1938 Senior Service Our Countryside Set and Checklist
‘It’s In The Details’
Title | Senior Service Our Countryside |
Year | 1938 |
Size | 1 15/16″ x 2 15/16″ |
Images | Black and White |
Type | Tobacco |
Number in Set |
48 |
1938 Senior Service Our Countryside Overview
This set was similar to many others produced in the 1930s from UK tobacco companies. These cards were produced for Senior Service cigarettes packages.
If the layout is familiar to you, that is unsurprising. Countless sets from the UK had a similar design with the white borders on the front and the same font/type of the title. Fronts included a black and white image of a particular location and the backs offered a description of it. Backs of the cards offer a description of the location shown and include a card number, the repeated title, and the Senior Service Cigarettes brand name.
Most of the cards are not related to sports. But one golf card in the set is known as shown here.
The golf card is titled, “Golf in the Highlands.’ It features an unnamed group of golfers with one following through on his swing. The back of the card gives a description of the golf scene:
“Despite the inclement weather conditions in the Highlands, every golfer will doubtless envy the members of the golf club Pitlochry, for few can boast of such a magnificent natural course, surrounded by silver fir and larch trees, against a background of mist-capped mountains. Pitlochry, besides being a somewhat sophisticated inland resort, has a further distinction as it is supposed to be the “centre” of Scotland – a claim that will always remain in friendly dispute amongst Scotsmen.”
Of note is that, similar to other real photograph cards using this layout, these are often found with the ends curled upward.
1938 Senior Service Our Countryside Checklist
- The Crown of the Year
- Gathering Narcissi
- A West Country Gem
- Thameside Reverie
- Shepherd and Flock
- Market Day
- The Village Smithy
- Carting Winter Feed
- Heavy Going
- The Thatcher
- Freshwater Bay
- Cutting Chestnuts
- The Sussex Weald
- Noonday Rest
- Lakeside Idyll
- The Village School
- Winter Days
- Autumn Leaves
- Saturday Afternoon
- A Kentish Village
- Haymaking
- Henley Royal Regatta
- The Old Shepherd
- Beagling in Wales
- Spring at Ashridge
- In the Cotswolds
- Milton Abbas
- On the Cherwell
- An Hour from London
- Home from the Fields
- Storing Roots
- A Downland Farm
- A Country Lane
- Village Bowling Green
- In Lakeland
- The Charcoal Burner
- Golf in the Highlands
- Anglers’ Idyll
- Daffodil Harvest
- The Meet
- The Grand Union Canal
- King Winter
- Runnymede
- Herefordshire Hopfield
- Hikers Paradise
- The Thames Barge
- A Tudor Dove-Cote
- A Devon Lane
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