This is the third and final set in this triumvirate which you can read more about with the Ogden`s version, which we featured as a Card of the Day on the 20th of May 2025.
The first time our South African version appears in any reference books, it is a round up, as part of RB.17, covering the issues of the British American Tobacco Company, which was published in 1952. That reads :
- 200-288 PICTURESQUE PEOPLE OF THE EMPIRE. The recordings in W/288, RB.15/131 and RB.17/147 are summarised below.
A. Wills` Overseas issue
B. Player Overseas issue, with `Drumhead` cigarettes.
C. U.T.C. issue
D. Ogden Home issue.
By the time of our original World Tobacco Issues Index , in 1956, it appears with the UTC listings,
under section 2, for "Issues 1918-43" and sub-section 2.A, for "Cards in English only" - as opposed to "Cards in English and Afrikaans" - as :
- PICTURESQUE PEOPLE OF THE EMPIRE. Sm.67 x 36. Nd. (25). See RB.21/200-288.C ... U14-26
This data is identical in our updated World Tobacco Issues Index, only the card code being changed, to U560-510