There are 6 cards in this lot, all from the Wills's Cigarettes Coronation Series. Included in this set are:
#28 Coronation of George III
#29 Queen Caroline refused admittance to the Abbey
#30 The Fealty at the Coronation of George IV
#33 Proclaiming the date of Coronation, 1901
#34 Coronation of Edward VII, 1902
#35 Proclaiming the Accession of George V
Each card is printed on heavy cardstock, measures approximately 2.6" x 1.6" (6.6 cm x 4.06 cm) & is in excellent condition. The front of each card has an image related to the coronation of a monarch, with historical information on the back. Anyone interested in history or royalty would love these cards. Scrapbookers, collage & multi-media artists will be attracted to the artwork on each card.
NOTE: this item will be shipped from France, so please allow up to 2 weeks to arrive at addresses outside France though it generally arrives sooner.
If you are not familiar with cigarette cards, here's some background information from Wikipedia:
"Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the US-based Allen and Ginter tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards.[2] Other tobacco companies such as Goodwin & Co. soon followed suit. They first emerged in the US, then the UK, then, eventually, in many other countries.
In the UK, W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1887 were one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was John Player & Sons in 1893 that produced one of the first general interest sets ‘Castles and Abbeys’. Thomas Ogden soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set ‘Ships and Sailors’, followed by ‘Cricketers' in 1896. In 1906, Ogden’s produced a set of football cards depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.
Each set of cards typically consisted of 25 or 50 related subjects, but series of over 100 cards per issue are known. Popular themes were 'beauties' (famous actresses, film stars and models), sporters (in the US mainly baseball, in the rest of the world mainly football and cricket), nature, military heroes and uniforms, heraldry[3] and city views.
Today, for example, sports and military historians study these cards for details on uniform design."