John Player Cigarette Cards (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Not stuck in - neatly inserted & removable. Good - very good.

50 mounted cigarette cards printed in color, with text. Oblong 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers. Very slight use to wrappers; contents fine. A second series of portraits issued with Player's "Medium" Navy Cut cigarettes.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Signed 'Oliver Lodge' in pencil at foot of 10 x 11 cm piece of paper, in which slits have been made for loose insertion of the cigarette card. The signature is clear and clean, but the paperr and card are spotted, and the paper is worn with border of discoloration made by tape. The caricature is in colour, by Alick P. F. Ritchie. No 38 out of 50 in a series titled 'Straight Line Caricatures', issued by John Player & Sons. Scan on application.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On 10 x 12 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. He signs and dates floridly at the foot of the page: 'Austen Chamberlain / 4. 3. 27'. Slits have been cut into the leaf to loosely insert the cigarette card. In poor condition, worn and spotted, with border of discoloration (extending over the end of the signature) caused by tape. The caricature, in colour, by Alick P. F. Ritchie is No. 11 of 50 in the 'Straight Line Caricatures' series of cigarette cards by John Player & Sons.…

Board Colour Printed. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cased Map. No date, but aircraft cards are interwar years. 500 colour cards from John Player completes space in book. Content from national flags to film stars, from tennis to motor cars, from trains to famous people. All cards clean & bright. 8 cards to a page. Also included loose Daily Telegraph review by Ray Honeyford Sept 1992 Size: 4to. Cigarette Cards.…