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Title	Cavenders Homeland Series
Year	1924
Size	1 3/8″ x 2 1/2″ and 1 15/16″ x 2 15/16″
Images	Black and White / Color
Type	Tobacco
Number in Set	54

1924 Cavenders Homeland Series Overview

This is a set from the UK that features pictures of various events in England. It is similar to the later Homeland Events cards printed in 1927 and later, 1932, packaged with Wills and Lambert & Butler products.

In all, there are actually several different Cavenders Homeland Series sets. There are two different sizes – one is a smaller card and one is larger measuring nearly 2″ x 3″. In addition, some are real black and white photos while others are colorized pictures of the same image. As if that wasn’t enough, Cavenders issued these with more than one product brand. For example, some backs are found with only the Cavenders name and others are found with other brand names, such as Army Club Cigarettes.

Like the Homeland Events sets, the Cavenders issues also include 54 cards and utilize the same type of design. Real images were used and backs included the Cavanders name, the maker of this issue. Cavanders was a London and Glasgow tobacco company established in 1775, as indicated on the cards.

Similar to the Homeland Events sets, most of these cards are non-sports cards. However, a handful of sports issues are featured as there is one card for tennis and golf, as well as a few others, such as soccer.

One distinctive feature of this series is that, instead of a description on the back of the sport or event, a brief poem or song snippet is printed instead.

1924 Cavenders Homeland Series Checklist

1. A Sussex Shepherd and Flock
2. Winter on the Frays, near Uxbridge
3. Steeping Stones at Hardcastle
4. Steelechasing
5. Fishers Unloading at Brixham
6. A Harvesting Idyll in Hampshire
7. An Evening Row in the Lake District
8. The Best Sport of the Day
9. On the Bronds in Norfolk
10. The Mill, Jesmond / Dene, Newcastle
11. Golf
12. In the Portsmouth Roads
13. In an Essex Wheat Field
14. The Waterfalls, Hebden Bridge, Hardcastle
15. Coaching Days
16. Sweet Emblems of England
17. The Cottage Homes of England
18. Seashore Rocks on the Northeast Coast
19. Football (Soccer)
20. Winter on a Thames Backwater
21. Still Life
22. At Watersmeet, Lynmouth
23. A Type of English Beauty
24. A Highland Family
25. A Hunting Morning
26. On the Norfolk Broads
27. Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire
28. Harvesting in the Isle of Arran
29. Cricket
30. An Evening Scene in Sussex
31. A Hunting We Will Go
32. A Wayside Corner in Kent
33. Highland Cattle Changing Pastures
34. Hockey (Field Hockey)
35. Sunshine in the Lake District
36. Emblems of England
37. A Cheshire Lane Under Snow
38. The Halfway House
39. In the West Highlands
40. Old Houses in Chilham, Kent
41. A West County Lane
42. The Favourite Meet
43. Looking Across Ullswater
44. Autumn Fruits
45. Tennis
46. Mid Winter in a Surrey Lane
47. On the Trossachs
48. Out on the Open Road
49. The Quiet Shores of Devon
50. A Fine Finish

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