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The Wills' 1928 cricketers was a set of trading cards issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. under its W.D. & H.O. Wills brand. It consisted of a series of 50 collectable cigarette cards to commemorate leading first-class cricketers who had played county cricket in the 1927 English cricket season; and including nine who had toured South Africa in 1927–28 with the Marylebone Cricket Club team.
The T201 designation comes from the American Card Catalogue, an authoritative guide to trading cards issued prior to 1951. (In other words, before the Topps company began to dominate the industry). [citation needed] The set consisted of a total of 50 cards measuring 2 + 3 ⁄ 16 by 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (5.6 cm × 12.1 cm).
Doral, an R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brand, started printing cigarette cards in the year 2000. These were the first cigarette cards from a major manufacturer since the 1940s, [7] although the small company Carreras in the UK issued cigarette cards with Turf brand cigarettes for a short period in the 1950s and 1960s, Black Cat brand in 1976.
The constitutionality of both this act and the Food and Drug Administration's new graphic cigarette warning labels are being questioned under cigarette companies' first amendment rights. [67] Eventually, the law is planned to require almost all tobacco advertisements to consist of black text on a white background, but the constitutionality of ...
The American Card Catalog number for these cards is T87. [1] Back in 1940 Brown & Williamson sponsored a radio program called "Wings of Destiny". These cards were originally issued with their tobacco products in conjunction with the show. They were collected with albums, and usually were glued, or stapled to them, damaging the cards.
John Player & Sons, most often known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England. In 1901 the company merged with twelve other companies to become a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland. [2] The company pioneered the advertising with trading (cigarette) cards.
Tareyton began as a variation of Herbert Tareyton cork-tipped non-filter cigarettes (whose slogan was, "There's something about them you'll like"). [5] As filters gained in popularity in the late 1950s, Tareyton was created in 1954 as the filtered version of Herbert Tareyton, minus the cork tip.
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