Plaistowe Film Stars

Issuing Company: Plaistowe & Co., Ltd.
Country of Issue: Australia
Year of Issue: 1930s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 21
Card Size: 2 7/16" x 5 1/4" (61mm x 132mm)
Issued as insert with what product: Confectionery Products

Notes: The backs of these cards state that there are 21 cards in the set, only 19 are known at the moment.

Eric Panther (President of the Australian Cartophilic Society) wrote a great article about Plaistowe cards for the Australian Cartophilic Society magazine and has kindly agreed to let me reproduce it here. Click the picture above to read the article.

Thanks to Eric Panther and Peter Green for help with this checklist.


Richard Arlen
Jack Buchanan
Maurice Chevalier
Claudette Colbert
Juliette Compton
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich
Billie Dove
Sally Eilers
Janet Gaynor
Wynne Gibson
Anne Grey
Jean Harlow
Carole Lombard
Edmund Lowe
Mary Pickford
Lilyan Tashman
Helen Twelvetrees
Lupe Velez


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