Country of Issue: England
Year of Issue: 1922
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: 50
Card Size:
Issued as insert with what product: Cigarettes
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Issuing Company: Country of Issue: England Year of Issue: 1922 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: 50 Card Size: Issued as insert with what product: Cigarettes |
Notes: The Second Series OMBI cards were issued with "Officer's Mess Cigarettes" (African Tobacco Co.), There is always satisfaction in a Guernsey made Cigarette" (Bucktrout), and "Indo Egyptian Cigarette Company, Cheribon." OMBI stands for Officers Mess, Bucktrout, Indo Egyptian Cigarette Company. It appears that the back text can be found in either brown or grey.
Date info: The Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle card in the Indo Egyptian Film Stars (OMBI) set is important when trying to figure out the date of this set and related OMBI sets. A scandal embroiled Arbuckle in September 1921, and he seldom appeared on cards after that date. The OMBI sets contain mostly identical checklists, but the Indo Egyptian version contains Arbuckle as #34, while the others show Nigel Barrie as #34. The likely reason for this is that the Indo Egyptian set was probably released first, and when the others were released, they were changed to remove Arbuckle. This indicates that the Indo Egyptian set was probably released in 1921, and the others were probably released later in 1921 or in 1922.
There is a second series of this set with different cards, also issued with "Officer's Mess Cigarettes" (African Tobacco Co.), There is always satisfaction in a Guernsey made Cigarette" (Bucktrout), and "Indo Egyptian Cigarette Company, Cheribon." In addition, the second series set was also issued with "Flor Islena" cigarettes in the Canary Islands. The second series was likely issued in 1922, as that is the only year Lois Sturt has any movies listed in the IMDb and would be a likely year for the second series, as the first series was likely issued in 1921.
Thanks to Richard Minns for providing the information for this set.
1. Will Rogers
2. Agnes Ayres
3. Dustin Farnum
4. Gloria Swanson
5. Hilda Bayley
6. Cullen Landis
7. Lila Lee
8. "Snub" Pollard
9. Victor McLaglen
10. Charles Buck Jones
11. Monte Blue
12. Percy Marmont
13. Ivy Duke
14. Alec B. Francis
15. Gregory Scott
16. Winifred McCarthy
17. Hon. Lois Stuart
18. Joan Morgan
19. Colleen Moore
20. George K. Arthur
21. Flora Le Breton
22. Sybil Thorndyke
23. Ivy Close
24. Shayle Gardner
25. Richard Dix
26. E. Bromley Davenport
27. Earle Williams
28. Col. Robert English
29. Walter Forde
30. Malcolm Tod
31. Florence Turner
32. Alice Calhoun
33. Jean Paige
34. Edith Johnson
35. Bebe Daniels
36. Wanda Hawley
37. Lucille Ricksen
38. William Duncan
39. Betty Compson
40. Jackie Coogan
41. Corinne Griffith
42. Cameron Carr
43. Larry Semon
44. Guy Newall
45. Justine Johnson
46. Naomi Childers
47. Ethel Clayton
48. Constance Binney
49. Alice Brady
50. May McAvoy
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