This was not too much of a teaser, for it showed a lifeboat in action, fighting its way through inclement weather and choppy seas. It is a most atmospheric card.
And it was chosen so that the day of the two hundredth anniversary we did celebrate with a card of a lifeboat.
But it was not identified as so on the front of the card, unlike all the others we have found, and so it got the nod.
We do not know whose brush, or pen drew this really atmospheric work, it is not recorded anywhere. Maybe you know, and if so do tell us, please.
This set was one of a small group of seven series issued between 1922 and 1927.
It is catalogued in both our original World Tobacco Issues Indexes as :
SHIPS OF THE WORLD. Sm. 66 x 35. Nd. (50)