![T045-500 [tobacco : UK] James Taddy & Co "Sports & Pastimes" (1912) Un/25](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-02/4%20toboggan.jpg?itok=NsczqCzP)
Tobogganing, showing here, is really the basis for bobsled, which has been a Winter Olympic Sport since 1924 – with the exception of 1960, in California, when the organisers decided it was too expensive to build a track - and both of these sports were the forerunners of the Luge, which was introduced in 1964.
It also gives me a chance to celebrate the Jamaican bobsled from 1998, because in all things I cheer wildly for those who have little in the way of help and everything in the way of obstacles, and come and do it anyway. And if you never saw it, the Jamaican team were the inspiration for the feel good movie "Cool Runnings."
Likewise, I have to give a cheer for Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards; he was also the subject of a movie “Eddie the Eagle (2016)”, and to find out what he is doing now, head over to grunge
This set is quite fascinating, and not just because it says "Series 1" without ever having been provided with a follow up. However you would not know how fascinating it is by simply looking at the listing in our World Tobacco Issues Index, which reads just :
SPORTS AND PASTIMES. Sm. Nd. (25) See H.225 ... T6-27.
It is that "H" number which tells of the full story, and as we have not featured the set before, this becomes the main page to which all the spurs will return. And from where you can in turn click and see the other versions.
Now H.225 reads as follows - though the dates and additional info within the square brackets has been added by me :
H.225. SPORTS AND PASTIMES SERIES 1 (titled series). Fronts in colour. Numbered series of 25.
Pre-1919.
Anonymous - Plain backs - [actually issued by Teofani in 1924]
Hudden [& Co. Ltd. of Bristol - 1926]
Redford [& Co. of London - 1906 - first ever version]
Taddy [& Co. of London - 1912]
Post 1920.
T.H. Collins [of Mansfield - 1923]
Goodbody [T. P. & R. Goodbody, Dublin & London - 1925]
Overseas :
Anonymous - Teofani - inscribed "Smoke these cigarettes always [1924]
Bucktrout [& Co. Ltd, Guernsey, Channel Islands - 1926]
Sandorides - "Big Gun" Cigarettes [W. Sandorides & Co. Ltd, London - 1924]
Trade :
James Almond & Sons [of Manchester - bread - 1925]
Edmondson [Jonathan Edmondson & Co. Ltd of Liverpool - confectionery - 1916 - titled "Sports and Pastimes Series"]
Evershed [& Son Ltd of Brighton - with "Dolphin" brand soap - 1914 - also titled "Sports and Pastimes Series"]
Sword & Co [W. Sword & Co. of Coatbridge - Abernethy biscuits - 1926 - also as "Sports and Pastimes series"]