Richard Winterton Auctioneers
Lot 450
A LARGE COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS IN ELEVEN ALBUMS AND AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF VINTAGE POSTCARDS IN NINE ALBUMS, the cigarette cards are very nearly all complete sets and most are in very good - excellent condition, subject highlights include Players 'Arms and Armour', Wills 'Naval Dress and Badges' and 'Allied Army Leaders', Players 'Characters from Fiction' and 'Picturesque London', Ogden's 'AFC Nicknames' and 'Owners Racing Colours and Jockeys', Churchman 'Famous Cricket Colours', Wills 'Cricketers 1928', Ogdens 'Boy Scouts' and Leaders of men, Stephen Mitchell 'The World of Tomorrow', and also Lambert & Butler 'Motor Index Marks'. The Vintage Postcard Collection comprises of a large number of WW1, early 20th century examples of the genre by some of its most prominent designers, artists and publishers including Bystander Bamforth, Donald McGill, G.E.Shepherd, E.P.Kinsella, F.Gilson, Fred Spurgin, Viv Mansell, Birn Bros. and Dobson and Molle amongst others. Subjects vary from sentimental to comic, patriotic propoganda, songs and slogans, topographical and individual greeting cards. Also in the collection are albums devoted to Film Stars, generally facsimilie signed portraits from stars of the 1930s-1950s and domestic Sporting Stars including a collection of Topical Times Footballers from the 1930s, there are also a small number of other Historical features in the collection. There are over 4850 cigarette cards in this collection and over 940 postcards. (situated on table)
