Card of the Day - 2022-12-01

Carreras "Figures of Fiction"
Carreras [tobacco : UK] "Figures of Fiction" (April 1924) 11/25 - C151-260 : C18-44

Took me a while to find the number on this card, so that is your teaser for today, though you do have the advantage of my finding what it is! 

Here we have a most unusual beard, blue in colour. This fairy tale was very old, and draws in many tales of murderous husbands, but it was collected and retold by Charles Perrault in the first ever "Mother Goose" book. 

This seems to be his only appearance on a cigarette card. However, according to eBay there is a set of eight large cards on him by Allyn Blanchard & Latimer, who sold, or maybe just roasted, coffee in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. And I have now found them on the Trading Card Database/Allyn where all eight are displayed