W.D. & H.O. Wills

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Full set of 50 antique cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 1. What “A1 at Lloyd’s” means?
• 2. How an Acetylene Lamp Works?
• 3. Why some Animals Hibernate?
• 4. The meaning of the Barber’s Pole?
• 5. Why Bees Sting and why they Hum?
• 6. Why Belfry Windows have Sloping Boards?
• 7. Why Birds’ Beaks Vary in Shape?
• 8. Why Birds’ Eggs Vary in Colour and Shape?
• 9. What cuases the Blue Sky?
• 10. A Butterfly from a Moth?
• 11. Why Coachmen and Grooms wear Cockades?
• 12. Why Chemists have large bottles of Coloured Liquid in their Windows?
• 13. How Crickets and Grasshoppers Chirp?
• 14. Why we have Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns?
• 15. The origin of Epaulettes?
• 16. Why our Eyes deceive us? Our eyes ...
• 17. Why our Eyes deceive us? Owing to ...
• 18. That some Fishes Walk on Land?
• 19. What the Letters on a Fishing Boat mean?
• 20. Why a Flag is Flown at Half-mast?
• 21. Why the Glow-worm Glows?
• 22. The meaning of Hall-Marks on Silver?
• 23. Why a Horse-shoe is used for Luck?
• 24. What causes Knots and Grain in Wood?
• 25. Why Leaves Change Colour and Fall?
• 26. What causes Lightning?
• 27. How a Limpet Clings to a Rock?
• 28. What causes a Mirage?
• 29. The meaning of Motor Signs?
• 30. How our National Flag was Formed?
• 31. What causes Oak-apples?
• 32. The meaning of a Pawnbroker’s Sign?
• 33. How Pearls are Formed?
• 34. What the Plimsoll Mark means?
• 35. How to find the Pole-star?
• 36. What causes the Rainbow?
• 37. What the Royal Standard is?
• 38. Why Sailors wear Collars?
• 39. Why the Salmon Leaps?
• 40. How the Sargasso Sea was Formed?
• 41. Why we Shake Hands?
• 42. What Shooting Stars are?
• 43. Why a Scotsman wears a Sporran?
• 44. Why the Stoat Changes Colour in Winter?
• 45. What causes the Colours of the Sunset?
• 46. A Toadstool from a Mushroom?
• 47. What causes a Waterspout?
• 48. The origin of the Wedding Ring?
• 49. The origin of Wigs and Gowns?
• 50. The Story of the Willow-pattern Plate?