Animalloys

I'm not much of a fan of modern mini cards but I do collect tobacco cards from time to time.  Here's one of my favorite sets, 1934 W.D. & H.O. Wills Animalloys.

Some examples:

This is the complete set in pages:

Play with the cards:

http://reeddesign.co.uk/animalloys/animalloys.html

Card of the Day -- 1911 Helmar Historic Homes

Here's the latest addition to my wondrous binder of tobacco cards.  I've been coveting these 1911 T69's for a long time.  This is my first but hopefully not last.

This looks to be the source material for the card.  The unknown artist changed the time of year from what looks like spring to winter and added the old lady passing by.

Here's a first edition of Hawthorne's novel.  It was sold by Bauman Rare Books.  If you watch Pawn Stars you're familiar with them.

A Striking Goat

This is the newest addition to to my tobacco card collection.  It's from the N87, 1889 Duke's Shadows series.   

Just for fun here are the standings for the 1889 major league baseball season.

Major league baseball final standings

National League final standings

v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
New York Giants	83	43	0.659	—	47–15	36–28
Boston Beaneaters	83	45	0.648	1	48–17	35–28
Chicago White Stockings	67	65	0.508	19	37–30	30–35
Philadelphia Quakers	63	64	0.496	20½	43–24	20–40
Pittsburg Alleghenys	61	71	0.462	25	40–28	21–43
Cleveland Spiders	61	72	0.459	25½	33–35	28–37
Indianapolis Hoosiers	59	75	0.440	28	32–36	27–39
Washington Nationals	41	83	0.331	41	24–29	17–54

American Association final standings

American Association	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Brooklyn Bridegrooms	93	44	0.679	—	50–19	43–25
St. Louis Browns	90	45	0.667	2	51–18	39–27
Philadelphia Athletics	75	58	0.564	16	46–22	29–36
Cincinnati Red Stockings	76	63	0.547	18	47–26	29–37
Baltimore Orioles	70	65	0.519	22	40–24	30–41
Columbus Solons	60	78	0.435	33½	36–33	24–45
Kansas City Cowboys	55	82	0.401	38	35–35	20–47
Louisville Colonels	27	111	0.196	66½	18–46	9–65

Tobacco Card Tuesday -- Ewe Might Like It

I'm not really a fan of contrived animal pictures and some of the others in this 1935 set are kinda weird but this one was just too cute to pass up.  If you're familiar with 1948 Bowman's (think Musial rookie) this card is just about the same size

More 1930's Foreign Weapons

In January I posted one card from this set, here.  I'll never collect all 300 but I did add five more.

Tobacco Card Tuesday -- Picturesque Bridges

Issued by John Player and Sons in 1929 these eleven cards were part of a series of twenty-five.  I thought it would be fun to see if I could find a photograph to go with each one.