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Player's Cigarette Cards

John Player & Sons, known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer, based in Nottingham, England. It is today a part of the Imperial Tobacco Group.

Player's were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include sets of general interest cards in their packs of cigarettes. One of the first sets, produced is 1893, was 'Castles and Abbeys'. These cards were generally produced in sets of 50 and have since become highly collectable. Other sets produced include 'Footballers' (1926), 'Civil Aircraft' (1935) and 'Motor Cars' (1936).

link: Cigarette Cards - 'Collect-it' Magazine.

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°1 King Parrot

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°3 Many Coloured Parrakeet

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°4 Red & Blue Macaw

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°6 Blue Mountain Lory

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°7 Red-Wing Parrakeet

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°8 Barnard's Parrakeet.jpg

Player's Cigarettes - Nature Series (set of 50 issued in 1909)

N°9 Military Macaw

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W.D. & H.O. Wills Cigarette cards

W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco.

In 1887, Wills were one of the first UK tobacco companies to include advertising cards in their packs of cigarettes, but it wasn't until 1895 did they produce their first general interest set of cards ('Ships and Sailors'). Other Wills sets include 'Aviation' (1910), 'British Butterflies' (1927), 'Garden Flowers' (1933) and 'Air Raid Precautions' (1938).

link: Cigarette Cards - 'Collect-it' Magazine.

Set of 12 postcard sized cards issued in 1929 - N°10 Nigeria

Set of 12 postcard sized cards issued in 1929 - N°2 British Guiana

Series: Birds of Australia - N°68

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

Series: Birds of Australia - N°62

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

Series: Birds of Australia - N°66

Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3891025-s1

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Tobler Cards: Series 8 - Parrots

Theodor Tobler (1876-1941), who gave his name to one of the most famous chocolates in the world (Toblerone), came from a humble background. His parents arrived in Bern in 1867 from the rural eastern canton of Appenzell, and his father, Jean Tobler (1830-1905) opened a chocolate shop. Jean founded his own factory in 1899, and Theodor took it over in 1900.

Source: http://sammelbilderalben.ch/toblerHaupt.html

1903: Album for Picture Cards (English and French version)

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

Series 8: Parrots, ca. 1900

Collectable cards he included with chocolate

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Liebig Beef Extract

Liebig's Extract of Meat is a historical product. It was a thick, dark, syrupy beef extract paste sold in glass bottles, and later in tins as well. It gained popularity first as a food for the poor, and then also as an ingredient in middle-class kitchens. It was also called "Liebig's Fleisch Extract" ("Fleisch" meaning "meat" in German), Fleisch Extract Syrup, or Fluid Beef.

source: http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/pages/liebigsextractofmeat

Justus von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. He developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts, and founded a company, Liebig Extract of Meat Company, that later trademarked the Oxo brand beef bouillon cube.

Liebig produced many illustrated advertising products: table cards, menucards, children games, free trade card sets, calendars, posters, posterstamps, paper and other toys. These were often in the form of trading card sets with stories, historical tidbits, geographic tidbits, and so on. The sets usually consisted of six cards, one card included per product sale. Many famous artists were contacted to design those series of cards, which were first produced using true lithography, then litho chromo, chromolithography and finally offset printing. The cards remain popular with collectors and are often collected in albums.

Liebig Beef Extract "Exotic Birds & Flowers" Italian issue, 1897

Liebig Beef Extract "Exotic Birds & Flowers" Italian issue, 1897

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Minnie's pet parrot - Children Book (1864)

Herriette Newell Woods was born on August 19, 1815 in Andover, Massachusetts. She began writing at an early age and had her first story published at age 10. Baker attended Abbot Female Seminary. She married Abijah Richardson Baker on October, 1 1835. Baker's first books were published in 1860 under the pseudonym Mrs. Madeline Leslie. It is believed that she went on to write anonymously or pseudonymously over 200 books. One of her other common pseudonym was Aunt Hattie. Many of her books had a religious or moral theme and her style was considered very true to life, with well drawn characters. She died in New York on April 26, 1893.

Minnie's Pet Parrot - 1864

Author: Mrs. Madeline Leslie (1815-1893)
Published: 1864
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/minniespetparrot00lesliala
Read the story online: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26617/26617-h/26617-h.htm
Download Pdf: http://www.archive.org/download/minniespetparrot00lesliala/minniespetparrot00lesliala.pdf
Summary: The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientific information with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bring before the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him in their history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits of each, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God’s creation.

Phineas the Parrot

Phineas the Parrot one-page filler

from Happy Comics #34 July 1943

source: Cartoon Snap

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