Tobacco Cards, VINTAGE, LONDON TOWN, STREET CRIERS,1916

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Description: Original Tobacco Card Set - John Player & Sons, Cries of London 2nd Series. This set of 25 cards was issued in 1916. Condition: Very Good. 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. Street Criers featured in this set are as follows: Door Mats,want?New Potatoes, Old Cloaks, Suits or Coats, Fair Lemons and Oranges, Small Coale, Buy my Four Ropes of Hard Onions, Buy a Fine Singing Bird, Buy my Fine Singing Glasses, Buy my Dutch Biskets, A Brass Pott or and Iron Pot to Mend? Any Work for John Cooper, Buy my Curds and Whey, Cowcumbers to Pickle, Ripe Asparagus, Buy my Fat Chickens, Fine Writing Ink, Diddle,Diddle,Diddle Dumplens,ho! Twelve Pence a Peck, Oysters! Maids Buy a Mop, Knives, Combs or Inkhores, Buy my Right Yorkshire Cakes, Buy my Muffins, Wood Three Bundles a Penny, Hot Peas, Windmills, Roasting-Jacks, Toasting-Forks or Skewers. Description of Condition POOR: Usually torn or creased cards, damage to picture or damage to reverse of card, damaged read more