Tobacco Gallery

Navy Cut Tobacco and Cigarettes, 1923=24

Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes and Tobacco rectangular counter card featuring an aerial photograph of the Player's factory in Radford. There is a small white label in the top right hand corner which reads "CAT59" and a hand-written note which reads "1925". The text on the card reads "SMOKE // PLAYER'S NAVY CUT // Tobacco & Cigarettes // The above picture is // AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF PLAYER'S TOBACCO FACTORY, NOTTINGHAM, WHERE MORE THAN 4, 500 PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYED." On the reverse is the remnants of a support. There is a hand-written note which reads "C128" and a label which reads "MARDONS // WINDOW NOVELTIES // EMBOSSED SHOWCARDS / &C, &C // VARNISHERS // GELATINERS & FRAME MAKERS // BRISTOL & LONDON."

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Navy Cut Medium cigarettes, 1924

Player's Navy Cut Medium cigarettes in three, tiered sections. The back section is the tallest and comprises packs of cigarettes and a box of cigarettes which has the Castle trade mark as well as the sailor in a life-buoy trade mark. The mid-section is similarly compose of packs of cigarettes and a box of cigarettes with the Castle trade mark as well as the sailor in a life-buoy trade mark. Above the box is a banner with the text "PLAYER'S". The front section, which is the lowest displays packs of cigarettes, One is open and two others have collecting cards protruding. The three sections are connected by a foot, the left and right sides of which have broken off and the back section has become detached. On the reverse is a hand-written note which reads "C117" and there is a printed note which reads "TO DISPLAY // HOLD BY TOP AND // PRESS DOWN ON TO // COUNTER // N.B. // if this display is // required to be closed // bring two struts into // centre first."

© Produced by the kind permission of Imperial Tobacco Limited, England

Players Bachelor Tipped., 1960

Player's Bachelor Tipped Cigarettes counter-card featuring a black and white photographic image of a man from the chest up lighting a cigarette in his mouth. The background of the image is a countryside scene with five people stood near two gliders whilst watching another coming in to land. In the bottom left of the counter-card is an illustration of an open packet of twenty Player's Bachelor Tipped Cigarettes with several of the cigarettes half pulled out. The text on the card is in pale blue, dark blue, white and gold. The text at the top of the card reads: "Player's // BACHELOR // Tipped". Text to the bottom right of the card reads: "Bachelor beat // flavour-blur'". Text with packaging illustration reads: "TWENTY for 3'6 // TEN for 1'9". Hand-written on reverse: "1960 // 19584". There is a stand on the reverse

© Produced by the kind permission of Imperial Tobacco Limited, England