Card of the Day - 2022-09-20

Gallaher "Animals and Birds of Commercial Value"
Gallaher [tobacco : UK] "Animals & Birds of Commercial Value" (November 1921) 22/100 - G075-30 : G12-42

Here we have a sheep from which wool is derived. It is also one of the very few cards in this rather non-animal-friendly set which do not involve eating or skinning, lethally. Cards of this set do vary in size, 62/63 x 37x38 mm. There is something curious about it because our two sets of World Tobacco Issues Indexes just list it as a single set. However, what follows is extracted from the 1944 Gallaher Reference Checklist Book RB.4, and it makes it plain that there are five different printings - the two different boards on the original set - the two reprints - and the plain back version. 

Gallaher Animals Birds RB4