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
- Hosts
- Expert on Skis
- Small Boy
- Spinster
- Lady of Joppa
- Bear at Zoo
- Psyche
- Silent Man
- Lady of Flint
- Scott the Painter
- Man of Blackheath
- Woman of Churston
- Man of Belsize
- Man of the Nore
- Tommy and Colonel Beak
- Jew and Scotsman
- Bagdad (sp.) Lad
- War Office Man
- Tyne Man
- Dame of Dunbar
- Man of Calcutta
- Major
- Fellow of Tyre
- Bianca
- Wright
- Kueue Bus
- Absolute Lamb
- Seedsman of Leeds
- Man of Nantucket
- Willie and Perfume
- Lady of Crewe
- Batavia Barber
- Lady of Wilts
- Padua Nurse
- Lady of Settle
- Pelican
- Couple in Sydenham
- Vicar of Bray
- Man of Peru
- Jock from Dundee
- Fellow of Clewer
- Fellow of Bootle
- Lady of Diss
- Lady of Jarrow
- Tennis
- Fellow of Bristol
- Sandy M’Veetie
- Flute Tutor
- Young Fatty
- Not a Star
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