1947-03-08 — Page 6

Bernard Wicksteed

HAS FUN FINDING OUT ABOUT CIGARETTE CARDS

OR a nostalgic half-hour I talked to a colonel about cigarette cards. This is not a subject on which most colonels would havo much to say, but this particular one, Colonel C. L. Bagnall, made his living out of them before the war and has begun to do it again now the war is over.

What he used to do was to buy cigarette cards by the hundredweight and make them up into the sets which he sold to the 70,000 collectors on his mailing list at anything from 9d. up.

Schoolboys will be gad to know the colonel has definite information that the big cigarette people intend to issue cards again as soon as the paper situation cases.

One firm in the West Country has already started with a series of pictures of old-time Brie- tol, and another set is coming out in New Zealand.

What has been happening in the cigarette card world since they disappeared from our pac kels in 1940? The colonel says that the best collectors-carto philes is the name have con- tinued with enthusinsm throughout the. darkest hours.

"Actress" set: £10 PRICES have gone up, of course, 1 but hundreds of thousands of cards still change hands every

year.

A set that used to cost 8d. now runs out at anything from 28.. 6d. to 5, and at a elgurette card auc- tion in London last November a sel

of the rare "Actresses" with the log cabin back fetched £10,

แ

It was found that the cards sup- posed to have been first lasued by the Americans were printed by method used exclusively in Eng land.

firm were a series of miniatures of The first cards brought out by one their own hoarding advertisements, and they are now worth £1 to 30%.

each,

The first set by another firm was on battleships. Anyone who has got this hidden away anywhere might get anything up to £10 for It, ac- cording to cordition.

Just os in stamp collecting, condi- tion county for a lot. Unless the nets are fairly rare, cards in poor condk- tion have little market value.

Any misprints?

Two proof sets of the Hie of Ed- CIGARETTE card collectors hunt

ward VII, which was never issued beer se he had abdicated before It was ready, went at 24 each,

The increased prices of newer issues are not due to varity so much as to the higher wages pald for Korting them into sets

Cigarette cards were first used as stiffeners in the packet and were plain. Then somebody got the idea of printing pictures on them.

In spite of much research carlo- hilists have never established just who this was. At one time the Americans were credited with the idea, but this theory has been ex- ploded by a discovery which must have shaken the elgarettes world.

card

for errors and misprints and then write to their journals about them. There is mentioned in the rent issue of The Cigarette Card

CUT-

News (not to be confused with The Cartophille World).

ū

The writer points out that In certain set a shallow-draught Malay vessel is called a pingojep on the front of the card and a penjajap on the back, and he asks if anyone has specimen with identical spelling

on both sides.

No one has every cigarette card- known, but several collectors have, more than a hundred thousand and all different. There is one man of 75 who has 180,000, and values the collection at more than £1,000.

MY RETREAT TO MOSCOW

44OING back to Moscow? I don't envy

"Gyou, aid the Old Friend, as we met

in Eton High-streel.

Quickly he became the Candid Friend by adding: "Frankly, I think you're crazy. Why not Ko somewhere pleasant like Washington? The Russian climate's beast- ly, the food's dull, fuel's short, no good books -are-being-written; and art is stagnant

except for the ballet.

"You'll be lonely because most Russians will be afraid to talk to you; the censorship is iniquitous; you'll get next to nothing into the paper, and even if you do it won't signify, because people are not in- terested in Russia any more."

Much of what he said is true and all of it is irrelevant.

One does not go to Moscow to have

o good time but do be at the centre

By

Alaric Jacob

collaborator, Henry Wallace, telling me of his crusade against his coun- Lry's foreign policy, which he con- siders

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Colonel Bagnall once paid £115 for four pots of Lloyd's "Peoples and their Flags." The reason paid so much was thal, so far as he knows, they are the only complete sets in existence.

Another rarily he has is a set of scenes of Maori life issued in New Zealand. There are only two other complete otts in the world.

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A firm that sold cigarettes to the natives in West Africa used to put little trinkets in the packets. The colonel has some of these, but one collects them seriously, he says, because they might equally

well have come out of a Christmas crac- ker.

Among collectors...

"I broke all me Noo Year resolutions first day. Done yours yet, sir?”

WILLIAM

HICKEY

Stop me and save one

S small boys will, a young- ster leaving a Birmingham school dodged under the footpath guard-rail and into the rond without looking.

Hnd Jack Hellberg been a less careful and experienced driver the

PART from schoolboys, what ind would have been killed. As it sort of people collect cigarette was he got there and then the smack- cards? Well, one of the biggest col-ing he deserved. lections was made by a town clerk The Incident set engineer Hellberg in Staffordshire. He had 4,000 Dering some simple device to complete sets. Then there is a vicar warn motorists not merely that they in Holloway, N., who has 500 sets.

are approaching a school, but that Queen Mary collects them and so do children are likely to be doing; the some of her ladies-in-awaiting.

He has a 4-year-old son

Not long ago an engine driver pro- duced a cigarette eard of himself In court and it was taken as evidence of good character.

grown-up and respectable.

So you see the whole thing is quite

same.

his own

Result is a portabl traffle sign red-lighted only at peal:

danger times, That is ten minutes or so be- fare schools open, after schools leave,

BY THE WAY

Beachcomber

by

AM still wondering what a button, and a light went on at the I

woman meant who, after side of the room illuminating a series looking at a picture in her paper wall. Every time he did this the man of small coloured slabs let into the of a whaling ship about to set of science earned a hundred guineas, out, said emphatically. "Now But not this time. "Does that sug- at last there will be more eggs Eest anything to you, madam?" he for the Welsh."

asked. "Only that you are mnd." replied the diva. And she rose and walked out, leaving her escort to settle for fifty pounds.

Oh, very well, then, Guineas,

Falling a reasonable explanation this reminds me of Commander To wer's remark, when told that the trade in worn-out horses for Bel-

glum was still going on. "The Bel. gians don't hunt enough," said Com- m:under Tower.

Frightfully decent show

Are you intelligent?·

1. What is the difference between Mabel and Monet?

2. Shefeld Cathedral 1s (a)

THE Arst grandmother to become Byzantine. (b). Romanesque.

billiard-marker is so small

that she cannot reach the marking- board. This was only discovered when, at the end of her first session, no scores at all were marked up. "Never mind," said an official, "the is blazing the trail for those taller ones who will come after her."

Rustiguzzi walks out

patopsychiatrist recommended

1 pseudophysiopsychologist, and

a tragic mistake. Were Rustiguzzi, accompanied by Agricola ever to receive a signed photo K. Hunchmeyer jun., found herself graph of Stalin I should be ex-In a large consulting room. where

Behind ceedingly surprised; while a note from a Soviet statesman telling me hey dissatisfied he was with So- viet foreign polley would make me suspect a pravileni joke,

of great events. Of the two places. Washington and Moscow, things will shortly happen that will affect the lives of every one of us in Britain, Moscow, I think, is the more crucial. precisely because it is the more difficult.

MARCH 10 To represent the biggest newspaper in Britain in the most important capital on the Continent is no mean task, even though it is often stil and up one.

I doubt if Moscow will ever be come so pleasant a cily as Washing- even if Russia in Lime comes to

to

al the United States in wealth

and power.

BETTER LIFE

It is a task to undertake with con- BUT you are a foreign correspon-

fidence because the newspaper's polley toward Russia is saund and 124

polley of quiet friendship, without recrimination.

You

helm

I do not read in its pages Stock- travellers tales about Stalin's

dent you go where the news is, and that is frequently where the pleasant entes and the charming people are not.

street for my old bright home on I would not exchange grey Gorky-

imminent disintegration or Istanbul Connecticut-avenue, nor the meat bagmen's romances about cannibalism balls in Moscow's Metropole for the in the Ukraine.

ricalts the Mayflower Hotel. For

On March 10 Moscow stages the where the road is hardest, there pro- most important conference since Ver. Ertas is sweetest.

is tu

GREAT LOSS

The struggle of the Russian people

sailles. The fate of Germany-which for a better life, leading to a better

to say the fate of Europe will there, be decided for generations to understanding between stricken Rus- came. Hundreds of journalists wil sin, with her 7,000,000 dead, and war attempt to descend on Moscow's Wrecked Britain, is for me a more absorbing interest tlin all the utterly inadequate hotels. Only a handful will get in.

steaks, eggs and nylons which * rationed Imagination can concalve.

'In Russia now the great contest of our time is developing the con- TUIE. best bruins in Britain, should test between the Soviet system and have gone to Russia to tell us, liberal Capitalism, which I do not of the astonishing things bad, at believe avit be settled by fighting. wen 'n good-that were going on there. That this did not happen was a great loss to us-perhaps an even greater misfortune for the Soviet poople.

Having spent much of my news- paper life in the two nations, with whose destiny ours is now it rlostly linked five years

but, slowly, by Letal and example.

We shall see Russia and Amerlen locked in competition for the poll- tieni allegiance of mankind.

WORLD STAGE Russia, hopes to triumph she must maite her system work dar more effectively than it does to-day. Washington dhd three la Moscow Conversely, the American way" has

iD

I could distil the essential difference a long road to travel before it shakes

between them into one paragraph,

thus-

the faith of millions in the Soviet Ɛanswer to He,

On this deak, as I write, is the It is going to be a tremendous

portrait of Franklin Roosevelt' spectarie this Intellectual

3. "Hudibras" was written by (a) Samuel Johnson, (i) Ben Jonson, (e) Tom Johnson,

4. The glow-worm 19 (a) a worm, (b) a beetle, (c) a stom- inold."

5. Are sunflower-seeds fatal to feld-mice?

0. Flozzi was (a) a singer, (3) a violinist, (e) the designer of Cov- ent Garden Opera House,

7. "Jerusalum Liberated" written by (a) Tusseand (b) Hbe- ker. 8.

Was

What relation was Grinding

a desk, sat a little bird of a man, with Gibbons to the famous author of small, restless eyes, and an evident "The Decline and Fall of the Roman desire to hop about. He pressed à Empire"?

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The sign was made in a day and cost 31 d. Try-out carned praise of police and parents. GOING to the Mansion House als morning to receive the King's Police Medal for meritorious service CHARLES HAYWARD. 50- year-old chief of City of London de-

was

tectives.

Merit includes solving the Ave superintendent in 1937 und bis suc- murders in the City since he became cess in inuzzling sharepustiers.

Like previous C. 1. D. chiefs, Hay ward lives on the job in a flat above the police station. He was at Cloak lune station when it was biltzed in March 1941, he and his wife being seriously hurt and their 18-year-old daughter killed,

From the Aberdeen Weekly Jour- nal:-

Eating out in Aberdeen restaurants is going to cost more soon, and tip- phy is to be discouraged.

themselves responsible for waiters' wages and the like. Even with large Avhiskies and sodas at da. Ed. n go, one of London's best was £40 down

in wages alone over Christmas, and

there is a revival yet.

Foreboding is that the nationalised resolutions made for us by Mr. HUGH DALTON will break leas eastly than our own.

on Statutory Rules and Orders after wrest- ling with the complexities beloved

that hostilities have ceased, Depart of Whitehall, reports with feeling:

"Your

Committee

tee, hope that now ments may find themselves able po to frame any order made under Do- fence Regulations

SELECT Committee

that it will be self-contained-In other words to be content with the grandchildren of the Statute and not to bring its great-grandchildren or great-great-

randchildren upon the scene."

We know,

RIME of cating illegal bread EASONAL tendency to peace, re-

alleged at Lord Mayor of Ports- trenchment and reform deepens

mouth'a banquet for Montgomery the current misanthrope of London'a was avoided by member of City more expensive barmen, but wrings sir JOHN CUNNINGHAM,

Livery Club at luncheon to Admiral crocodile tears from

me.

their own account, pay the hotels on paper packet, produced half slice of

They are mostly In bushiess on agreed percentage of profits but are own bread to cat with soup.

He gravely unwrapped white

Make sure-

You have a

Pleasure in Store!

CONQUEST OF PAIN

By A Medical Correspondent

I WONDER

how many

people realise that 1946 was the centenary year of tho birth of anacathetics.

Lot us consider the develop ment of this, the greatest boon to suffering humanity.

Degin with Pepys Diary and just think what must have been the physical pain of being "cut for the stone" without any anaesthetle!

One does not know which to nd- mire most-he fortitude of our an- cestora or the skill of the operators who themselves dirty and with un- sterilised

Instrumento-operated at such speed that quite a fair propor- Lion of their patients recovered.

Again, imagine a battlefeld of other day-the fate of the wounded and the amputations done in record time, but without anacathesla.

The wonder is that any one sur- vived the combined stresses of slock and sepsis. And yet, ni we know, agront many did..

Peoplo encorod

In 1840 an American dentist began to put his patients to sleep with ether. Chloroform was added at a later date.

Like many new discoveries, it was at first sneered at and decried. But, though unanfe through unknown dosage, its benefits were so enormous that it survived.

When Queen Victoria had one of her later children under chloroform it became really popular. Little fur- ther progress was made for many years.

in the last decade, however, big strides have been made in, the selence of anaesthetics,

The discovery of avertin, given as an encina, followed by the intra- venous anesthetics, tinu revolu- tlonised the art, and the sufferings of patients, both pre- and post- operatively, have diminished enor mously.

No longer are we slided with. masks, passing out into unconscious- ness with our hearts pounding, como round vomiting and with a violent headache.

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Haunted in dreams No longer do frightened children have to be carried, terrified, to an operating thentre to see white-robed, musked forms which later haunt them in their dreams.

No, you pass out in your bed with a litle pricing poln in the arm, to wake up with most of the paycholo gical stress and a great deal of the physical suffering avoided.

Truly we should be grateful

to the anaesthetists, now a highly specialised profession. No branch of medicine has made such strides, and they should rank equally with they the surgeons whose ellortz make so much more easy.

The latest method, which may well be developed has been produced by two medical students in Australia, whereby complete ansesthesia is in-

and the results are being carefully duced by means of an electrical cur- rent. This method is in its infancy,

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