Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1920
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: probably 100
Card Size: 1 11/16" x 2 3/4"
Issued as insert with what product:
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Issuing Company: Unknown Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: 1920 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: probably 100 Card Size: 1 11/16" x 2 3/4" Issued as insert with what product: |
Notes: Checklist incomplete. Blank-backed. The first card I saw from this set was card #28 Thomas Meighan, so that is the name of the set for now.
The photos from this set were taken from xerox copies, so the actual coloring of these cards will look different from the scans.
Collector Larry Tabone Jr. reports that he has a group of 15 of these cards that were found in a plain envelope with writing on it that said "LUNA PARK, Coney Island 1919 1 cent movie star cards."
There are quite a few of these cards titled Mack Sennett Comedies and showing unidentified Mack Sennett actresses. These may be a part of the identified film stars set, or they may be a separate set. The numbers on these cards are sometimes hard to read, but it appears that there are numbers that are used for both an identified film star and a Mack Sennett Comedies card, which may indicate two separate sets. For now I'm putting both types of cards into the checklist, but this may change as more cards are found.
Date info: Card #78, titled Mary and Doug, shows a picture of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The Mary Pickford Foundation website shows a copy of that same picture, which they date to 1920 and place at Pickfair, the home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford after they were married in March of 1920. That card would seem to date the set to 1920 or later. Mary Maurice died in 1918. This set was probably issued in 1920 or 1921. I'm placing a 1920 date on the set.
Thanks to Bob Richardson, Larry Tabone Jr., and Paul Falzon for help with this checklist.
1. Max Linder
2. Clara Kimball Young
3. Earle Williams
3. Mack Sennett Comedies
4. William Farnum
5. Edith Storey
6. Ruth Roland
7. Mary Pickford
8.
9.
10.
11. J. Warren Kerrigan
12. Tom Moore
13. Florence Lawrence
14.
15.
16. Mary Fuller
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28. Thomas Meighan
29. Marguerite Clayton
30.
31.
32.
33.
34. Betty Compson
35.
36.
37. Mack Sennett Comedies
38. Anita Stewart
39. Mack Sennett Comedies
40.
41. Arthur Johnson
42. May McAvoy
43. Mack Sennett Comedies
44. Bert Lytell
45.
46. Jane Novak
47.
48. Alice Joyce
49. Carlyle Blackwell
50.
51.
52. Douglas Fairbanks
53.
54. Lilian Gish
55.
56. Tom Mix
57. Mack Sennett Comedies
58.
59. Francis X. Bushman
59. Mack Sennett Comedies
60. Wallace Reid
61.
62. Blanche Sweet
63.
64.
65. Mack Sennett Comedies
66.
67. Mack Senett Comedies
68. Douglas McLean
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75. Mack Sennett Comedies
76.
77.
78. Mary & Doug
79.
80.
81.
82. Charles Chaplin
83.
84. Dorothy Gish
85. Mack Sennett Comedies
86. Billie Burke
87.
88. Jack Pickford
89.
90. G. M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98. Mary Maurice
99.
100. King Baggot
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