1929 Sarony Saronicks Set and Checklist

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Sarony Saronicks
Year	1929
Size	1 1/2″ x 2 5/8″
Images	Color
Type	Tobacco
Number in Set	50

1929 Sarony Saronicks Set Overview

This creative set featured limericks and humorous pictures. It included 50 cards and was issued by Nicolas Sarony & Company, a tobacco company in England that was a branch of the United Kingdom Tobacco Company. Cards were distributed inside packs of Sarony Cigarettes.

The pictures utilized color but only hints of it. The front had a cartoon image and the back was a clever limerick about the scene shown.

It is mostly a non-sports set but does include a tennis card (No. 45). The tennis card, as shown here, pictures a lovesick man reaching over the net for a woman during a game of tennis.

The tennis limerick, as an example, is as follows:

There was a young fellow of Ennis
Who was very effective at tennis
The way he said ‘love’
Made each turtle dove
Think the racquet more mighty than pen is

1929 Sarony Saronicks Set Checklist

1. Hosts
2. Expert on Skis
3. Small Boy
4. Spinster
5. Lady of Joppa
6. Bear at Zoo
7. Psyche
8. Silent Man
9. Lady of Flint
10. Scott the Painter
11. Man of Blackheath
12. Woman of Churston
13. Man of Belsize
14. Man of the Nore
15. Tommy and Colonel Beak
16. Jew and Scotsman
17. Bagdad (sp.) Lad
18. War Office Man
19. Tyne Man
20. Dame of Dunbar
21. Man of Calcutta
22. Major
23. Fellow of Tyre
24. Bianca
25. Wright
26. Kueue Bus
27. Absolute Lamb
28. Seedsman of Leeds
29. Man of Nantucket
30. Willie and Perfume
31. Lady of Crewe
32. Batavia Barber
33. Lady of Wilts
34. Padua Nurse
35. Lady of Settle
36. Pelican
37. Couple in Sydenham
38. Vicar of Bray
39. Man of Peru
40. Jock from Dundee
41. Fellow of Clewer
42. Fellow of Bootle
43. Lady of Diss
44. Lady of Jarrow
45. Tennis
46. Fellow of Bristol
47. Sandy M’Veetie
48. Flute Tutor
49. Young Fatty
50. Not a Star

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