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Churchill Books, Churchilliana & EphemeraJohn Player Tobacco Cards – Winston Churchill (partial set)
19 John Player & Sons tobacco cards including Winston Churchill
Issued by John Player & Sons in 1926 featuring colour portraits of notable people of the day including Winston Churchill featured on card number 14. (The full set comprises 50 cards)
Artist: Alexander “Alick” Penrose Forbes Ritchie
Douglas Hall in his book Churchilliana writes:
Cigarette cards were first introduced in 1878 in the USA, but did not arrive in Britain until 1901, when the American Tobacco Company acquired the Liverpool factory of Ogden’s. They were virtually killed off when paper rationing abruptly ended their use at the start of World War II…
A VG collection.
Hall p49
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