Country of Issue: Originating in England and exported to other countries
Year of Issue: 1920s
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set: 52
Card Size: 1 7/8" x 2 1/2"
Issued as insert with what product: Cigarettes
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Issuing Company: British-American Tobacco Co. Country of Issue: Originating in England and exported to other countries Year of Issue: 1920s Color/B&W: Color Number of Cards in Set: 52 Card Size: 1 7/8" x 2 1/2" Issued as insert with what product: Cigarettes |
Notes: This set can be found with at least four different back designs, two numbered and two unnumbered. One numbered design is an anonymous back titled "Cinema Stars." Another back design shows an ad for Westminster cigarettes and is titled "Movie Stars." There is different numbering between the two back designs, and there are two cards that are different between the two back designs. The checklist shown here shows the anonymous numbering first, with the Westminster numbering in parenthesis.
There are also two unnumbered versions of this set. One is blank-backed, and the other is titled "Cinema Stars" and has advertising for Mavrides Egyptian Cigarettes from Cairo, evidently an Egyptian version of this set.
An auction seller from Indonesia was seen selling cards from the Westminster Movie Stars version of this set, so it is likely that set was issued in Indonesia, and may well have been issued in other countries as well.
Thanks to Richard Minns and Amit Benyovits for help with this set.
1. (no Westminster) Buster Keaton
2. (28) Annette Kellerman
3. (no Westminster) Charlie Chaplin
4. (9) Eddie Polo
5. (48) Harry Carey
6. (10) Eddie Polo
7. (37) William Farnum
8. (13) William Russell
9. (38) Dustin Farnum
10. (24) Harold Lloyd
11. (5) Rudolph Valentino
12. (38) Dorothy Dalton
13. (44) Jackie Coogan
14. (41) William Duncan
15. (27) Alice Joyce
16. (11) Eddie Polo
17. (1) Earle Williams
18. (6) Norma Talmadge
19. (2) Clara Kimball Young
20. (26) J. Warren Kerrigan
21. (15) House Peters
22. (50) Constance Binney
23. (16) Jack Pickford
24. (51) Betty Blythe
25. (40) Bebe Daniels
26. (34) Corinne Griffith
27. (14) "Snub" Pollard
28. (45) Alice Calhoun
29. (30) William S. Hart
30. (18) Tom Mix
31. (25) Harold Lloyd
32. (20) Katherine Macdonald
33. (35) Corinne Griffith
34. (23) Elmo Lincoln
35. (42) Priscilla Dean
36. (8) Alice Terry
37. (32) Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
38. (29) Charles Hutchison
39. (52) Francis X. Bushman
40. (21) Mae Marsh
41. (33) Douglas Fairbanks
42. (39) Hazel Dawn
43. (17) Ruth Roland
44. (43) Marion Davies
45. (12) Anita Stewart
46. (49) Beverley Bayne
47. (31) William S. Hart
48. (4) Constance Talmadge
49. (3) Marie Walcamp
50. (7) Norma Talmadge
51. (22) Bert Lytell
52. (19) Tom Mix
(no Anon) (47) Charlie Chaplin
(no Anon) (48) Charlie Chaplin
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