Harry Fecitt

An album page showing part of a set of 50 medium-sized silks issued by Godfrey Phillips Ltd in 1920 and titled Orders of Chivalry.

Expect to pay over 100 pounds sterling for the full set, but dealers often sell silks cheaply because the collecting public prefers cards.

Attack on a laager

United Tobacco Companies (South) Ltd (S. Africa) issued many interesting large or medium sized cards.

This set of 200 large cards is titled Our South Africa Past and Present and was distributed in 1938.

Here's an enlargement. (Photographed through the glass in the frame.)

If you are interested in military animals then please look at the cigarette card that I am posting today in my other thread.

A card from a large set

This is one of 111 cards issued by Gallaher Ltd in 1901 titled The South African Series

Expect to pay five to six pounds sterling for a good card.

Colonel Kekewich, CO of the 1st Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, successfully commanded the garrison at Kimberley in a 126-day siege during the South African War.

He became a Major General commanding the 13th (Western Division) but on 5th November 1914, due apparently to a nervous breakdown, he tragically took his own life.

Some popular sets of cigarette cards have been reproduced for the collectors' market.

W.D. & H.O. Wills Ltd issued the original set of 50 cards titled Military Motors in 1916.

An original set is likely to cost you over 80 pounds sterling, but a reproduction set sells for six or seven pounds.

From Wills' Scissors set of 30 cards titled Heroic Deeds issued in 1913.

Expect to pay four pounds or more in sterling for a VG card.

The text on the rear reads:

Lieutenant Parsons RA and men of the 60th Rifles manning a field gun at the Ingogo River after all the gunners had been shot down (Boer War 1881).

At the Ingogo River, February 8th 1881, every officer, gunner and horse of the RA, with the exception of Lieut. Parsons, who was wounded later, was shot down. For an hour the gun was silenced, then a party of the 60th Rifles began to work it, and kept it in action throughout the day, but with heavy loss.