It seems quite incongruent, the combination of cigarettes and flowers, apart from the obvious exception of nicotiana. I love collecting vintage flower and gardening cigarette cards. This combines my passion for flowers, vintage and anything miniature. I love the anatomically correct flower pictures, the information included on the back of the cards and how they are so of their time. So today I thought I would share a few pictures from my collection of cards and include freshly picked and some dried flowers from the cutting garden.
Here are just a few
Wills cigarette cards measuring 6cm x 8cm.
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| Beautiful Viscaria card. I normally grow Linum in my garden but this year Viscaria has been much more reliable. | | | | |
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| Who let the cat in? |
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| Gorgeous dried Larkspur. |
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| Advice from the past still relevant today... hmm, "Keep a watch for slugs among seedlings", have I ever this year! | | | | | | |
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Here are some tiny Godfrey Phillips Ltd, Flower Studies cards, they measure 5cm x 6cm.
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| You can almost hear the BBC RP voice reading this. |
Now for the cards that really are of their time. Wills Garden Hints cards and only very smartly dressed gents were featured in these cards. I could do with a few of these gents to help out in my garden! Fabulous dress sense and not too afraid of hard work.
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| Always ensure you wear your smartest hat and apron when constructing a dovecote. |
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| Looks a little like chemical warfare. |
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| Mind those brogues now! |
My absolute gems: hand coloured Camera Studies from Cavanders Ltd.
Born and bred in Kent this one has to be my favourite, all the more for it's slightly off target hand colouring.
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| A little bit of Chaucer, which I believe translates, "Among the buds I choose one so fair". |
These are fabulous. What a fine collection you have! Love the kitty feet passing by or in first position in ballet. My dad collected Kent items, too, as that was his name. :-)
ReplyDeleteIan remarked, "My particular favourite was the cat paw picture. I found it reminiscent in style to the 'Mind those Brogues' cigarette card."
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