1929 Sarony Saronicks Set and Checklist

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Sarony Saronicks
Year	1929
Size
Images	Color
Type	Tobacco
Number in Set	50

1929 Sarony Saronicks Set Overview

1929 Sarony Saronicks Tennis.jpg 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

Note that this set (the same checklist/cards) was also distributed by Major Drapkin for their cigarettes packages. Those cards are called the Major Drapkin Limericks cards.