1935 Gallaher Shots from Films Card # 20 Hide Out (GD) for Sale

On eBay Now...

1935 Gallaher Shots from Films Card # 20 Hide Out (GD) For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

1935 Gallaher Shots from Films Card # 20 Hide Out (GD):
$1.49

1935 Gallaher Shots from Films Card #20 Hide Out (GD)Cigarette cards are trade cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.
Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the U.S.-based Allen and Ginter tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards. Other tobacco companies such as Goodwin & Co. soon followed suit. They first emerged in the U.S., then the UK, then, eventually, in many other countries.
In the UK, W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1887 were one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was John Player & Sons in 1893 that produced one of the first general interest sets ‘Castles and Abbeys’. Thomas Ogden soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set ‘Ships and Sailors’, followed by ‘Cricketers\' in 1896. In 1906, Ogden’s produced a set of football cards depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.
Each set of cards typically consisted of 25 or 50 related subjects, but series of over 100 cards per issue are known. Popular themes were \'beauties\' (famous actresses, film stars and models), sporters (in the U.S. mainly baseball, in the rest of the world mainly football and cricket), nature, military heroes and uniforms, heraldry and city views.
Today, for example, sports and military historians study these cards for details on uniform design.
Some very early cigarette cards were printed on silk which was then attached to a paper backing. They were discontinued in order to save paper during World War II, and never fully reintroduced thereafter.
The system devised to codify 19th Century American tobacco issues has its origin in the ‘American Card Catalog’ (ACC), written by Jefferson Burdick. Burdick listed the American Tobacco Cards in one section, broken down by companies that issued the card series and by the types of cards. The 19th Century issues were prefixed with ‘N’ (N1-N694) and the 20th with ‘T’. (T1-T235).
This 1935 settitled Shots From Famous Films was one of several Gallaher tobacco card sets and featured various movie stars in a number of movies. The cards were issued by Gallaher, Ltd., a London and Belfast tobacco producer.
The 48 cards contain delightful colour pictures taken from films of the period showing two of the stars.The front of the cards feature color images of the actors and the film name. The back of the cards describe the movie and the characters they play.
Amongst the featured films are \"Tarzan and his Mate\" an action adventure with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O\'Sullivan, \"Cleopatra\" featuring Claudette Colbert and Henry Wilcoxon, musical comedy \"We\'re Not Dressing\" with Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard, \"Flying Down to Rio\" with Ginger Rogers and Paul Roulien, Queen Christina starring Greta Garbo, \"Manhattan Melodrama\" featuring Myrna Loy and Clark Gable and \"Nell Gwyn\" with Anna Neagle and noted stage actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Some of the films such as \"A Cup of Kindness\" and \"The Barratts of Wimpole Street\" appear on more than one card, but with different pictures and actors.