Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1941
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: unknown (unnumbered)
Card Size: 1 1/8" x 2 3/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated weight machines
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Issuing Company: Peerless Country of Issue: USA Year of Issue: 1941 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: unknown (unnumbered) Card Size: 1 1/8" x 2 3/8" Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated weight machines |
Notes: Checklist Incomplete. These cards can be identified by the following characteristics - they are in black and white, there is a star's picture is on a opaque clouded area within the photo field. The star's name is in script with the studio name below in script - both are printed diagonally. On the back, these cards contain a fortune on one side, "Collect Engrav-o-tints" or the name of the issuer on the other, and a space for a weight printout in the middle. In the Peerless copyright line, there is no "Ptd. In USA" at the end. There are usually no double thick lines in the middle surrounding the weight reading. Usually there is no Pat.1546553 at the beginning of the Peerless copyright line, but I have seen some with this.
There are some variations in this set. Two different Betty Grable, Jack Haley, and Cesar Romero cards have been seen so far. I believe all of these cards were probably not issued together. There were probably at least two separate sets issued, or new cards were issued as the promotion went on. Since there is no way of telling these apart, they will all be lumped together as one set in this checklist.
Exact year of issue not known. I have studied the back of a few of these cards, and two contained a penned-in date of 1941 in the weight printout, so these cards were probably issued in 1941 or earlier.
Known issuers:
Generic - Collect Engrav-o-tints - Portraits of Movie Stars
Generic - Poker hand on one side of card - double thick lines for weight printout
Bartells - Seattle's own drug stores
The Emporium - San Francisco
W. T. Grant Co.
Hale Bros.
S. S. Kresge Co.
Liggett's Drug Stores
McLellan Stores
G. C. Murphy Co.
J. J. Newberry Co.
The Owl Drug Co.
J. C. Penney
Walgreen Drug Stores
Robert Allen - Columbia Pictures
Don Ameche - 20th Century-Fox
Henry Armetta - Universal Pictures
Edward Arnold - Universal Pictures
Gene Autry - Republic Pictures
George Barbier - Paramount Pictures
Lynn Bari - 20th Century-Fox
Thomas Beck - 20th Century-Fox
Joan Bennett - Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Mary Boland - Paramount Pictures
Charles Boyer - Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Phyllis Brooks - 20th Century-Fox
Spring Byington - 20th Century-Fox
Madeleine Carroll - Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Cora Sue Collins (no studio listed)
Alan Curtis - 20th Century-Fox
Joan Davis - 20th Century-Fox
Alan Dinehart - 20th Century-Fox
Brian Donlevy - 20th Century-Fox
Irene Dunne - Universal Pictures
Alice Faye - 20th Century-Fox
Stepin Fetchit - 20th Century-Fox
W. C. Fields - Paramount Pictures
Henry Fonda - Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Janet Gaynor - 20th Century-Fox
Virginia Gilmore - 20th Century-Fox
Jimmy Gleason - RKO Studios
Betty Grable - RKO Studios
Betty Grable - 20th Century-Fox
Alan Hale (no studio listed)
Jack Haley - 20th Century-Fox (with hat)
Jack Haley - 20th Century-Fox (no hat)
John Halliday - Paramount Pictures
Mary Healy - 20th Century-Fox
Sonja Henie - 20th Century-Fox
Jean Hersholt - 20th Century-Fox
Jack Holt - Universal Pictures
Dean Jagger - 20th Century-Fox
Kenneth Howell - 20th Century-Fox
Rochelle Hudson - 20th Century-Fox
Mary Beth Hughes - 20th Century-Fox
Fred Keating (no studio listed)
Nancy Kelly - 20th Century-Fox
Paul Kelly - 20th Century-Fox
Alan Lane - 20th Century-Fox
Hedy Lamarr - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Frances Langford - Walter Wanger Productions
Mary Lee - Republic Pictures
Carole Lombard - Paramount Pictures
Fred MacMurray - Paramount Pictures
Fredric March - 20th Century-Fox
Joan Marsh - 20th Century-Fox
Anthony Martin - 20th Century-Fox
Ken Maynard (no studio listed)
Herbert Mundin - 20th Century-Fox
George Murphy - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jack Oakie - Paramount Pictures
Warner Oland (as Charlie Chan) - 20th Century-Fox
Maureen O'Sullivan - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Bradley Page (no studio listed)
Walter Pidgeon - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Eleanor Powell - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Tyrone Power - 20th Century-Fox
Jed Prouty - 20th Century-Fox
George Raft - Paramount Pictures
Florence Rice - Columbia Pictures
Cesar Romero - 20th Century-Fox
Cesar Romero - Universal Pictures
Mickey Rooney - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Charles Ruggles - Paramount Pictures
Ann Rutherford - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sheila Ryan - 20th Century-Fox
Randolph Scott - Paramount Pictures
Allison Skipworth - Paramount Pictures
Ann Sothern - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sir Guy Standing - Paramount Pictures
Gloria Stuart - 20th Century-Fox
Claire Trevor - 20th Century-Fox
Evelyn Venable
Michael Whalen - 20th Century-Fox
Loretta Young - 20th Century-Fox
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