Flowing along there, today we have another source of fresh water, and that is a well. The well here is very famous, and still exists. Now the basic thought behind a well is that the precious source of the water is covered by stones or by some structure that prevents it being contaminated by animals, or by persons. And this term has also passed into the language for towns and areas that were famed for such things - for example Tunbridge Wells in Kent, and Wells in Somerset.
This is a complex set, and so we have a home page, with our Card of the Day for the 12th of October 2021, on which all the variations appear, and you can click a link to read more about each one. At the moment there is also the start of an F. & J. Smith biography, though that may move elsewhere later.
The brand on this card seems elusive, and it did not appear as part of their series of advertising cards. And I have not tracked down any tins. Looking at some other Smith cards, it seems that they used only the same wording as one this one, namely "Squaw Thick Black Tobacco". But I will keep hunting!
This version of the set appears in our original World Tobacco Issues Index as :
BATTLEFIELDS OF GREAT BRITAIN. Sm. Nd. (50) See Ha.475.
15 Backs. ... S84-2
- L. "Squaw" Thick Black Tobacco
The updated version of the World Tobacco Issues Index does vary, but only by removing the reference to Ha.475. However there is a new card code, of S548-050