Mahalla Die Schönsten Frauen der Welt

Issuing Company: Mahalla, Richterswil, Zurich
Country of Issue: Switzerland
Year of Issue: early 1930s
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size: 1 3/4" x 2 3/4"
Issued as insert with what product: Cigarettes

Notes: Checklist incomplete. The title translates to "World's Most Beautiful Women."

Date info: The World Tobacco Issues Index indicates this set was issued in 1954, but the women pictured on the cards suggest a date in the early 1930s. Fox Film Corp. is listed as the film studio for some of the women, and Fox Film Corp. ceased to exist after 1935, as they became 20th Century Fox after that date, lending further evidence to an early 1930s date.

Ernestine Anderson
Heather Angel
Wendy Barrie
Mary Carlisle
Claudette Colbert
Ilse Constantin
Frances Drake
Alice Faye
Kaye Francis
Janet Gaynor
Keriman Halis Hanem
Brigitte Helm
June Knight (white shorts standing on stairs)
June Knight (black bathing suit holding canoe paddle)
Elissa Landi
Drue Leyton
Marie Losseff
Conchita Montenegro
Maureen O'Sullivan
Jean Parker (head and shoulders)
Jean Parker (standing-full body showing)
Ruth Peterson
Lyda Roberti
Norma Shearer
Gloria Swanson
Luise Ullrich
Dorothea Wieck
Diana Wynyard
Loretta Young


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