their equally talented fellow players and legends from Liverpool FC (see full list below).

Despite the strong bias towards association football, this set does include two of the most well known Lancastrian entertainers from the era, Gracie Fields and the ultimate banjo playing comedian, George Formby. Boxing is represented by one of the greatest flyweight boxers of all time, Peter Kane.

Ardath, Lancashire Personalities, 1937 (22 cards)

Includes:Samuel Barkas - Manchester City, Ernest Blenkinsop - Liverpool Football Club, Thomas Bradshaw - Liverpool FC, Eric Brook - Manchester City FC, J Cunliffe - Everton FC, W Dixie Dean - Everton F.C., Lord Derby, Reginald Dixon, Robert Donnelly - Manchester, City FC, Gracie Fields, Foden Motor Works Band, George Formby, Charles Gee - Everton Fc, Albert Geldard - Everton FC, Fred Howe - Liverpool FC, Peter Kane, Barry Nieuwenhuys - Liverpool Fc, Arthur Jack Riley - Liverpool Fc, Ted Sagar - Everton F.C.,, J Sullivan - Wigan, Frank Swift - Manchester City FC, Samual Tilson- Manchester City FC,

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1914 Garden Insects and Pests Cigarette Cards by Wills Garden Spider, Ladybirds, Ladybugs, Beetles, Moths

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Miniature Monsters From The Underworld - Garden Insects and Pests

The garden seemed a welcome retreat to the colossal carnage and devastation caused by WW1. But lying in wait beneath the foliage remained an enemy even more formidable than before, an opponent that could survive an all out nuclear attack and would probably outlive us all - the garden pest.

Very few cigarette card sets were issued purely on entomology, but this is one of those rare insect gems. As well as highlighting the gardeners’ foes, it pays tribute to their underrated friends – the ladybird (or ladybug) and the garden spider. It goes on to describe a whole host of destructive miniature monsters from the underworld. I’ve done my best in listing the titles of all these ancient collectors’ cards below.

WD and HO Wills, Garden Life , 1914 (50 cards)

Mealy Bug,Click - Beetle, Wire Worm,Garden Snail,Red Spider,Lace-wing Fly,Devil's Coach - Horse Beetle,Large White Butterfly,Cuckoo Spit Insect,Celery Fly,.Cockchafa,Leaf-cutting Bee,Magpie Currant Moth,Aphides,Green Fly,Ichneumon Fly,Hover Fly,, Lady-birds,Ladybirds,Plum Fruit Saw - Fly,Pear Midge,pea Moth,Vine Louse,Garden Spider,Coding Moth,Small Ermine Moth,Earwigs,Apple Sucker,Centipedes,Snail - Slug,Millepedes,Crane - Fly,Raspberry Beetle,Rose Chafer,Apple Saw - Fly,Pear and Cherry Saw -, Fly,Cherry Aphis,Cabbage Moth,Lackey Moth,Winter Moths,Plum Fruit Moth,Ants ,Mussel Scale Insect,Wasp and nest,Woodlice,Woolly Aphis,Weevils,Slugs,Thrips,Currant Gall Mite,Mottled Umber Moth,Vapourer Moths,Tiger Beetle

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Rare Famous Silent Movie Stars by Ruby Magazine Trade Cards in 1923 Mary Pickford Lillian Gish Pauline Frederick

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In the early days of the movie industry the actors and actresses who appeared in films were not publicized as they are now. The studios feared that if they made them famous in their own right they may become too powerful and demand bigger salaries. In a similar vein, the early trading card and cigarette card issuers did not credit the visual artists who helped produce the illustrations for the cards.

Florence Lawrence became very popular as the leading lady in Biograph studio movies, despite the fact that her name was never revealed. To the audience she was simply known as “The Biograph Girl”. Fans began writing in to the studio asking for the name of the mysterious girl. In a move to lure her away from Biograph, Carl Laemmle promised to make her the first performer to be identified by name on screen and in film advertising, and so the first true movie star was born in 1910. Despite having appeared in more than 270 films and laying the foundations for future film stars, she was laid in an unmarked grave and her movie accomplishments were largely forgotten.

Miss Lawrence’s successor as the “Biograph Girl” was Mary Pickford, who quickly became a global phenomenon. This set of cards features Pickford and many of her contemporaries.

Ruby (Periodical), Famous Film Stars , 1923 (6 cards)

Includes:Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Pauline Frederick, Anita Stewart

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