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Description: Original Tobacco Card Set - Carreras Turf, Famous Film Stars. This set of 50 cards was issued in 1949. These Turf 'slides' were originally printed on part of the tobacco packet. The smoker would then cut the pictures out from the packets to make up the set as these original cards show (below).

Condition: Very Good.

PLEASE NOTE: Turf cards were part of the original tobacco packets and were cut out of the packet to make the card, hence the cards will not be exactly the same size.

Plus: If you're not familiar with tobacco cards they were issued as free insert with packets of cigarettes in the year stated above.Below is an image of the first few cards in this set, this set like all my others sets come in plastic storage pages as shown.

Subjects featured in this set are as follows: Charles Laughton, James Cagney, Jeanette Macdonald, Alan Ladd, Joan Crawford, Deanna Durbin, Lionel Barrymore, Danny Kaye, Robert Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, William Bendix, Errol Flynn, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, Katherine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, William Powell, Jane Wyman, Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Anton Walbrook, Greer Garson, Edward G Robinson, David Niven, Jack Hawkins, Christine Norden, Bing Crosby, Kieron Moore, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Paulette Goddard, Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Betty Hutton, Hector Ross, Robert Donat, Frank Sinatra, Glynis Johns, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly, Phyllis Calvert, Charles Boyer, Rhonda Fleming, Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Michael Denison, Gregory Peck & Bette Davis.

Description of Condition

POOR: Usually torn or creased cards, damage to picture or damage to reverse of card, damaged (rounded) corners also if card is very dirty.

FAIR: Showing signs of considerable handling, causing corner or edge damage or a card from one of the better categories listed below with one of the defects mentioned above.

GOOD: Showing a bit of age with only slight damage such as slightly damaged corners (not quite 'sharp' corners), slight discolouration (but not stained), but certainly not torn or creased.

VERY GOOD: Cards are clean on both front & back, with pretty good sharp corners, we do allow for slight signs of wear along the edges for example. looking nearly as good as the day they were printed.

EXCELLENT: I would class these as cards that have been handled but with a lot of care causing no visable damage.

MINT: Not a grading I like to use very often as how can you expect a collectable to be so old and in 'Mint' condition? Well it is if they look the same as the day they were printed. To be fair this does include cards with imperfections which were caused during the printing process which we have no control over such as off centre printing, slight colour imperfection, marks caused by faulty printing plates etc...

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