Newsletter - 2026-07-04

Saturday, 27th June 2026

This set was indeed issued in July 2017, and its claim to fame is that it is Kylian Mbappe`s "Rookie" card, as well as the fact that his is the only "Rookie" in the entire set - at least at the moment, but you will have to read on to find out more about that.

Kylian Mbappe Lottin was born on the 20th of December 1998, in Paris to a sporting family, his father, Wilfrid, being a football coach and his mother, who is also his agent, being a handball player. This rubbed off on to his younger brother and adopted older brother, and they were also football stars.

Strangely, our man does not seem to have played for any team before he joined the second team of Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club in 2015.  We have not yet found him on any squad cards with the Monaco team, but if we did that would be very exciting, as it would alter his "Rookie" card.. Not long after that he was playing for both their second and first teams.

Two years later they loaned him to Paris St. Germain, which is where he was playing when this card was released, and in 2018 that team signed him up, for a reputed sum of a hundred and eighty million euros. I`m not entirely sure that figure can ever be justified with so many people in need of the basics just to keep alive, but he did become became their all-time top goalscorer, scoring two hundred and fifty six times.

In 2017 he also made his first appearance for the French International team, and at the 2018 World Cup Final he became only the second teenager to score a goal at that stage of the contest. The other, of course, was Pele. 

In 2024, he joined Real Madrid Club de Futbol, on a free transfer, and he remains there today. 

This set was originally advertised as being available at hobby stores in May 2018, but it did not arrive until July the 20th.

There are several sets of inserts, and four sets of parallel cards, which are the same as ours but have different colours on the inner frames where our card is blue. The other colours are Emerald, Gold, Ruby and Sapphire, the last of which leads to a bit of confusion, because that is also a blue, but it is much shinier. And also the cards have prefixes before their numbers, Emerald`s being  SN1, Gold`s SN50, Ruby`s SN25, and Sapphire`s SN75

Sunday, 28th June 2026

This July set is catalogued first in our original World Tobacco Issues Index as : 

• LIFE ON BOARD A MAN OF WAR. Sm. Nd. (50). See H.38 ... E14-18

And this is the same wording in our updated World Tobacco Issues Index, save a new card code, of E265-400

As far as H.38, that`s in the handbook, and the entry reads : 

• H.38. LIFE ON BOARD A MAN OF WAR or BRITISH MAN OF WAR SERIES (titled series). Fronts in colour. Numbered (except Player), but order differs from listing below. Series of 50. 
  
  Pre-1919 
  
            Bigg - Titled "Life on Board a Man of War"
  
            Edwards, Ringer & Bigg - Titled "Life on Board a Man of War"
  
            Player - Titled "Life on Board a Man of War in 1805 and 1905", unnumbered
  
  Overseas
  
             Anonymous - Titled "British Man of War Series of 50". Plain back. Recorded in Burdick under C.49, page 41, as issued by Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada
   

There then follows a list, but only of the unnumbered Player set so I have changed it to allow for the inclusion of the Bigg and the Edwards, Ringer and Bigg numbered versions.The Player set is also split into twenty-four subjects showing life in 1805 and twenty-six showing it in 1905, which is rather unwieldy, so I have chosen to list them all in alphabetical order and just give the date from the Player`s set.

Now if we look at the London Cigarette Card catalogue for the same year as the handbook, we find the following :

• W.O. Bigg - odds from 8/6 to 25/-, sets at £60
• Edwards, Ringer and Bigg - odds from 6/6 to 20/-, sets at £50 - and this is where we get the issue date, of July 1905
• John Player - odds from 1/6 to 4/-, sets at £10 - and this is where we get their issue date, of October 1905

So that destroys the oft held belief that Player`s issued their set first and Edwards, Ringer and Bigg copied it...The only thing we don`t know is when W.O. Bigg issued theirs.

Monday, 29th June 2026

Here we have the first part of a two part set, the other will come along tomorrow, and the front will already be visible when this can be read. 

But let`s start with our man, billed as "A. Cotter, N.S.W." whose story turns out to be a fascinating, and poignant, one, of a life cut short. 

His name was Albert "Tibby" (or, in some references "Tibbie") Cotter, and he was born on the 3rd of December 1883. His skill at cricket was first spotted at school in Sydney, so much so that by the age of eighteen he had already been signed up to play for his county, New South Wales. Two years later, he was on the international field, bowling for Australia, a team he continued to play with for nine years and twenty-one tests. He was not always popular, and in 1905 his delivery to, of all people, Dr. W. G. Grace, is often claimed to have been the origination of the idea of aiming straight at the opponent that was later developed into the infamous practise of "Bodyline" bowling. 

In April 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces - perhaps through seeing a particularly rousing poster and believing it was his duty, or perhaps because someone pressured him into it, as we know that once he had joined there was a lot of rousing propaganda about how a leading sportsman like him had joined up. He was sent to the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment, and he joined them at Gallipoli, arriving near the end of the campaign and finding that much of their war was being spent as foot soldiers, dug in to trenches, though there were a few mounted charges, most notably the one from Pope`s Hill on August the 7th 1915. 

Later he moved to the 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment, which also served at Gallipoli, and was at the second Battle of Gaza, on the 17th-19th April, 1917. At the end of October of that year there was another charge, at the Battle of Beersheba, on the 31st of October. Then there is confusion, as there probably was in real life, and not just to our story, because it is recorded that as the troops dismounted he was shot at close range by a Turkish soldier, whilst other reports say that he was attending the men, as a stretcher bearer, and shot mistakenly. Further research proves that he was actually supposed to be serving as a stretcher bearer, but managed to convince another man to change places, fearing that it could the last "charge" of the war. And, unfortunately for him, it was just that.

His body was brought back to Australia and buried at Waverley Cemetery in what seems to be a family plot. It is also a sad one, for the headstone, which is an extraordinarily long one, has three stone books each apparently pinned up as flat and open, and the first of these reveal that his brother, John, was also killed in action in on the 4th of October 1917, whilst serving in France, (though research proves it was actually in Belgium that he died), and two other people, an Arthur Dale, married to our man`s sister who was "killed accidentally" on the 30th of May 1921, and an L.S.O. Edwin Cotter who was also "killed accidentally" on the 14th of December 1929. I cannot find the first one of these two at all, and he has no military rank, but the second does have a military rank, which basically means he was either killed in a vehicular crash, a weapons malfunction, or another kind of equipment failure, just not killed on the battlefield, so he cannot be recorded as "killed in action" even though he was still serving his country at the time. One clue may be that rank, as it is L.S.O., or Landing Signal Operator, which today means the people who guide the aeroplanes back on to the deck of an aircraft carrier from the ground. Now though Australia’s first dedicated aircraft carrier was H.M.A.S. Albatross, not commissioned until 1929, the job was the same when aeroplanes came in to land on an airstrip on the ground, and we know that the Australian Flying Corps were in action in the Middle East from 1915 to 1918. So it is not inconceivable that he was struck by an aircraft as it failed to land.

However I have done a bit more research on that, and it seems both were actually killed in different railway incidents, Arthur Dale being run over by a train almost halfway between two stations, and being discovered "frightfully mutilated", and L.S.O. Edwin Cotter "falling from a train" en route to Sydney.

The next book records his father and mother, who seem to have had more peaceable ends, dying at the ages of 83 and 84 respectively, and the last book is for another brother, William Henry, his wife, and their daughter. 

I`m glad this was a Card of the Day, it is already way too long for a diary date description, and now we have the card chat...!

This set first appears in part three of our original Wills reference booklets, as part of a cricketers group listing, described as : 

• 59. CRICKETERS - Australian Issue
  
  H.  50 Prominent AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH CRICKETERS. Size 67 x 35 m/m. Numbered on backs. See Fig. 41.H. Fronts lithographed in colours; backs in green, thick board. 

In the original World Tobacco Issues Index the set is still listed under the large group of "Cricketer Series", but the entry is slightly different. That reads : 

• CRICKETER SERIES (A). Sm. ... W62-221
  
       4. 1907-1908 issues. Titled "Prominent Australian and English Cricketers". "Capstan" brand issues. See W/59 H and I.
  
          (i) - Nos. 1/50. Size 66 - 67 x 35
  
         (ii) - Nos.51/73. Size 63-64 x 36
  
                 A. Fronts with letterpress in grey. Nos. 51/73
  
                 B. Fronts with letterpress in reddish-brown. Nos. 66/73, same subjects as A, different portraits and numbers

The only difference to the above in our updated World Tobacco Issues Index is that the final word is changed to "numbering" - and, of course, there is a new card code, for the group, of W675-347

Tuesday, 30th June 2026

Now this is definitely not a July issue, but it follows on neatly from yesterday`s set as a quick reference. As for when it was issued, the Wills Works Magazine cites both yesterday,`s and today`s, as being out in July 1907, but the first Test was not played until the 13th to the 19th of December 1907, which seems rather a gap. And also we know that the man on this card was one of those added to the original set, subsequently, when it was announced that they would be on the Test team. So all we really need to know is when the team for the Test were announced. And we know it was probably issued no later than February, as the fifth and final Test was played between the 21st and 27th of February, 1908. 

Let us pick up the card story, first, because the listing we added yesterday from the original Wills reference booklet part three continues with the following 

• 59. CRICKETERS - Australian Issue
  
  I.  23 .Prominent AUSTRALIAN AND ENGLISH CRICKETERS. Size 64 x 36 m/m. Numbered 51-73 on backs. See Fig. 41.I. Fronts lithographed in colour, subject titles in grey; backs in green, thin board. 
  
            Nos. 66-73 were issued in two forms (a) original issue, as cards Nos. 51-65, with grey captions (b) re-issue with red brown captions. The eight subjects are the same in both issues but portraits were changed in the re-issue and numbers altered - 
   

  no.	- (a) original issue [grey caption to front]	- (b) re-issue [red caption to front]
  66.	-   F. L. Fane (Essex)	-  A.O. Jones, Nottingham
  67.	-  J. B. Hobbs (Surrey)	-  J. N. Crawford, Surrey
  68.	-  J. Hardstaff (Nottinghamshire)	-   F. L. Fane, Essex
  69.	-  A..O. Jones, (Nottinghamshire), Captain	-  J. Hardstaff, Nottinghamshire
  70.	-  J. N. Crawford (Surrey)	-  R. A. Young, Sussex
  71.	-  R. A. Young (Sussex)	-  S. F. Barnes, Stafford
  72.	-  S. Barnes (Staffordshire)	-  J. B. Hobbs, Surrey
  74.	-  J. Humphries (Derbyshire)	-  J. Humphries, Derby

  The above eight players were all members of the M.C.C. Team which toured Australia in 1907-8, and the balance of the touring side are represented in the cards under item H. It appears probable, therefore, that item H was issued in 1907, and item I, 1907-8

So there is one thing to discuss from that entry, the numbering, which ends with "74" and skips 73. That is a typing error, as the cards of J. Humphries are both numbered 73.

In the original World Tobacco Issues Index the set is still listed under the large group of "Cricketer Series", but the entry is slightly different. That reads : 

• CRICKETER SERIES (A). Sm. ... W62-221
  
       4. 1907-1908 issues. Titled "Prominent Australian and English Cricketers". "Capstan" brand issues. See W/59 H and I.
  
          (i) - Nos. 1/50. Size 66 - 67 x 35
  
         (ii) - Nos.51/73. Size 63-64 x 36
  
                 A. Fronts with letterpress in grey. Nos. 51/73
  
                 B. Fronts with letterpress in reddish-brown. Nos. 66/73, same subjects as A, different portraits and numbers

As to why we chose the re-issue, well that was because the caption is in a different colour, so it shows the difference more strikingly, but fear not, for here is the original card 71, of our man, R.A. Young, so that technically means both sets are contained in this one listing, and also both are pictured within it. 

Image

Now looking at the two I think the reason for the re-issue might have been simply that this first version, with the caption and more importantly the name of the issuer, are extraordinaily light and hard to see. Look back to the top and see how they stand out much clearer. But why they changed the numbers and the order is a bit more hard to fathom - unless the grey fronted ones were sent out to Australia as printed cards by Wills, which we know they were as we have a month date in the Wills Works Magazine, and the re-issue, for which there is no date in that publication, was hastily done in Australia, without the artwork, and maybe when all the cards had been circulated. This theory would both account for the new pictures, and for the new numbering. What do you think?????

Wednesday, 1st July 2026

here we have gentle but naive Fanny Bolton, the daughter of the proprietor of the Shepherd's Lane Inn. She meets Arthur “Pen” Pendennis, quite by chance, and the two begin a slow dalliance, despite the fact that he is somewhat above her station. However we know that he is kind and gentle too, and the two would probably have become amazing friends, if never lovers. He has "lived a bit" though, having had a bit of a crush on an actress, done pretty awfully at University, moved to London and been seen with all the right people as a "Man About Town", had a little stab at journalism, and found himself becoming a Member of Parliament. Despite this, he seems very attracted to the idea of giving it all up and going with Miss Bolton, until one of his friends puts him off her, and maybe even dobs them in to his beloved mother. And so what could have been the perfect coupling is lost -  he goes on to marry his adopted sister, which was great for her as she always fancied him a bit, whilst Fanny marries a Mr. Huxter, who calls himself a surgeon but is only a medical assistant. Later, however, there is revealed to be a bit of a twist, for the friend who spilt the beans was none other than this Mr. Huxter, whose coarse and boorish ways had long ago alienated him from his former friendship with Arthur Pendennis - and we are left to wonder if the revealing of the relationship to the mother was not a deliberate ploy to gain the hand of fair Fanny. 

This set follows on from the two small sized sets of "Characters from Dickens", these being a First Series, issued in March 1912, a Second Series issued in October 1912, and ten extra large cards, which were originally issued in June 1914, and which we have yet to feature on our website. They did not just follow in in as much as being characters from literature, either, for they are also in exactly the same format of design, and all were from drawings by "Kyd" (J. Clayton Clarke). 

Now “Kyd”, was but a monogram, and a pseudonymous one at that, for it hid an artist called J. Clayton Clarke. And, thrillingly, he has another cartophilic claim to fame too, for he illustrated the set of "Votaries of the Weed" for Gallaher. But you can read more about him with the Card of the Day for the First Series, of the Dickens set, so as not to slow this one down any further. 

Our set is first described in our original reference book RB.17, issued in 1950, and devoted to the issues of John Player. There it is entered as : 

• 49  25  CHARACTERS FROM THACKERAY. Small cards drawn by "Kyd" (J. Clayton Clarke). Fronts in colour. Backs in grey, with descriptive text. Home issue, July 1913. 

That is much shortened in our original World Tobacco Issues Index, to simply 

• CHARACTERS FROM THACKERAY. Sm Nd. (25) ... P72-26

And this text is carried over identically to our updated World Tobacco Issues Index, with only a new card code 

• CHARACTERS FROM THACKERAY. Sm Nd. (25) ... P644-062

Strangely this set had no second series, and was never reprinted by John Player, not even when the Dickens sets (with which it is uniform) were, in 1923. 

The characters and their books are as follows : 

1.  Lady Southdown - Vanity Fair
2.  Lord Gules - Book of Snobs
3.  Harry Esmond - Esmond
4.  Cocksure - Book of Snobs
5.  Fred Bayham - The Newcomes
6. Tom Tusher - Esmond 
7. Fanny Pendennis [reverse says "Fanny Bolton (Pendennis)"
8. Lady Castlewood - Esmond
9. Dr. Portman - Pendennis
10. The Marquis of Steyne - Vanity Fair
11. Jos Sedley - Vanity Fair
12. Barnes Newcome - The Newcomes
13. Becky Sharp - Vanity Fair
14. Major Pendennis - Pendennis
15. Dobbin - Vanity Fair
16. Mr. Moss - The Newcomes
17. Capt. Costigan - The Newcomes
18. Ensign MacShane - Catherine
19. Mr. Goldmore - Book of Snobs
20. The O`Dowd - Book of Snobs
21. Mr. Gandish - The Newcomes
22. Rawdon Crawley - Vanity Fair
23. Col. Newcome - The Newcomes
24. C, J. Yellowplush - The Yellowplush Papers
25. Hon. Mr. Deuceace - The Yellowplush Papers

Just like the Players sets of Dickens Characters, this seems to follow no rhyme nor reason, and  simply adds characters when they think of them, rather than keeping the books from one character following on in a small group together. 

As for why this set was issued, researchers seem to feel it may have been to tie in with a book, "In Thackeray`s London", by Francis Hopkinson Smith, the first edition of which was published in the same year 1913. I am not so sure, as that book was American, published by Doubleday, and it is a rather small tome, bound in grey cloth.  Francis Hopkinson Smith was also American, an author and an artist, both of which are combined to good effect in the book - but he was also an engineer, and it was he who built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.

Thursday, 2nd July 2026

I picked this card simply because of the fact that the reverse mentions this race as being "the only occasion of the great race being run during a snowstorm". 

And that turns out to be true, though the severity seems not to have been as bad as the papers reported. But we do know that on May the 22nd, 1867, Derby Day was run in a mixture of freezing winds, sleet, and heavy snow, and that the bad weather led to not only ten false starts, but by the race itself starting in earnest almost an hour later than had been intended. 

As for the characters on the front,

• Mr. Chaplin - This was actually The Right Honourable The Viscount Henry Chaplin, a member of the Privy Council. Aged just twenty-one, he had inherited vast sums from his uncle, which led to him being considered one of England`s most eligible bachelors. Another on that list was Harry Hastings, his best friend, at least of the time, because they fell out, big time, over a woman. Her name was Lady Florence Paget, and though she was a little in love with both men, she had accepted our man`s proposal. It was to be the wedding of the year, until a month beforehand, when she went into Marshall and Snelgrove and exited by another door, straight into the waiting cab, and presumably arms, of Harry Hastings, for they were married that day, after which she wrote our man a letter saying they would never have been happy together. But the feud festered on; Harry Hastings was bidding on our horse Hermit when our man suddenly joined in to trump him, and at the Derby Harry Hastings put almost all his savings on Hermit losing, only to be the loser himself. This is also mentioned on our card, where it says "Heavy gambling was associated with this year`s Derby and a few large fortunes were won and lost". Harry Hastings died the following year, and his widow wrote to our man begging forgiveness (and maybe a second chance, for now she was not just a widow, she was a penniless one) but he never spoke to her again, nor answered any of the letters that she repeatedly sent. 
   
• J Daley - John Daley was born in 1846 in Newmarket, and his father was a racehorse trainer, which is how he probably got drafted in. His major claim to fame is winning the Epsom Derby, our race on our horse, and also the Epsom Oaks, on Hippia, both in the same year, However he grew too tall and heavy and was forced to retire in 1870, after winning the Two Thousand Guineas race, for which he was actually overweight. He died twenty years later. 
   
• Hermit was by Newminster, (the 1851 winner of the St. Leger) out of Seclusion, and he was foaled in 1864. He was bred by William Blenkiron, probably the most famous breeder of the age, and put up for auction in 1865. He was sold, for a thousand guineas, to Captain James Octavius Machell, who was, or who was in the process of becoming, racing manager for a man called Henry Chaplin. Hermit first ran in April 1866. He was thought to be an interesting prospect for the Derby but had some kind of incident in training shortly before it which led to his form being downgraded. This was his only Derby win but he did win the St. James Palace Stakes in the same year, though it was to be his last one at racing, for he suffered badly after running three times in three days at Doncaster, coming in more than once with a bleeding nose and mouth and being completely exhausted. After that, he retired to stud, where he had an even more illustrious career, and would go on to be the leading sire, and the leading broodmare sire, in Great Britain and Ireland, several times. Now the decision to send him out to stud seemed odd to me, because it is very often the case that this form of nasal bleeding, which is also taking place on the inside too, is genetic, and after searching the archives I did indeed find that both his mother and his father had been reported as suffering it, so it almost certainly popped up later in more than a few of his children. And guess what, the "incident in training" also turns out to be severe bleeding from the nose. And he lives on, though he died on the 29th of April 1890 - for his skeleton is at the Royal Veterinary College in London, and has been used to train generations of students. And it seems likely that this picture of the him comes from a painting, by Harry Hall, done in the 1870s. 

The cataloguing of this set actually begins in Cartophilic World, which was the official Cartophilic Society publication between March 1943 and November/December 1964. It may have continued, but in 1965 we took the Cameric Cigarette Card Club beneath our wings, and began again with volume one, number one of "The Cartophilic Notes and News", a title which combined our “Cartophilic World”, with their “Cameric Notes and News”. That entry is right at the back of volume 3, number 33, in the edition dated for November 1945, and it reads as follows : 

                                                  F. & J. SMITH (continued)

                                        "DERBY WINNERS" - series of fifty.
Another "duplex" series consisting of pictures of Derby winners from 1864 to 1912 with photo of owner and trainer inset. Date of issue approximately July, 1913. 

                                         ADVERTISEMENTS ON CARD BACKS

1.  "Squaw" Thick Black Tobacco 
2.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
3.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
4.  "Orchestra" Cigarettes
5.   Auld Brig Flake
6.  "Studio" Cigarettes
7.  "Studio" Cigarettes
8.   Wild Geranium Cigarettes
9.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
10.  "Albion" Gold Flake Cigarettes
11.  "Albion" Gold Flake Cigarettes
12.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
13.  "Orchestra" Cigarettes
14.   Goodwill Virginia
15.  "Kashan" Cigarettes
16.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
17.   Sun Cured Mixture
18.   No. 1 Mixture
19.  "Squaw" Thick Black Tobacco 
20.  "Albion" Gold Flake Cigarettes
21.  "Orchestra" Cigarettes
22.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
23.   Auld Brig Flake
24.  "Studio" Cigarettes
25.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
26.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
27.   Sun Cured Mixture
28.  "Orchestra" Cigarettes
29.   Cut Golden Bar "Twilight" Brand
30.   "Albion" Gold Flake Cigarettes
31.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
32.   Goodwill Virginia
33.   "Kashan" Cigarettes
34.   Cut Golden Bar "Twilight" Brand
35.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
36.  "Studio" Cigarettes
37.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
38.   Wild Geranium Cigarettes
39.  "Orchestra" Cigarettes
40.   "Kashan" Cigarettes
41.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
42.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
43.  "Studio" Cigarettes
44.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
45.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes
46.   "Albion" Gold Flake Cigarettes
47.   No. 1 Mixture
48.   No. 1 Mixture 
49.   Glasgow Mixture, Mild, Medium, and Full
50.  "Pinewood" Cigarettes

By the time of our original World Tobacco Issues Index it is therefore recorded as :

• DERBY WINNERS. Sm. Brown. Nd. (50). Vari-backed, 14 wordings - see C.W., page 264 ... S84-6

However, and sadly, because the chance of tracking down back issues of "The Cartophilic World" has grown ever smaller with the passing of time, the entry in our updated World Tobacco Issues Index is simply recorded as :

• DERBY WINNERS. Sm. Brown. Nd. (50). Vari-backed, 14 wordings ... S548-150

Friday, 3rd July 2026

This is one of only three vertical cards in the whole set, and it is the only one to show an interior. More than that, the exterior of this church is shown too, on card 30, where it tells us that Lavenham is "An ancient town, near Sudbury. Population 2,018. The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a fine example of late Perpendicular, the chancel being older. It has a magnificent west tower, and a splendid east window. Undoubtedly an earlier Church stood here. A view of the interior is given on No.31"

I have not found a connection between Churchman and Lavenham, but it just seems off that this Church was singled out to get two cards. But maybe we have a Churchman specialist who does know of a link between the two. 

The set is first described in our original reference book RB.10, devoted to Churchman issues. The listing reads ;

• 152.  July 1919.  WEST SUFFOLK CHURCHES (titled series). Size 2 11/16" x 1 7/16" or 67 x 36 m/m. Numbered 1-50. Fronts printed by letterpress, half-tone in one printing, in sepia, Backs in blue. Printed by Mardon, Son & Hall 

By the time of our original World Tobacco Issues Index, it has been rather reduced, to just : 

• WEST SUFFOLK CHURCHES. Sm. Sepia. Nd. (50) ... C82-90

There is something I picked up on as it is not in section 2.A, obviously, for that is for sets issued between 1903 and 1917, but it is the next section 2.B. However, this is dated as being for cards issued 1922 to 1939, and that contradicts the dating given above of July 1919. And this has not been changed in the updated World Tobacco Issues Index, where everything about the listing remains the same, save a new card code of C504-700