Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1922
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 1 15/16" x 3 7/16"
Issued as insert with what product: Bread
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Issuing Company: Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: 1922 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: Card Size: 1 15/16" x 3 7/16" Issued as insert with what product: Bread |
Notes: Checklist may be complete. The Huber's Bread group of these cards were issued with blank backs. An ad for the Huber Bread promotion states that there are 96 cards in this giveaway. There was an album issued for this set. There is also a fan showing cards from this set.
The cards used for this set contain the same fronts as those used in the Distinguished Players group (listed in the Theatre Sets section). There are over 200 different cards in the Distinguished Players group of cards. The Huber Bread set contains a subset of the entire group of Distinguished Players cards. These cards all came from the same source, and can be considered one large group of cards, much like the T206 baseball set was issued with many different brands of cigarettes with differences in which particular cards can be found with a particular brand.
Some of the captions in the Huber Bread set are positioned a little differently than the other groups of these cards. For example, the Jane Gail card has her name centered and raised up about a 1/2 inch from the bottom on other cards from this group, but the Huber bread version shifts her name to the left a bit and positions the name at the very bottom of the card. The Mae Marsh card from other groups has her name in black ink and raised about 1/2 inch from the bottom, while the Huber Bread version has her name in white ink and at the very bottom left of the card. The Mae Marsh Huber Bread card also has a different photo cropping, zooming back a bit to show more of the picture. These are just examples, as there are other cards that have differences, too.
There are two different cards for Madge Kennedy, showing two different photos, one showing her standing in a full body pose, the other with just head and shoulders with some flowers in front of her. In original albums of cards seen for this set, I haven't seen these two cards together yet. It is possible that the full body card was replaced with the head and shoulders version at some point, as the full body card is the only card in this set that shows a star in a full body pose, and the issuers may have wanted to standardize the look of that card.
Since the Huber Bread cards have blank backs, it is difficult to tell if a loose blank-backed card from this group is a Huber Bread card or a card from another group of these cards, since some other groups also have blank backs. Most of these existing cards are found stuck into their albums, making identification as a Huber card much easier.
Date info: An ad for the Huber Bread movie star card promotion dates the start of the promotion at January 3, 1922.
Thanks to Todd Riley for help with this checklist.
May Allison
Mary Anderson
Leah Baird
Theda Bara
Bessie Barriscale
Enid Bennett
Carlyle Blackwell
Holbrook Blinn
Mary Boland
Irene Boyle
Alice Brady
Dolores Cassinelli
Mary Charleson
Marguerite Clark
Ethel Clayton
Marguerite Courtot
Grace Cunard
Viola Dana
Mildred Davis
Marjorie Daw
Mr. & Mrs. Carter De Haven
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Edward Earle
Douglas Fairbanks
Dustin Farnum
William Farnum
Geraldine Farrar
Louise Fazenda
Irene Fenwick
Margarita Fischer
Harrison Ford
Jane Gail
Maude George
Dorothy Gish
Lillian Gish
Creighton Hale
Ella Hall
Miss Alma Hanlon
W. S. Hart
Wanda Hawley
Martha Hedman
John Hines
Louise Huff
Elsie Janis
Madge Kennedy (standing, full body)
Madge Kennedy (head and shoulders with flowers)
Jack W. Kerrigan
Lila Lee
Robert Leonard
Harold Lloyd
Anne Luther
Eddie Lyons
Hughie Mack
Cleo Madison
Mae Marsh
Vivian Martin
Marc MacDermott
Violet Mersereau
Mary Miles Minter
Matthew Moore
Lee Moran
Harry T. Morey
Mae Murray
Nazimova
Mabel Normand
Jane Novak
Dorothy Phillips
Eddie Polo
Marjorie Rambeau
Herbert Rawlinson
Charles Ray
Wallace Reid
Billie Rhodes
Ruth Roland
Alma Rubens
Jackie Saunders
Marguerite Snow
Anita Stewart
Ruth Stonehouse
Gloria Swanson
Blanche Sweet
Mabel Taliaferro
Constance Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Rosemary Theby
Marie Walcamp
Charlotte Walker
Lillian Walker
Henry B. Walthall
Fannie Ward
Bryant Washburn
Lois Weber (cursive text - Very Truly Yours)
Pearl White
Crane Wilbur
Earle Williams
Clara Kimball Young (no hat)
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