This card was sent me by a reader who has been compiling a list of the countries, the newspapers, and the figures - simply because France has a lot of different newspapers, and it is presumed other countries may also have more than one. But this is where the list seems to have halted, the same cards keep turning up that are already listed, and no more. The last addition, some time ago, was the Russian one, which seems very scarce indeed - and I have anglicised the wording, which is in Cyrillic.
He also has a list of other issuers, which I will have to tap in later, and maybe at the same time we will even change this anonymous version for a back showing one of those.
Anyway the cards known so far are :
- America - "The New York Herald" - a Native American
- Austria - "Neue Freie Presse" - a man in lederhosen
- Belgium - "L`Independance" - a soldier in a green uniform
- Brazil - "Jornal do Commercio" - a man in shorts dancing
- Cuba - "La Voz de Cuba" - a man in a striped suit
- France - "Gil Blas" - a man in red tights with a cherub
- France - "La Chronique Parisienne" - lady in short red velvet outfit with boots
- France - "La France" - a lady dressed as the Statue of Liberty"
- France - "La Lanterne" - a boy with a lamp in his hand
- France - "La Parisienne" - a lady in a pink long dress
- France - "La Republique Francaise" - a lady with a sword and lion
- France - "Le Figaro" - man in bullfighting outfit
- France - "Le Gauloise" - an ancient Gaul with shield and helmet
- France - "Le Journal Amusant" - a lady dressed as a chicken
- France - "Le Monde Illustrie" - a lady in red with a drawing and a globe
- France - "Le Petit Journal" - a newspaper boy with the papers in his sack
- France - "Le Petit Parisien" - a boy blowing a pretend flute
- France - "Le Rappel" - a soldier in tricorn hat with a drum
- France - "Le Temps" - Old Father Time
- France - "Le Voltaire" - elderly woman in armchair with globe
- France - "L`Univers" - a man in a loose red robe with armour beside him
- Germany- "Rheinische Zeitung" - a soldier with a beer stein [the first word is obscured but it is Rheinische]
- Great Britain - "The Times" - a soldier in red
- Italy - "Il Secolo Gazetta di Milano" - lady with tambourine
- Russia - "Tonocb" - a man in a blue Russian uniform and fur hat
- Spain - "La Epoca" - a lady flamenco dancer