Michele RB.15 – The Cigarette Card Issues of Ogden`s Ltd Part I All issues excluding “Guinea Gold” series
Editor – Edward Wharton-Tigar
Printer – Collins & Wilson Ltd, London E.C.1
Date of Completion – July 1948
Date of Publication – 1949
Limited Edition of - 500
Original cost – 17/6
Pages – 104
Illustrations – 68
Number of cards shown – 487
Out of Print by –
The O/57 code comes from our original Ogdens reference book RB.15, which was published in 1949. Curiously the full title of this book is "The Cigarette Card Issues of Ogdens Ltd. Part I. All issues excluding "Guinea Gold" series” and the reason for this was that those Guinea Gold cards were to form a “Part 2”, which is actually listed amongst the “Proposed 1949 Programme” from the back of RB.11 (Wills Part II), and moves to “In Preparation” on the back cover of RB.14 (Wills Part III). However after that it discreetly disappears. It was finally published as RB24 in 1959, and was reprinted in 1978, as a hardback, combined with the Ogdens Part 1. These were both superseded in 2015 by our very grand and informative book on Ogdens and Guinea Gold, which you can buy from our bookshop.
In fact, after having done a bit more research, according to a long list in the inside back cover of RB.9, our guide to Lambert and Butler, issued in 1948, the Ogdens “book” was actually planned to be a trio, with the standard Ogden cards as book one, the "Guinea Gold" as book two, and the "Tabs" as book three. The first part, just the Ogden issues, was earmarked to be published during 1948, along with Phillips, Taddy, and Wills Part II. Taddy and Wills were, but Ogden did not appear until 1949, and when it was it also included the Tabs issues, because they were “so closely interlocked with other issues that segregation was found impracticable in a work which includes Ogden`s overseas issues” - many of which referred to “Tab” in their title.