Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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25 September 2010
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A couple of month`s ago, I was given a very large collection of pre-war cigarette cards which my best mate, who sadly passed away 2 years ago, had been given, and in turn, his mum had given to me. Above are pictured a small part of his collection, which I`m now trying to sort through, and get into display pocket`s. Such a variety of cards, on every subject you could imagine, and I didn`t realise just what a vast selection of topics there were. The tobacco companies between the wars issued literally, million`s of such cards, and it must have done something to educate the masses. Are there any such free educational card`s about today in anything? I did in my younger days, eagerly collect the Brooke Bond tea cards, and alot of that knowledge is with me today. Alot of these cards are unfortunatley placed in their original pre-war albums in such a way that the information on the back cannot be read. What do you think, leave them in their original albums, with the backs of them unseen since pre-war days, or take them out for display in clear see through plastic pocket`s?
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25 September 2010
21:2572500If I were you Colin I'd go online and Google up some advice. You might be sitting on a lot of high value collectibles there and you may harm their credibility if improperly handled. I know this from an old mate of mine who collected original cinema movie posters and one-sheets. A lot of his posters were torn and damaged but there was one very specific manner of repairing them that kept their value high, so it is well worth digging in and getting some info before you do anything.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 September 2010
21:2872503They are fabulous Colin; you could well have some valuable ones there. My Dad used to collect them but after he died they probably got thrown away. I wish we had kept them.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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25 September 2010
21:3072504Thanks Rick. I already had some cigarette cards, and I`ve looked into ebay, though I shall be keeping them at the moment, but the market place is the London Cigarette Card company online which buys and sells cards/collections. A bit late for me to start collecting now, but I can belatedly see a good hobby if I had the chance again.
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25 September 2010
21:4372510i used to collect the cards from "dividend" tea when i was a kid, i would never have known about the woomera rocket range in australia, table montain in cape town, south africa and bikini atoll otherwise.
these cards made things much more entertaining than anything that schools spewed out to us.
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25 September 2010
22:0972515Jeane, they`re so colourful and interesting. Pre-war RAF badges, naval uniforms, wildflowers, garden flowers, birds, butterflies and moths, aircraft, railway trains, naval vessels, garden hints, wild animals, dogs, film stars, film scenes, jockeys, sportsmen...........Such a diversity of contemporary knowledge, something sadly lacking today. I think the old dividend tea cards must have been the most popular of the post war cards Howard?
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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25 September 2010
22:4372532I know someone who is a keen collector and expert on cigarette cards; when I see them again (probably in about 3 weeks) I can ask his advice. If they are in sets, in original albums I guess it is better to leave them where they are. If not the plastic folders made for these would be ideal.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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25 September 2010
23:2072536You started one here Colin.
I have an album of some very old news paper cartoons by a well known artist starting in the 1930's. and a few original drawings.
I think the National cartoon archive is in Canterbury but never got round to checking it out.
I also have some very interesting artifacts from history that lives in my house, no one ever notices them but me and would hate to get rid of them. hows about I photo them and let you all have a look?
One or two have a very interesting story behind them.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 September 2010
23:3272537Definately Ian !
Been nice knowing you :)
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26 September 2010
07:4972552I have some as well at home.. i keep thinking i need to get them valued and shift them on ebay or something because i dont appreciate them really.
They are pretty but came from a non relative Auntie... ( you remember the type) she also gave me a very pretty picture which I have left at Mum and Dads as I am scared I am going to ruin the water colour!
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26 September 2010
08:3472558Yes Ian, get them on here mate, and you too Jenni if you can. Thank you Kath, I won`t be too hasty on removing these cards yet. I did slip one out last week, and read the description on the back, as these older albums didn`t always have the description already printed alongside as in later albums, whereby you could place the card in without having to remove it again later. I can`t get it back in there again now without a bit of bending about. They`re silk cards of foreign birds, and the most colourful of the lot. Only 25 in the set, they date from 1935. There are other cards in the same album, so it`s not an exclusive album for this particular set. When I did get it out last week, I did look at the back of it and the one behind it, with the mind boggling thought that they possibly haven`t been viewed since the 1930s when they were placed in there.
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26 September 2010
14:1672588This album was made by Ian Bowen of All Souls College Oxford. The first entry is 25-10-1933.
The drawings and cartoons are by Sir David Alexander Cecil Low 1891-1963.
There are quite a few so have just selected the odd few at random. The political climate has not realy changed after all this time.
Albert Einstien.
Sir john Reith.
There are lots of cartoons poking fun at all parties.
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26 September 2010
14:2172590Absolutely brilliant cartoons !
Here is some (Wiki) info about him:
Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891-19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney, Australia in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.
Low was born in and educated in New Zealand. His first work was published when he was only 11 years old. His professional career began at The Canterbury Times in 1910. The following year he moved to Australia and worked for the Bulletin. His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury the part owner of The London Star and he moved to London in 1919 and worked for them until 1927 before moving to The Evening Standard. Here he produced his most famous work, chronicling the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the conflict of World War II. His stinging depictions of Hitler and Mussolini led to his work being banned in Italy and Germany and being named in The Black Book.
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26 September 2010
15:0872597Yes Ian, great cartoons and I`ve always wished I could do that sort of thing today, so much fun you could have. As Kath mention`s above regarding Low being in Hitler`s black book, Walt Disney was on his death list as well for his Donald Duck, anti-fascist cartoon`s.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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26 September 2010
15:3172600Thanks for the info Kath, does anyone know where the National cartoon archives are kept in Canterbury?
As you say Colin the Black book and Walt, guess what............
Notice Micky mouse climbing up the stilts.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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26 September 2010
17:3572613ohh up the Hill at UKC.. well thats a little less known thing isnt it?
Didnt realise that was up there at all... strange...
