Here we have a moustache which has led to some confusion. You see today it is known as a "Fu Manchu", after a series of films based on the detective stories of Sax Rohmer, though there is no mention of him being moustachioed in the books or in the first film adaptation, in 1923, with Harry Agar Lyons.
The first "Fu Manchu" to sport facial hair was "The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, released in 1929, and starring Warner Oland, however it was only a comb style moustacje and did not extend below or beyond the mouth.
Yet the definition of a Fu Manchu moustache hinges on it extending below the mouth into the chin, and sometimes downwards into thin air. And this sort of moustache was first seen on Fu Manchu only with the 1932 film "The Mask of Fu Manchu", starring Boris Karloff, rather a mishmash of a film, even managing to drag in poor Genghis Khan.
This set is often seen as a bit of a mishmash as well, for it comprises six cards with an Oriental theme, all but one of which has a pot of Liebig product in the image - and they all have different background colours. Some people do not think that the card without the Liebig pot belongs to this set at all, but they cannot suggest any that that are interlopers in any other sets and may fit here in this one instead.
The cards are
- two women at a stall, Liebig pot on table - purple background
- woman in straw hat showing puppet doll on stick to two children, Liebig pots are used as lanterns - green background
- woman with two children, one of whom has a large balloon with a face on it, Liebig jar hanging from a green wall sash - yellow background
- two children? looking at huge Liebig jar on feet - red background
- man showing mask to two children, liebig jar as lantern on wall
- man with long pigtail being pulled by grumpy white dog, no Liebig jar - browny-gold background
As for part one of this series, F.070 or S.071, issued in 1878, it is entirely different, and is also, rather confusingly, known as simply Scenes Chinoises, or Chinese scenes. The cards have a picture of at least one person within a gilded frame, whilst outside are pastel colours and small images of flowers. And all of those have a Liebig pot.