John Player & Sons

Players Past & Present

Stock ID: bzM

Full set of 25 antique cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. Sir Henry Irving as “Mephistopheles” in “Faust.”
• 2. Sir Squire Bancroft as “Captain Hawtree” in “Caste.”
• 3. Mr. J. L. Toole in “Walker, London.”
• 4. Sir George Alexander as “Rupert of Hentzau” in “The Prisoner of Zenda.”
• 5. Lady Bancroft as “Peg Woffington” in “Masks and Faces.”
• 6. Sir Herbert Tree as “Svengali” in “Trilby.”
• 7. Sir J. Forbes-Robertson as “Mark Embury” in “Mice and Men.”
• 8. Sir Charles Wyndham as “Davy Garrick.”
• 9. Cyril Maude as “Captain Barley” in “Beauty and the Barge.”
• 10. Miss Gertrude Elliott as “Peggy” in “Mice and Men.”
• 11. W.S. Penley as “Rev. Robert Spalding” in “The Private Secretary.”
• 12. Sir John Hare as “Benjamin Goldfinch” in “A Pair of Spectacles.”
• 13. Miss Winifred Emery as “Miss Elizabeth Linley” in “Dick Sheridan.”
• 14. Miss Julia Neilson as “Nell Gwynne” in “Sweet Nell of Old Drury.”
• 15. Miss Gladys Cooper as “Anne” in “My Lady’s Dress.”
• 16. Rutland Barrington as “Pooh-Bah” in “The Mikado.”
• 17. Henry Ainley as “Ham Carve” in “The Great Adventure.”
• 18. Dennis Eadie in “Disraeli.”
• 19. Miss Ellen Terry as “Marguerite” in “Faust.”
• 20. Gerald du Maurier in “Raffles.”
• 21. Coquelin in “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
• 22. Martin Harvey as “Sidney Carton” in “The Only Way.”
• 23. Fred Terry as “Charles II.” in “Sweet Nell of Old Drury.”
• 24. Lewis Waller in “Monsieur Beaucaire.”
• 25. Mrs. Kendal as “Mistress Ford” in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”