Cigarette Collection (page 15)

Sir Alan Cobham, British pioneer aviator, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Sir Alan Cobham, British pioneer aviator, 1926. Portrait of Cobham (1894-1973) who set several records for long-distance flights, and pioneered in-flight refueling

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1926. Portrait of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

GK Chesterton, British poet, novelist and critic, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
GK Chesterton, British poet, novelist and critic, 1926. Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Charlie Chaplin, British film actor and director, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Charlie Chaplin, British film actor and director, 1926. Portrait of Sir Charles Chaplin (1889-1977). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, admiral, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, admiral, 1926. Portrait of Beatty (1871-1936) who was Admiral of the Fleet. Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Austen Chamberlain, British politician, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Austen Chamberlain, British politician, 1926. Portrait of Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, statesman and newspaper proprietor, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, (1879-1964), British/Canadian statesman and newspaper proprietor, 1926. Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor, 1926. Portrait of Smith (1872-1930) who was a British lawyer and Conservative politician

Sir Hall Caine, British novelist, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Sir Hall Caine, British novelist, 1926. Portrait of Caine (1853-1931). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Sir James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, 1926. Portrait of British writer J M Barrie (1860-1937). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, Ulster leader and advocate, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, Ulster leader and advocate, 1926. Portrait of Carson (1854-1935) who was a lawyer, and leader of the Irish Unionists

Aga Khan III (Mohammed Shah), Leader of the Ismailis, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Aga Khan III (Mohammed Shah), Leader of the Ismailis, 1926. Portrait of the Indian-born Aga Khan (1877-1957). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, 1926. Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell (1857-1941) founded the Boy Scout movement

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin, British Prime Minister, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin, British Prime Minister, 1926. Portrait of Baldwin (1867-1927). Cigarette card with straight-line caricature, issued by John Player & Sons

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, 1926. Balfour (1848-1930) was a British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905

The Prince and Princess of Wales in shooting dress, 1900. Artist: Russell & Sons
The Prince and Princess of Wales in shooting dress, 1900. The future King Edward VII (with beard) and guests, probably at Balmoral Castle

The Model at Rest, 1925. Artist: Jean Louis Forain
The Model at Rest, 1925. An etching from Modern Masters of Etching, by JL Forain, (The Studio, London, 1925)

James Dunn, American actor, 1934-1935. Dunn started his entertainment career in vaudeville before moving into film in the early 1930s

William Powell, American actor, 1934-1935. Powell starred in the Thin Man series of films in the 1930s. He had a notable screen partnership with Myrna Loy, starring opposite her in 14 pictures

Ricardo Cortez, Austrian born film actor, 1934-1935. Born Jacob Krantz in Vienna, his name was changed to Ricardo Cortez by Hollywood executives with a view to competing with other studios romantic

Nils Asther, Danish-born Swedish stage and film actor, 1934-1935. Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave. (London, 1934-1935)

Body armour of the German Sturmtruppen (Storm Troops), Verdun, 1917, (1926)
Body armour of the German Sturmtruppen (Storm Troops), Verdun, France, First World War, 1917

Jack Raymond, British film director, 1933. Raymond (1886-1953) was a prolific director of British films in the 1920s and 1930s

Spanish coastguardsmen, c1890. An engraving from Robert Browns The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890)

Shanghai advertising poster, c1930s

Miss Granville in An Interrupted Honeymoon, c1902. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Miss Granville in An Interrupted Honeymoon, c1902. Portrait of actress Charlotte Granville

Advertising Poster for Cigarettes Mosselprom, 1923. Artist: Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930)
Advertising Poster for Cigarettes Mosselprom, 1923. Private Collection

Street Tobacco Vendor at the Tobacco Store, 1825. Artist: Pluchart, Eugene (1809-1880)
Street Tobacco Vendor at the Tobacco Store, 1825. Found in the collection of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow

Portrait of the Bookseller E. J. Fontaine, 1885. Artist: Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894)
Portrait of the Bookseller E. J. Fontaine, 1885. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

After The Luncheon, 1879. Artist: Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)
After The Luncheon, 1879. Found in the collection of the Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Advertising Poster for the tissue paper Job, 1896. Artist: Mucha, Alfons Marie (1860-1939)
Advertising Poster for the tissue paper Job, 1896. Found in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Advertising Poster for the tissue paper Job, c. 1900. Artist: Meunier, Henri (1873-1922)
Advertising Poster for the tissue paper Job, c. 1900. From a private collection

Advertising Poster for the Ukraine Tobacco Trust, 1924. Artist: Martynov, Arkhip Ivanovich (1887-after 1945)
Advertising Poster for the Ukraine Tobacco Trust, 1924. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The Armenians, 1880s. Artist: Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov
The Armenians, 1880s. Found in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography

Umberto Bratti, a Donzere-Mondragon canal and power worker, 1952. The Donzere-Mondragon dam on the River Rhone in France was built in 1952. It provides hydroelectric power

French Foreign Legionnaires, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, 1915. French postcard

Gypsy with cigarette, 1862. Artist: Edouard Manet
Gypsy with cigarette, 1862. Manet was interested in the exotic costume worn by this gypsy as well as her defiant expression

Louis Satchmo Armstrong (c1898-1971), American jazz trumpeter and singer. Armstrong was a major influence on the development of jazz as a popular form of music in the 1920s

Albert, Comte de Dion, French engineer, 1899. Together with George Bouton, de Dion (1855-1946) developed a lightweight engine which could be applied to motorcycles

Wright Brothers biplane Flier, 1910
Wright Brothers biplane Flier, used fuel injection, Card published 1910

Cigarette cards for Cornell and West Point universities, American, c1900

John Ball (1861-1940), British golfer, cigarette card, 1903

Harry Vardon (1870-1937), British golfer, cigarette card, c1903

Portrait of golfer JE Laidlay, c1896. Caption: addressing for approach stroke

Satirical advertisement for Copes Tobaccos, c1890s. Artist: John Wallace
Satirical advertisement for Copes Tobaccos, c1890s. During the 1890s Copes Tobaccos commissioned a series of political prints from artist John Wallace, who drew carttons as George Pipeshank

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season, 1876. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season, 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon

In Propria Persona, 1875. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
In Propria Persona, (1875?). Two young medical students debate the merits of vivisection. From Punch, or the London Charivari, September 25, 1875

Necessitas Non Habet Bye-Laws!, 1874. Artist: Charles Samuel Keene
Necessitas Non Habet Bye-Laws!, 1874. The perils of over-indulgence and mistaking the alarm bell for one that summons servants are illustrated in this cartoon about the gentleman travelling first

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