Here is Gar Wood, the World`s Speed Boat Champion.
There are two very interesting webpages about Gar Wood and his boats – one is a sensible website, that of the Antique Boat Museum of Clayton New York whilst the other is more my kind of website, and goes into other details including what happened to his house. That`s a site called jobbiecrew, but it does contain adult themes on other pages.
Now this page will eventually be the home page of the entire "Bunte Bilder" group. That set title means Bergmann`s coloured pictures", but there is a bit more, for the full title should continue with "von Walter Trier" or by Walter Trier, who was the artist. And he is very interesting indeed for he was Jewish, born in Prague in 1890. He studied to become an artist and illustrator, and moved to Berlin a few years after graduating, where he became famous for his caricatures, though he also illustrated many books, especially for children. However in 1936 he left Germany, and came to England, where he would work on a whole range of anti-German propaganda leaflets and books. After the Second World War he moved to Canada. And he died in 1951.
These cards were designed to fit in albums called "Bergmann`s Bunte Bucher" - Bucher meaning books. And they are in two groups, which are listed in our original World Tobacco Issues Index as :
- 1. Buch 1 (100). 7 sub series, numbered from Bild 1 upwards
1. Bremer Stadt Musikanten (10)
2. Buhne und Film (20)
3. Clowns (10)
4. Hans Im Gluck (10)
5. Lustige Trachtenbilder (10)
6. Sport-Karikaturen (30) [in newsletter, scroll down to Monday 30 January 2023]
7. Zehn Negerlein (10)
- 2. Buch 2 (100). 9 sub-series numbered from Bild 1 upwards
1. Buhne und Film (10)
2. China - Japan (10)
3. Die Schnellsten Menschen (10)
4. Helden die Jugend (10)
5. Hunde aus aller Welt (10)
6. Lustige Trachtenbilder (20)
7. Rund um Tabak (10)
8. Sport Karikaturen (10)
9. Zwerg Nase (10)
By the time of our updated World Tobacco Issues Index, a Buch 3 has been discovered and those sets are:
- 3. Buch 3 (100). 14 sub-series numbered from Bild 1 upwards
1. Altes Deutsches Spielzeug (10)
2. Anekdoten (10)
3. Bauernspruche (10)
4. Der Kampf um den Pol (10)
5. Der Kinder Zoo (10)
6. Die Grossen Heerfuhrer (20)
7. Forscher und Erfinder (10)
8. Im Zirkus (10)
9. Jup reist nach Berlin (10)
10. Lustige Musikanten (10)
11. Olympia-Sieger 1932 (10)
12. Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche (10)
13. Vorboten des Reisens (10)
14. Wild West (10)