W.D. & H.O. Wills

Mining

Stock ID: YJx

Full set of 50 antique cigarette cards.

Size:	standard (10 per page).
Condition:	Good (#1 poor.)
Price:	£ 22.50
Year of issue:	1916
Category:	Science > Engineering

This series consists of the following subjects:

1. Asbestos — Quarry at Thetford, Canada
2. China Clay — Open-cast Mine, St. Austell, Cornwall
3. Coal — Mine Surveying
4. Coal — An Electric Coal-cutter
5. Coal — Miner Drilling for Blasting
6. Coal — A Miner “Holing”
7. Coal — An Electric Train
8. Coal — Taking Coal to Pit Mouth
9. Coal — The Bottom of the Shaft
10. Coal — Sorting and Cleaning Coal
11. Copper — Calcination of Copper Ore, Rio Tinto, Spain
12. Copper — Open-cast Mine, Rio Tinto, Spain
13. Diamonds — Kimberley Mines , 1880
14. Diamonds — Mine at Kimberley, South Africa
15. Diamonds — Premier Diamond Mine, South Africa
16. Diamonds — Washing and Concentrating Plant, South Africa
17. Diamonds — Searching Tables, Kimberley Mines
18. Gold — Mount Morgan Mine , Queensland
19. Gold — Descending a Mine, South Africa
20. Gold — compressed Air Drill, South Africa
21. Gold — Stamp Battery, South Africa
22. Gold — Cyanide Vats, South Africa
23. Gold — Panning at Klondyke
24. Gold — Dredging for Gold, North America
25. Iron — Open-cast Mine in the Urals, Russia
26. Iron — Iron ORe Mine, Grangesberg, Sweden
27. Iron — Steam Shovel at Work, USA
28. Iron — Unloading Iron Ore, USA
29. Marble — Cutting Marble in a Belgian Quarry
30. Marble — Channeling Machine at Work
31. Marble — Lowering Large Blocks, Carrara, Italy
32. Mica — Mine in Bengal, India
33. Oil — Oil Field at Baku, Russia
34. Oil — An Oil Field in the Sea, Southern California
35. Oil — Oil Field on Fire, Texas
36. Platinum — Raising Alluvial Gravel, Russia
37. Platinum — Washing Alluvial Gravel, Russia
38. Plumbago — Mine at Kurnegalle, Ceylon
39. Radium — Mining Pichblende, Cornwall
40. Rubies — Mine at Mogok, Burma
41. Rubies — Sorters at Work, Burma
42. Salt — Mining Rock Salt, Northwich, Cheshire
43. Salt — Mine at Northwich, Cheshire
44. Salt — Mine at Wieliczka, Galicia
45. Sapphires — Digging and Washing Sapphires, Queensland
46. Silver — Broken Hill Mines , NSW
47. Silver — Mechanical Feed, Broken Hill NSW
48. Tin — Mine at Camborne, Cornwall
49. Tin — Open-cast Mnie, Perak
50. Turquoises — Mines near Nishapur, Persia

Photo of the back of these Mining cigarette cards

Photo of the front of these Mining cigarette cards