This is carrying on a series I did ages about of #EverydayAntiques. It was items that we have inherited that are old and interesting. I have a bag of cards that my wife's grandparents collected that I will show you.
Some of the previous posts have lost their pictures, but I did feature some Kensitas Silks before. These were woven pictures of flowers that were given away in packs of cigarettes in the 1930s. There was also a series with flags. The bigger cards came in bigger packs and there were some postcard sized ones too, but we do not have any of those.
From what I have seen they are not worth a huge amount. I guess a lot of people kept them as they are nice things. I have thought about getting them mounted in frames.
These flowers are from another cigarette company and may be from the 1920s. There were fifty in the set, but we do not have them all. You could have bought an album for a penny from your tobacconist.
The Brooke Bond tea Police File set is much later from the 1970s.We only have three of these. A full set is selling on ebay for a few pounds.
These are from Godfrey Phillips cigarettes who did royal jubilee cards in 1935. We have the Prince of Wales, The Queen, Prncess Alexandra and Princess Margaret Rose (current Queen's sister).
The British Costume card showing 'Day Clothes 1938' is also from Brooke Bond tea and may be from 1968. Loads of full sets in albums on ebay for a couple of pounds. The other is from a 1964 set by Primrose Confectionary based on the Z-Cars TV police show. I remember watching it as a kid a few years later.
The whole lot is not worth a great deal, so we may as well keep them. It is just nice to have links to the past and our kids can have them some day.
As a kid I had some other sets including one about the space race. You can buy those cheap too as so many people collected them with their tea bags.
