Cigarette cards of ships and locomotives, ca. 1930-1939.

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Cigarette cards of ships and locomotives, ca. 1930-1939.

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The cards are mounted in a W.D., and H.O. Will's Cigarettes (Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain) card album, probably dating from the early 1930s. The album is completely filled with commemorative cards representing ships and other floating objects, i.e. barges, dredges, buoys (5 pages), and locomotives of Britain, the British Commonwealth, and other countries (5 pages). Each card (1.5 x 2.0 inches) was presumably offered with a package of Will's cigarettes as a market promotion. Each card is in brilliant color and contains on the back pertinent facts relating to the object shown on the front. The collection of maritime objects ranges from working ships, passenger ships, warships, to miscellaneous craft. The locomotives shown represent the major locomotives in use in their respective countries at the time. There are 50 railway cards and 50 maritime cards.

1 v. (100 cards)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6692544

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland

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The formation of Imperial came about as a result from the threat of competition from The American Tobacco Company (ATC). This threat was spearheaded by ATC’s head, James Buchanan Duke. Duke went to England in 1901 with the hope of buying up several independent tobacco companies there. In response to Duke’s takeover attempt, thirteen family-run businesses, led by Wills, Players and Lamber & Butler, met in December 1901. At this meeting they formed The Imperial Tobacco Company (Great Britain an...

Will's Cigarettes.

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Sexty, P. W. R.,

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P.W.R. Sexty lived at the Vicarage, West Lavington, North Devizes, in the south of England. From the description of Cigarette cards of ships and locomotives, ca. 1930-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369410 ...