1929 Major Drapkin Limericks Set and Checklist

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Major Drapkin Limericks
Year	1929
Size	1 3/8″ x 2 1/2″
Images	Color
Type	Tobacco
Number in Set	50

1929 Major Drapkin Limericks Set Overview

1929 Sarony Saronicks Tennis.jpg This creative set featured limericks and humorous pictures. It included 50 cards and was issued by Major Drapkin & Company, a tobacco company in England that was a branch of the United Kingdom Tobacco Company. Cards were distributed inside packs of Major Drapkin 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 cards and checklist) was also issued by Sarony for their packages of cigarettes. The link is that, like Major Drapkin, Sarony was also a branch of the UK Tobacco Company. The Major Drapkin cards are narrower than the Sarony ones.