This shows the two main symbols of Easter, the egg, universal symbol of rebirth, and the hot cross bun with its religious cross but also as a pagan symbol of Spring.
Today there are many weird and wonderful combinations of Easter Egg and Hot Cross Bun, and every year the makers vie to make the most extravagant and newest, Some may feel this is a gimmick, but I am not so sure. Isn`t the important thing to encourage new people to follow the old traditions so they stay alive ?
This is more or less the same set as the Wills original but issued by British American Tobacco. However we do not know where or with what brand. We may know where later as I now remember that this info is often in the front index of the British American Tobacco booklet, RB.21, and I only looked at the text, where it is simply described as a "General Overseas Issue".
If you compare this to the W.D. & H.O. Wills version you will see that they did not only change the back but they removed the maker`s name from the front. In our card this was easy to do, as it was on the plain white background, but on some cards that title was on top of a multi-coloured background and it must have been a mighty job to do.