Our last moustache is a Van Dyck, named after a painter. It is sometimes called a Van Dyk or a Van Dyke, both simply being spelling variants. This style consists of a moustache and a separate small or goatee beard which is crucially not joined to each other.
This card actually shows a painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, who was actually Flemish, but became the most sought after painter for the British royalty and society, and was eventually buried in St. Paul`s Cathedral. Some say that this all came because he was already rich, his father being one of the top silk merchants in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe; but the truth is that it would not have happened at all if he had not been such a skilled painter, and more or less self taught from a very young age.
Now I am sure you are wondering whether the artist sported a Van Dyck moustache himself. Well he only ever painted three self portraits, but in one, that you can see at The National Portrait Gallery/Van Dyck yes, he definitely does.
There were several versions of this set. They are well summarised in our World Tobacco Issues Indexes as :
1. ISSUES 1907-16
1A. SMALL CARDS. Size 67-68 x 36-37 m/mCHAIRMAN MINIATURES. Sm. Nd. See RB.21/200-261.B. "Indexed Album" advertised on backs.
1. "First Series", Nos. 1/50. Inscribed "Chairman Miniatures".
Front (a) with gilt border (b) without border
2. "First Series", Nos. 51-100. Inscribed "Chairman and Vice-Chair Miniatures".
Front with blue border.
Now actually the cigarettes were called "The Chairman" Cigarettes, and they were straight cut Virginia tobacco, ten to a blue packet. I have been unable to find a "Vice Chairman" packet, which makes me think it may be tobacco. Anyone out there know?