This scarce card and is one in a series of 50 cards issued
in Canada by the IMPERIAL
Tobacco Company of Canada. One
card was inserted with their packs
of Cigarettes during 1925. The Series
is entitled “How To Play Golf” and
is listed in Burdicks American Card Catalogue
as series C17. Each
card depicts a photo image of a Golf Personality of the time depicting an
instructional lesson on an aspect of the game.
The back features a lesson
relating to the image on the front with other instructional pointers about the game. The particular one is #11 from the series and
Features the Golfer Arthur G Havers on the front. Here
is some information about Mr Havers that I found on the internet: Arthur Havers (born 1898 in Norwich) was an English golfer who won the
1923 Open Championship at Royal Troon (Beating the American Walter Hagen by one
stroke). He had first qualified for
the Open in 1914 at the age of sixteen. He played
in the Ryder Cup in 1927, 1931 and 1933. The card
measures 2 5/8 inches by 1 ½ inches approximately. The card does have some corner & edge wear, but is free from major creases. I have scanned the cards
front and back fairly large for you to be able to judge condition for
yourself. THESE CARDS WERE NEVER ISSUED IN THE
U.S.A. and are scarce. Due to the lower population in Canada than in
the US, print runs in Canada were much
smaller compared with American
Cards. (Because of this the majority of all Canadian non sports cards are far
scarcer than card issued in the USA.) I will be trying
to list several EARLY TRADE & TYPE CARDS over the next few days (spread across
different categories), including
one or two that are unrecorded in any guide, that were put given away with
Tobacco, Caramel, Candy, Gum, Chocolate, Bread Coffee Tea Cereal and other
products, covering such diverse subjects as Native American Indians , Baseball
, Football, Boy Scouts, Ice Hockey, Golf, Presidents of the United States, NCAA
and IVY League Colleges and Universities and Circus themes. To view the
other cards I have up on ebay please click on the “View Sellers other
Items” Icon located on this page. It will take you directly to them.