Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1929
Color/B&W: B&W (greenish tint)
Number of Cards in Set: unknown
Card Size: 1 1/8" x 2 3/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated weight machines
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Issuing Company: Peerless Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: 1929 Color/B&W: B&W (greenish tint) Number of Cards in Set: unknown Card Size: 1 1/8" x 2 3/8" Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated weight machines |
Notes: This checklist shows separate checklists for the Green Tint and the Black and White Series A sets. The Green Tint set is much more common than the Black and White set. The Green Tint set consists of 50 skip-numbered cards, with the complete checklist shown below. The Black and White checklist below is incomplete.
The Green Tint set contains 50 skip-numbered cards from 3 to 128. These cards can be identified by the A Series written on the front. On the back, these cards contain a fortune on one side, "FOR CORRECT WEIGHT stand still..." on the other, and a space for a weight printout in the middle. These have also been seen with advertising backs for the following companies:
The Burg Co.
A. L. Duckwall
F. & W. Grand-Silver Stores, Inc.
W. T. Grant Co.
S. S. Kresge Co.
Kress 5-10 & 25c Stores
The Leighton Industries, Inc.
J. G. McCrory Company
The H. A. McElroy Company
McLellan Stores Co.
The Metropolitan Store
O. J. Morrison Stores
C. G. Murphy Co.
Neisner Bros., Inc.
J. J. Newberry Co.
The Owl Drug Co.
Walgreen Drug Stores
Whitthorne & Swan
Exact year of issue not known. The weight printouts usually contain dates from 1929 to 1932 in the weight printout, so these cards must have been issued in 1929 or earlier.
The Green Tint cards say "A SERIES." There is a second "A SERIES" set that is in black and white and not green tinted. The backs of the black and white "A SERIES" look the same as the green tinted cards, so it is somewhat hard to tell the two sets apart, especially when looking at computer scans. The cards in the black and white set generally seem to have a bit wider borders than the green tint cards.
There is another Peerless set that is brown-tinted that says "Series A." That set is checklisted separately.
Here is a picture of all three different sets discussed here. (Green Tint on left, Brown set in middle, Black and White set on right)
This checklist shows both the green tinted "A SERIES" cards and the black and white "A SERIES" cards in separate lists. I'm trying to make this a picture checklist, since it is sometimes hard to differentiate the green tints from the black and whites. If you have any of these cards not pictured, I would appreciate a scan so I can add it to the checklist.
For the Green Tint A Series cards, I had #92 Clara Bow and #107 Dolores Del Rio on the checklist for many years, but since I have been including pictures of all the cards, I have not seen a picture of either of those cards, so I now think they probably do not exist. They have now been removed from the checklist. That puts the Green Tint set at 50 cards, which was a standard set size for Peerless cards of the 1930s.
Thanks to David York and Pat Chiappetta for help with this checklist.
Green Tint Set
3. Myrna Loy
5. Sally Blane
6. Chester Conklin
8. May McAvoy
12. Johnny Mack Brown
13. Mary Astor
15. Richard Barthelmess
16. Yola D'Avril
18. Kathryn McGuire
22. Bert Roach
23. Marion Davies
24. Thelma Todd
29. Paul Vincenti
30. Milton Sills
35. Louise Fazenda
38. W. C. Fields
40. Jack Holt
41. Jack Luden
42. Loretta Young
43. Donald Reed
51. Charles Rogers
52. Adolphe Menjou
54. Clyde Cook
59. Don Alvarado
62. Conrad Veidt
65. Renee Adoree
68. Raymond Hatton
69. Paul Lukas
71. Bebe Daniels
72. Mary Brian
73. Doris Hill
74. Dorothy Mackaill
79. Gilbert Roland
80. Monte Blue
81. John Miljan
84. Victor McLaglen
88. Corrine Griffith
89. Frances Hamilton
91. Larry Kent
93. Charlie Murray
98. Gwen Lee
100. George K. Arthur
101. Pola Negri
103. Molly O'Day
109. Doris Kenyon
110. Nancy Carroll
112. Merna Kennedy
120. Reginald Denny
121. Sylvia Beecher
128. Wallace Beery
Black and White Set
1. John Miljan
3. Donald Reed
5. Conrad Nagel
6. Frances Hamilton
10. James Murray
11. Reginald Denny
12. David Rollins
13. Charles Farrell
14. William Powell
15. Johnny Hines
17. Charles Rogers
18. Irene Rich
19. Karl Dane
20. Nancy Carroll
22. Charlie Chaplin
27. Camilla Horn
31. Bebe Daniels
50. Greta Garbo
55. Doris Dawson
59. Joan Crawford
63. Esther Ralston
69. Milton Sills
70. Gwen Lee
71. Ken Maynard
77. Ruth Taylor
79. Kathryn Crawford
84. Mary Duncan
87. Molly O'Day
88. Larry Kent
89. John Barrymore
92. Dorothy Mackaill
94. Sally Phipps
96. W. C. Fields
98. Leila Hyams
102. James Hall
103. Norma Talmadge
104. Barry Norton
108. Lew Cody
113. Kathryn McGuire
114. Nancy Carroll
119. Rin-Tin-Tin
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