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Franklyn Cards : Selling a better grade of card for 25 years.

Gallaher produced some of the best of the Bird cards. Usually I consider this issuer to produce cards of clean modern lines but this and other bird issues really do determine to produce the detail of matter. The reverse of the card has all the information you can expect from a cigarette card. Times of appearance, nesting habits and general information regarding the bird.
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Gallaher, British Birds by George Rankin (100 cards) [1923]





Ogdens were another major producer of Bird related cards with many a variation on the theme. I could put a page together just on the issues of this one manufacturer but choose not to in this instance for no other reason than there is so much more to show you.
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Ogdens, Foreign Birds (50 cards) [1924]

An early set of cardsand the only time L&B actually issued a birds set as far as I know. The bird is centre stage with the background very much stylised and the birds egg up in the corner. This set has pretty much got it all, perhaps L&B thought they had said as much as they need to on the topic.
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Lambert & Butler, [Representing] Birds & Eggs (50 cards) [1906]


The world was at war when this set came out so perhaps bird song was no bad thing to be reminded of. The card is of a goldfinch and the reverse informs us that caging the birds have greatly reduced its nubers as have the scientific farming methods which are depriving it of the natural feeding grounds. It also explains legislation is in place to help this bird out. 1915 remember, so what is new in the world?
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Wills, British Birds (50 cards) [1915]

This set is at least on a par with the 'classic' Woodland Trees series and given the subject matter I think it is better (a quarter of the price too so this has everything). This is a set I would not want to be without and of all the birds sets.
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Gallaher, Birds Nests& Eggs (100 cards) [1919]

Good old Players introducing something of a variation into the field and in grand style too. made all the better as this is not the role I usually associate with Players. Colour great, artwork great, information on reverse great. Price: Undervalued. Great all rounder this one.
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Players, Curious Beaks (50 cards) [1929]

A more traditional bird set from Players this one and no worse for that. Some of the birds get lost in the vegetation on this set but certainly not as bas as the Birds & their young set which really suffers from a rather over fussy background (I'm off to wash my mouth out with soap and water now, saying bad things about a set of cards). Still this set just about gets the balance between bird and habitat right.
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Players, Game Birds & Wild Fowl (50 cards)

Something of a novelty set this one. The sketched drawing was designed so people could colour it in like the one of the left. Just think how many cards disappeared under such artistic endeavours. The card itself is of the thinest grade which makes the destruction rate even higher over the years. Fortunately quite a late set date wise and many were saved by determined collectors. Nowadays the plastic folders I give the cards away in negate all the problems with thickness of card so they are safe and sound from here on in.
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Godfrey Phillips, Bird Painting (50 cards)

Godfrey Phillips doing something different in terms of format. Fine apart from the egg looks rather like it is sitting in one of those collecting drawers you sometimes find which remind you just how many eggs were collected rather than hateched. Not my particular cup of tea but I am not going to revise history with the moral code of the present, because in forty years time someone might come along and revise all my views with no reference to the time in which they were voiced. The card shown is a Skylark and the reverse of the card tell us that during the heavy bombardments in Flanders during the Great War this birds song came as a relief to the soldiers fighting over there. So there you go the Skylark made a contribution to the war effort.
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Godfrey Phillips, British Birds & Their Eggs (50 cards) [1936]

Early cards from Ogdens. Both series one and series 2 are difficult to get hold of nowadays, and this is not sales code, they are. People that own them don't want to part with them it seems. Cannot blame them.
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Ogdens, British Birds (50 in series) [1905]

Gallaher went all exotic on this one Zoo Tropical Birds. Seems the artist trotted off to the local zoo and did some illustrations. Plenty of colour but rather more impressionistic than other sets. I have been slightly unfair to the series by scanning one of the lesser cards but I'm not here just to sell you cards. If I was it'd be a lot smaller site and a lot less interesting.
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Gallaher Zoo Trpical Birds [1928] 50 cards

Again Players are keen on the background detail with this set. Popular series
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Players, Wild Birds [1934](50 cards)

Gallaher produced this rather wonderful set of cards. Entitled British Birds there are some surprises in the set for those that consider a couple of Sartlings some Sparrows and seagulls at landfill sites the sum total of our bird life.
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Gallaher British Birds [1937] 48 cards

1939 and war is upon Europe. Obviously the guys at Ogdens were sick to the back teeth with conflict and the manu. that gave us endless military titles at the turn of the century. The last set they were to produce was British Birds and their Eggs [1939] 50 cards. Way to go lads.
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Ogdens, British Birds & Their Eggs (50 cards) [1939]

A classic of its type. Difficult to locate in higher grades because of the white board often getting discoloured. Still don't let anyone tell you it cannot be done. Really great illustrations, deserves its reputation this set.
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Players, Poultry [1931] 50 cards

There was obviously a fan of poultry in the Ogdens camp as they attacked the subject from almost every angle you can imagine. This is actually from the first series and covers a lot of ground as you can imagine from the title.
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Ogdens, Poultry Rearing and Management First series [1922] Second series [1923]

From a dealer point of view it is difficult to thank Ogdens for the innovation of the 'push out' cards. The cards were designed to have the centre pushed out and then it stands on the card like a base. What a nightmare. Don't let anyone tell you can cannot find these in good condition and you are going to have to settle for folded and beaten cards. Truly determined collectors require cards that were never pushed out, they are available too.
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Ogdens, British Birds (cut outs) 50 cards [1923]

Wills decided Life in the Treetops gave them more scope. It is a great set and often over looked because of its price (its pretty cheap). It is a myth you have to spend a fortune to get a really good set of cards. If you like though wait a few more years I'm sure you'll have to pay more for them then..
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Wills Life in the Treetops [1925] 50 cards

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