Purus Film Favourites

Issuing Company: Purus Bakeries Ltd.
Country of Issue: England (Handsworth)
Year of Issue: 1930s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 25
Card Size:
Issued as insert with what product: Tea

Notes: Click the small picture above to read an interesting article about this set by David Hewitt, first printed in the Australian Cartophilic Society magazine.

A blank back version of this set was also issued. 22 cards have been seen in the blank-back version, with Elizabeth Allen, Lionel Barrymore, and Jean Harlow not yet confirmed. The blank back version of this set has a British Trade Ref. Handbook Number of ZJF-020.2.

Thanks to David Hewitt and Richard Minns for helping with this checklist.


1. Joan Crawford
2. Lionel Barrymore
3. Marie Dressler
4. William Haines
5. Marion Davies
6. Sally Eilers
7. Jackie Cooper
8. Norma Shearer
9. Diana Wynyard
10. Ramon Navarro
11. Madge Evans
12. Wallace Beery
13. Laurel and Hardy
14. Helen Hayes
15. Robert Montgomery
16. Maureen O'Sullivan
17. Thelma Todd
18. Lewis Stone
19. Benita Hume
20. Clark Gable
21. Greta Garbo
22. Anita Page
23. John Barrymore
24. Jean Harlow
25. Elizabeth Allen


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