Country of Issue: France
Year of Issue: 1950s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size:
Issued as insert with what product: Crackers
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Issuing Company: Albatros Country of Issue: France Year of Issue: 1950s Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: Card Size: Issued as insert with what product: Crackers |
Notes: Checklist incomplete. Unnumbered. There are at least three different front designs for Albatros cards. These front designs are as follows:
Name in rectangular box within picture frame
Name below picture frame
Name inside picture frame
For the Name below picture frame type, there are at least two different back designs. The first two types above have also been seen with blank backs.
An album was issued with this set. It appears the album was meant to hold the Name in rectangular box within picture frame type, with additional blank spaces at the back for more cards. The album contains 10 pages of 15 boxes, with the first 75 boxes names and the last 75 blank. Collector Amit Benyovits acquired an original album full of cards, and inside were cards of all types listed above, along with a card from the Cafe Vog set. This indicates that all these sets were issued at around the same time or consecutively. French collector Serge Plumecocq also supplied pictures of his Albatros album and the different picture types were also mixed within his album.
With all the different front/back types available, this is a very difficult set to checklist. The checklist below shows all the known front/back combinations. Click the small picture above to view a picture checklist of all the known fronts in alphabetical order.
Thanks to Amit Benyovits, Serge Plumecocq, and Richard Minns for help with this checklist.
Front/Back Combinations Checklist
Name in rectangular box within picture frame, blank back
June Allyson
Francoise Arnoul
Brigitte Auber
Lauren Bacall
Ingrid Bergman
James Cagney
Corinne Calvet
Martine Carol
Cyd Charisse
Wendell Corey
Joseph Cotten
Nicole Courcel
Bing Crosby
Danielle Darrieux
Doris Day
Suzy Delair
Carla Del Poggio
Kirk Douglas
Deanna Durbin
Vera Ellen
Fernandel (grey suit)
Fernandel (chequered suit)
Errol Flynn
Marie France
Pierre Fresnay
Ava Gardner
Greer Garson
Daniel Gelin
Frances Gifford
Georges Guetary
Jean Hagen
Rita Hayworth
Audrey Hepburn
Charlton Heston
John Hodiak
William Holden
Jennifer Jones
Danny Kaye
Gene Kelly
Deborah Kerr
Alan Ladd
Veronika Lake
Andre Le Gall
Philippe Lemaire
Gina Lollobrigida
John Lund
Victor Mature
Yves Montand
Michele Morgan
Amedeo Nazzari
Magali Noel
Jean-Claude Pascal
Patrice et Mario
Gerard Philippe
Micheline Presles
Serge Reggiani
Line Renaud
Tino Rossi
Robert Taylor
Tilda Thamar
Gene Tierney
Charles Trenet
Lana Turner
Elizabeth Taylor
Anne Vernon
Frank Villard
Orson Welles
Esther Williams
Name in rectangular box within picture frame, back text in top half of card only
Brigitte Auber
Michel Auclair
Lauren Bacall
Danielle Darrieux
Doris Day
Fernandel
Pierre Fresnay
Greer Garson
Daniel Gelin
Georges Guetary
Rudy Hirigoyen
Jennifer Jones
Odette Joyeux
Danny Kaye
Gene Kelly
Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Gisele Pascal
Gerard Philippe
Serge Reggiani
Tino Rossi
Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Taylor
Gene Tierney
Raf Vallone
Anne Vernon
Name in rectangular box within picture frame, back text in both halves of the card
Vera Ellen
Marie France
Errol Flynn
Andre Le Gall
Ava Gardner
Rita Hayworth
Charlton Heston
Georges Marchal
Tilda Thamar
Charles Trenet
Frank Villars
Orson Welles
Esther Williams
Name below picture frame, blank back
June Allyson
Francoise Arnoult (sic.)
Humphrey Bogart
Corinne Calvet
Martine Carol
Leslie Caron
Steve Cochran
Nicole Courcel
Doris Day
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Errol Flynn
Mona Freeman
Clark Gable
Kathryn Grayson
Georges Guetary
Katherine Hepburn
John Hodiak
Van Johnson
Alan Ladd
Hedy Lamarr
Robert Lamoureux
Burt Lancaster
Philipe Lemaire
Pierre Malar
Silvana Mangano
Jean Marais
Luis Mariano
Victor Mature
Virginia Mayo
Yves Montand
Laurence Olivier
Eleanor Parker
Gisele Pascal
John Payne
Gregory Peck
Line Renaud
Colette Ripert
Viviane Romance
Jane Russell
Jane Wyman
Name below picture frame, back text in both halves of the card, last line "votre fournisseur"
Anouk Aimee
June Allyson
Francoise Arnoult
Ingrid Bergman
Bernard Blier
Humphrey Bogart
Raymond Bussieres
Andre Claveau
Steve Cochran
Wendell Corey
Andre Dassary
Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn
Mona Freeman
Jean Gabin
Clark Gable
Kathryn Grayson
Georges Guetary
John Hodiak
Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd
Burt Lancaster
Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza
Vivica Lindfors
Gina Lollobrigida
Anna Magnani
Pierre Malar
Jean Marais
Maria Elena Marques
Maria Elena Marques
Virginia Mayo
Ricardo Montalban
Michele Morgan
Carrol Naish
John Payne
Jane Russell
Randolph Scott
Elizabeth Taylor
John Wayne
Esther Williams
Esther Williams
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman
Name below picture frame, back text in both halves of the card, last line "consultez-nous."
Pier Angeli
Name inside picture frame, name also on back of card near bottom
James Cagney
Cyd Charisse
Carla Del Poggio
Sophie Desmaret
Frances Gifford
Amadeo Nazzari
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