Country of Issue: Belgium
Year of Issue: 1930s
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 1 1/16" x 2"
Issued as insert with what product: Chocolates
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Issuing Company: Clovis Country of Issue: Belgium Year of Issue: 1930s Color/B&W: Color Number of Cards in Set: Card Size: 1 1/16" x 2" Issued as insert with what product: Chocolates |
Notes: Checklist Incomplete. These can be identified by the word "Clovis" on the front with blank backs. This may be the same set as the Clovis Film Stars (CI.-P on Front). Card number 266 in each of these sets shows the exact same picture of Greta Garbo, the only difference being the two say either "Clovis" or "CI.-P". There is also a second #266 in this set, showing Ramon Novarro.
The numbering for all of the Clovis sets seem to go from 201 to 320.
Collector Richard Minns managed to gather up 9 different albums to examine the cards across the different series to try to help figure out this interesting and confusing group of cards. Richard reports that albums with cards stuck down are found with a mixture of the different Clovis designs. The completed albums were sent away to redeem an offer or prize as most albums have an address inked on the front cover. The albums were presumably returned to the sender once the offer was redeemed (this appears to have been done by hole punching each individual card stuck into the album which must have been a time consuming project.) One of the albums seen does not have hole punching but GF stamped on to the cards instead. Lots of loose cards turn up with the hole punching or GF stamp suggesting they were either removed from albums or loose cards (sets probably) could be sent in too.
There is a space in the middle of each album page which appears to be designed for either spares or postcards as it is a large oblong divided into smaller squares Most albums have random European Postcards glued into the space.
The albums do not have captions or names or checklists but contain a mixture of cards from different Clovis series so presumably collecting a set of the many different Clovis series was a valid way to redeem the offer too. This means that each album is different and unique as any different combination of numbers from any series could be used to do so.
Clovis was a company from the small town of Pepinster in Belgium that made chocolate candy. The company was in business from 1920 through 1966, when a large fire burned down the factory and put them out of business.
Thanks to Richard Minns, Greg Graetz, and Bernie Feldman for help with this checklist.
201. J. Barrymore & J. Crawford
207. G. Garbo & J. Barrymore
208. G. Garbo & J. Barrymore
209. Marlene Dietrich
211. L. Barrymore & J. Crawford
212. Greta Garbo
213. Greta Garbo
214. F. March & S. Sidney
215. Janet Gaynor
215. Dorothea Wieck
216. C. Brook & C. Colbert
217. Anny Ondra
218. Claudette Colbert
218. D. Wieck & H. Thiele
219. G. Garbo & L. Barrymore
220. G. Garbo & C. Gable
221. G. Garbo & C. Gable
222. C. Gable & N. Shearer
223. C. Gable & N. Shearer
224. J. Crawford & R. Montgomery
225. J. Cooper & W. Beery
226. Charles Rogers & Frances Dee
227. R. Novarro & M. Evans
228. R. Novarro & M. Evans
229. John Boles
229. R. Novarro
230. Marlene Dietrich
231. M. Dietrich & C. Brook
232. R. Montgomery & N. Shearer
233. Clark Gable
234. C. Gable & J. Crawford
235. P. Holmes & M. Hopkins
236. D. Fairbanks Jnr & M. Brian
237. R. Graves & F. Wray
237. J. Weissmuller & M. O'Sullivan (Tarzan scene)
238. H. Garat & Meg Lemmonier
239. C. Farrell & M. O'Sullivan
240. C. Nagel & L. Hyams
241. E. Lowe & M. Loy
242. J. Dunn & S. Eilers
242. Marlene Dietrich (with Herbert Marshall - uncredited)
243. L. Howard & N. Shearer
244. C. Morris & L. Hyams
245. A. Menjou & L. Hyams
246. M. Chevalier & J. Macdonald
246. Edwina Booth
247. G. Cooper & C. Lombard
249. W. Powell & C. Lombard
250. M. Lemonnier & H. Garat
251. D. Fairbanks Jnr. & M. Brian
252. Jeanette Macdonald
253. Janet Gaynor
254. Robert Montgomery
255. C.Morris & S.Sidney
256. W. Beery & C. Gable
257. D. Jordan & C. Gable
258. M. Dietrich & H. Marshall
258. Maurice Chevalier
259. Greta Garbo
260. Lilian Harvey
261. G. Garbo & R. Novarro
262. G. Garbo & E. von Stroheim
262. Garbo & M. Douglas
264. Leila Hyams
266. Greta Garbo
266. Ramon Novarro
268. Robert Montgomery
270. Ramon Novarro (with Dorothy Jordan - unnamed)
271. Marlene Dietrich
272. Phillips Holmes
273. G. Garbo & R. Novarro
274. Jackie Cooper
275. Madge Evans
275. Dorothea Wieck
276. Joan Crawford
277. Norma Shearer
278. Miriam Hopkins
279. Renate Muller
280. Joan Crawford
281. Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
282. Gary Cooper
284. F. March & S. Sidney
285. J. Gilbert & L. Hyams
286. G. Cooper & C. Colbert
288. Johnny Weissmuller
289. Maurice Chevalier (with Claudette Colbert - unnamed)
290. L. Damita & C. Ruggles
290. L. Damita & R. Young (Ruggles incorrectly captioned as R. Young)
291. M. Chevalier & M. Loy
292. P. Holmes & H. Twelvetrees
293. Tom Mix & Tony
294. Janet Gaynor
295. Maurice Chevalier (also Jeanette MacDonald on card but not listed on caption)
295. J. Gaynor & C. Farrell
297. Marion Nixon
298. Jeanette MacDonald
299. Meg Lemonnier
301. Madge Evans
302. Lilian Harvey
303. Madge Evans
305. Janet Gaynor (with Warner Baxter - unnamed)
305. Gary Cooper
306. M. Dietrich & C. Brook
307. J. MacDonald & M. Chevalier
308. R. Arlen & M. Brian
309. C. Brook & C. Colbert
310. J. Gaynor & C. Farrell
311. W. Haines & D. Jordan
312. Jean Murat
313. Claudette Colbert
314. R. Novarro & D. Jordan
316. Henry Garat
317. C. Rogers & N. Carroll
318. Suzy Vernon
318. Marie Glory
319. Greta Garbo
320. Andre Roanne
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