Card of the Day - 2021-10-12

Smith Battlefields Wild Geramium
F. & J. Smith [tobacco : UK]”Battlefields of Great Britain” - Wild Geranium brand (December 1913) 14/50 - S548-050.O : S84-2.O

Here we have the Battle of Hastings, as depicted by F. & J. Smith.

Now at the moment we have a main page for this, to save us repeating the information every time we use one of the fifteen backs. At the moment this is housed with the Card of the Day for 20th of March 2024 - but it is going to change, in the future, once all the Cards of the Day have been added to the index.

In their 1950 catalogue, The London Cigarette Card Company quotes between 5/- and 15/- for odd cards and £37 a set, but does not mention a very important point - that there is more than one back printing. Actually there are fifteen, as follows : Albion Gold Flake Cigarettes, Auld Brig Flake, Cut Golden Bar, Glasgow Mixture Cigarettes, Glasgow Mixture Tobacco, Goodwill Virginia, Kashan Cigarettes, No.1 Mixture, Orchestra Cigarettes, Pinewood Cigarettes, Pinewood Mixture, Squaw Thick Black Tobacco, Studio Cigarettes, Sun Cured Mixture and Wild Geranium Cigarettes.