The purpose of these pages is quite simply to group together cigarette cards sets into themes to make it easier for those interested in specific subject matter to easily find the sets which could interest them. For information on availability and a quote please check the relevant boxes and fill in your email address in the form at the bottom of the page and I will send you the information. I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Gallaher Woodland Trees Series [1912] 100 cards Considered a classic of its type, 100 cards in total and certainly colourful. Personally I find the cards often rather overcrowded but it is exhaustive both in content and price it has to be said.
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Wills Flower Culture in Pots [1925] 50 cards This is more like it. Flower Culture in Pots. Dramatic black backdrops and the eponoymous pot taking a minor role in proceedings. Well done Wills and a deserved entrant on the classic sets page and given it is over 20 times cheaper than the Gallaher set above a real case of having you cake, eating it and hardly having to pay for it.Checklist
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Gallaher Wild Flowers [1939] 48 cards Wills does not get it all its own way and Gallaher produced this set of cards along with a set of Garden Flowers the previous year. An interesting foreground and background effect on this set and for those that like to collect the unusual I cannot think of another set of cigarette cards with this effect on it. Of course I am always ready to be proved wrong by people that know different. I actually prefer the wild flower idea to the cultivated one (probably because it suggests I do not need to go out into the garden and make it grow).
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Wills Alpine Flowers [1913] 50 cards An good early example of a Wills flower set (someone at Wills was a gardner I assume). Good quality board my only complaint is the stark white background which can be difficult to fine in higher grades 80 years later. Still I can and I do, if it was easy so would everyone else and I would not be one of the best in the business. So well done Wills. Checklist
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Wills Garden Flowers by Sudell [1939] 50 cards From one of the earliest examples to one of the last examples. Issued in 1939. The card itself might not be as thick, the text design on the reverse might have been modernised but there is no mistaking it is still a quality product. It might only be 60 years old so it is good to see Wills stuck to its roots right to the end. Checklist
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Wills Roses 2nd Series (51-100) 1913 50 cards This is getting a bit like a Wills appreciation page. Still why not, they deserve it for all the efforts they made on the flower front (I am not even mentioning the Garden Hints and related series they did). Indeed this card is only here to represent three series they produced of Roses. Okay you have to be a real Rose fiend to want all three sets (or a really determined cigarette card collector) but every collector should treat themselves to one of these sets. That isn't a salesman talking that's a collector suggesting. Checklist series one Checklist series 2 Checklist different
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Players Useful Plants & Fruits [1902] 50 cards Some sources give this as a 1904 issue, either way, early. It does not quite fit in with the rest of this page as it has a more commercial angle to it but really it is just to good to leave out of this line-up. Also it can represent Players very well in this line up. Good quality card, highly detailed illustration and that nice use of colour so often in eveidence with the earlier issues. Not easy to get hold of I don't see any reason why it will become more easy in future so now might just be the time to get the set if you want to, there is only one direction the price of this set is likely to go.
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Wills, Flowering Trees and Shrubs [1924] 50 cards This set is compartable in detail to the Gallaher, Woodland Trees series but gives more space to the foliage rather than the tree. Also only 50 cards and less than half the price.
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Wills, Wild Flowers [1923] 50 cards I'm not going to apologise for yet another series of Wills. As ever detail, detail, detail is what a Wills set is all about. Wild Flowers could be another word for weeds but look at it this way, if they are on someone else's land you don't have to worry about them. Checklist
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Wills, Old English Garden Flowers [1910] 50 cards If they are called Old English in 1910 you can assume they are even older by the end of the 20th century. Lovely set of cards if only because it represents the sort of flowers your Great-Grandparents were trying to grow before the First World War. A different world where gardens were English and you pottered about it them (or your gardener did) Checklist Checklist
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G.Phillips, Annuals [1939] 50 cards Just to stop the Wills 'love-in' Godfrey Phillips alos got in touch with its feminine side to produce a flower series. Doesn't cost as much as many on this page and that is never a bad thing as there is no real loss in quality as a result.
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Gallaher, Garden Flowers [1938] 48 cards With this set Gallaher produced a more conventional format series in terms of artistic style. It is still obviously a Gallaher set mind.
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Wills Trees [1937] L40 cards As if I cannot find enough Wills cards about flowers I now show you the most wonderful of Trees sets. Okay only 40 cards but they are large. Forget that Gallaher set I showed you at the beginning (I'll let you into a secret it is over $700US, imagine if they had done it as a set of 100 large cards) this is the tree set for me, I'd choose it over the Gallaher set everyday of the week but that's a personal opinion the Gallaher set has its fans (usually people trying to sell it actually).
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