Card of the Day - 2023-04-05

walkers dominos wtc
Walkers Tobacco Ltd [tobacco : UK] "Dominoes" untitled (1924) Un/28 - W090-100 : W10-2 : Ha.535.2

A companion to yesterday`s Card of the Day, here we have the later version of Walker`s Dominoes. I wonder why they felt the need to have a second set, entirely re-drawn too? 

Anyway our original World Tobacco Issues index lists only this version, as : 

Dominoes (A) Sm. 60 x 36. Blue. Back in blue, "W.T.C." monogram in centre oval, without firm`s name. Set to double six (28). See Ha.535.2

Our updated World Tobacco Issues Index says much the same but adds that the dominoes are unnumbered, and that they are inscribed "Copyright"

H and Ha codes always refer to the handbooks, and strangely though this set is there, and the back is shown, there is still no mention of yesterday`s card. Yet that quite unmistakably says Walker`s and Cigarettes - and neither of those words appear on these cards. That makes me wonder if the earlier issue was a much later discovery - and if I find that out as I go along I will let you know