Card of the Day - 2022-03-10

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“Bridge Across the Mississippi”. I don’t know the bridge, there is a site showing bridges over the Mississippi but it freaked me out, don’t know why, the photo of number three was way too much information and I quit there.

Wonder if it does this to anyone else?

A mixture of bridges from across the globe appear in this attractive set, though it was only issued within the British Isles. You can also find this set bearing the names of Edwards Ringer and Bigg (E265-540 : E14-31 – issued 1925) and Faulkner (F150-750 : F14-32 – issued in April 1925) both of these sets have descriptive text backs about the bridge depicted, and they are numbered, our card becoming 49/50. Our Faulkner Reference Book (RB.1), originally published in 1942, tells us that the cards were printed by Mardon, Son and Hall, so it is pretty safe to presume that they printed the others too. 

In  the London Cigarette Card Company 1950 catalogue the Player cards were from 2/6 to 6/- each or £15 a set – with Edwards Ringer & Bigg and Faulkner both at 1/6d a card, 100/- a set. Obviously these were more in supply at that time simply because the Player cards were twenty years older.