Images Dated 2011 November

No Name Tobacco with an unparalleled reputation, 1964

Player's No Name Tobacco counter-card featuring a black and white photographic image of a gentleman from the waist up, leaning against a table holding a pipe to his mouth. In the background there is a portrait of a gentleman hanging on the wall. The table the man is leaning on has on it a sculpture of what appears to be a horse and a vase of flowers. The man is wearing an evening jacket with a shirt and tie. He is looking towards the top left of the counter-card. The bottom section of the counter-card features an illustration of a tin of Player's No Name Tobacco on a burgundy background. Text reads: "'No Name'? // Tobacco with an unparalleled reputation". Hand-written on reverse: "APPROX. 1964 // 20452 // 9 1/2 X 15". There is also a stand on the reverse

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Players means Quality, 1960

Player's Navy Cut Tobacco and Cigarettes counter-card featuring a colour illustration of a man from the chest up smoking a pipe. The man appears to be on a ship as rigging is visible and there are other ships in the distance. The man is wearing a white jumper with a red crevat. To the bottom right of the card there is an illustration of a tin of Players Medium Navy Cut Tobacco and a tin of Navy Cut Cigarettes. Text reads: "PLAYER'S // means QUALITY", "IN AIRTIGHT TINS // Unfailingly // fresh", "PLAYER'S MEDIUM NAVY CUT TOBACCO & CIGARETTES". Handwritten on the reverse: "1960 // I.T.C. 18358 // 11 7/8 x 16". There is a stand on the reverse

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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

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