Tobacco Cards,FIREFIGHTING,VINTAGE FIRE EQUIPMENT,1930

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Description: Original Tobacco Card Set - John Player & Sons, Firefighting Appliances. This set of 50 cards was issued in 1930. Condition: Very Good to Excellent. PLEASE NOTE: None of my cards have been trimmed or altered in any way. If they appear out of shape it will be due to my poor scanning and not poor cards! Plus: If you're not familiar with tobacco cards they were issued as free insert with packets of cigarettes in the year stated above. Below is an image of the first few cards in this set, this set like all my others sets come in plastic storage pages as shown. Subjects featured in this set are as follows: 17th Century Fire Apparatus, Newshams Fire Engine 1721, Fire Appliances 1735, Fireman and Manual Engine About 1750, Manual Fire-Engine Late 18th Century, The First Steam Fire-Engine 1830, Fireman of The Royal Exchange Association About 1832, The Hodge Steam Fire-Engine 1841, National Fire-Escape In Use 1846, Hodges Manual Fire-Engine 1862, A Famous Fire-Engine 1863, Direct Acting Fire-Engine 1865, Tozer Fire-Pump About 1870, Small Manual Fire-Engine 1870, Hand-Drawn Horse-Carriage And Reel 1873, Steam Fire-Float 1874, Chemical Engine Hand Drawn 1878, Piano Type Fire-Engine 1880, Typical American Fire-Engine 1880-90, Steam Fire-Engine 1880, Quick-Hitch Harness About 1881, Hose And Ladder Carriage 1880, Lazy Tongs Fire-Escape, Hand Force-Pump 1883, Valiant Portable Steam Pump 1883, Fire-Escape Ladder and Canvas Chute 1884, Factory Pattern Manual Fire-Engine 1885, Quadricycle First-Aid Hose Carrier 1895, Horse Chemical Engine 1899, Paris Type Manual Fire-Fighting 1900, Metallic Manual Fire-Engine, First-Aid Appliance 1903, Motor Turn-Table Fire-Escape 1908, Electric Fire-Engine 1910, Side Car Hose and Ladder Carriage 1910, Motor Cycle and Side-car with Manual Fire-Pump 1910, Motor-Cycle First-Aid Firefighting Outfit, Ideal First-Aid Fire Appliances, Operating A Large Jet, Operating Hose From Water Tower, Mefisto Flame Resisting Clothing, Hand Fire Suds Machine in Use, Line Throwing Gun in Use, Smoke-Helmets in Use, Automatic Spraying Helmets in Use (this one's a classic!), Motor Fire-Float Beta III, Monitor On Motor Fire-Float Beta III, Hatfield Trailer Motor Fire-Pump, Modern Three-in-One Motor Fire-Engine & Six-Wheeled Motor Fire-Engine with Hatfield Pump. Description of Condition POOR: Usually torn or creased cards, damage to picture or damage to reverse of card, damaged (rounded) corners also if card is very dirty. FAIR: Showing signs of considerable handling, causing corner or edge damage or a card from one of the better categories listed below with one of the defects mentioned above. GOOD: Showing a bit of age with only slight damage such as slightly damaged corners (not quite 'sharp' corners), slight discolouration (but not stained), but certainly not torn or creased. VERY GOOD: Cards are clean on both front & back, with pretty good sharp corners, we do allow for slight signs of wear along the edges for example. looking nearly as good as the day they were printed. EXCELLENT: I would class these as cards that have been handled but with a lot of care causing no visable damage. MINT: Not a grading I like to use very often as how can you expect a collectable to be so old and in 'Mint' condition? Well it is if they look the same as the day they were printed. To be fair this does include cards with imperfections which were caused during the printing process which we have no control over such as off centre printing, slight colour imperfection, marks caused by faulty printing plates etc... To view all my current lots in one go just ! View all current cigarettecards Auction Listings! cigarettecards Specialises in Selling all types of collectable cards. Keep an eye on my weekly listings which also include single 'type' cards, sets, cigarette cards frames, card storage binders, pages and anything else I can find related to Tobacco & Trade card collectables! Am i a trusted ReliableMerchants member ??? Cl... read more

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