Now if anyone has this in the uncut form, a scan would be most appreciated - even more so if it is the double uncut form. Or failing that, just a note of which fish swims beside this one on that double slide.
This clue was designed to confuse as it is a Perch, but in ground or land measurement terms a "Perch" measures exactly 5 1/2 yards. It is also known as a rod, and it also measures 16 1/2 feet, or a quarter of a chain, which are useful indeed for measuring land into acres. In fact a perfect acre measured forty perches one way by four perches the other - a total of a hundred an sixty perches in total.
Now if you look in our original World Tobacco Issues Indexes under Carreras you will find`Turf` Cigarettes listed twice. This is because the brand was also between 1925 and 1937 for sets issued through Alexander Boguslavsky. You need to go right to the end of the Carreras listing to find our version, which fall under “Issues 1947 onwards”. The header reads :
HOME ISSUES. Printed on inner slides of `Turf Cigarettes` - one on 10s, two on 20s packings. Front in blue. When cut off, cards are `Turf` brand issues. Listed in order of issue.
This date of issue order starts with the 1947 “Film Stars” and ends with “Famous British Fliers” in 1956. Our set is just above that, listed as :
BRITISH FISH. Nd. (50). Descriptive text on attachment, Issued 1954-55
This is the only set which has that additional wording, and I will add what it reads later on because if you trim the card right down as someone has done to mine they also trim off the wording.
If anyone has a single or double uncut of this card, by the way, and would like to have it (or even them) featured here instead, just send us a scan of the front(s)
In the updated World Tobacco Issues Index the sets are listed in alphabetical order, starting with 1953s “British Aircraft”, and ending with the 1954s “Zoo Animals”. Our set has moved all the way up to second in the listing.