Objectnummer
TN.2009.3408
Titel
Collection of cigarette cards with England & Australia teams, Lord's 1934
Datum
1934
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45 x 34.5 cm
Beschrijving
Twelve (12) Player's cigarette cards with portraits. Commemorating Test match between England and Australia, Lords, 22nd - 25th June 1934. Includes typed match report.
Taken from an old museum display, possibly as part of this object due to similarity in initials on report on object (EW)
Cricket as Depicted on Cigarette Cards
In his book “The Picture of Cricket”, published in 1955, John Arlott writes:-
“The finest pictorial record of cricket in this Century is presented in Cigarette Cards”.
The earliest known cigarette card which contain cricket subjects were issued in Australia toward the end of the 1880’s. The first extensive series of cigarette cards dealing entirely with Cricketers is believed to be a set of 50 issued in England in 1896 by Messrs. W D & H O Wills. A selection from this series, together with a cross section of cards from issues between 1986 and the present day are shown in these frames.
It is estimated that there are over 11,000 different cards of cricketers and cricket subjects, issued mostly with cigarettes but partly with other commodities such as confectionary, and with periodicals. Allowing for duplications in various sets, there must be at least 2,000 different Cricketers depicted on these cards. The longest series of cricket cards was issued by Taddy & Co in 1908 and runs to 238 subjects including virtually all the first-class players of that season. Another long series of 192 was put out by Godfrey Phillips in the early 1920’s.
There are several hundred series of cigarette cards which deal with Cricketers or have cricket subjects. These were issued in most of the cricketing countries of the world, viz: Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, South Africa, India and some even in America, China, Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Germany and Malta.
The display of cigarette cards and this set of multi-leaf frames have been presented by MCC Member Mr E C Wharton-Tigar of the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain (a Society of Card Collectors)
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