Peerless Series C Set

Issuing Company: Peerless
Country of Issue: USA
Year of Issue: 1932
Color/B&W: B&W with pinkish background and border
Number of Cards in Set: 200 different fronts
Card Size: 1 1/8" x 2 3/8"
Issued as insert with what product: Came out of coin-operated weight machines

Notes: These cards can be identified by the Series C on the back. They contain the following characteristics - they are in black and white with a pastel pinkish-grey background and pinkish-white border. Identifying text is written in diagonal script. On the back, these cards contain a fortune on one side, the name of the issuer on the other, and a space for a weight printout in the middle. There is a copyright line on the back that starts with Pat. No. 1546553. Cards from this set are numbered.

There are 200 different fronts for this set, but the back numbering is very wacky. Multiple fronts have been seen for most numbers and it is likely that all the fronts can be found with 2 or more numbers on the back. The backs do not have the name of the movie star, so there is nothing on the back linking a particular number to a particular star. The alphabetical checklist below is complete, but it is likely that the numerical checklist is incomplete.

Exact year of issue not known. The dates I've seen so far in the weight printout range from 1932 to 1934, so these cards must have been issued in 1932 or earlier.

Thanks to Pat Chiappetta, Mike Raboin, David York, Susan Binder, Don Bradley, and Keven Oates for help with this checklist. Special thanks to Pat Chiappetta for supplying most of the scans of this set and for clarifying that there are 200 fronts for this set.

Known issuers:
Generic - Collect Engrav-o-tints
The Burg Co.
The H. C. Capwell Co.
Crowley Milner & Co.
Duckwall's
W. T. Grant Co.
Haak Bros. Store
Hale Bros.
S. S. Kresge Co.
Liggett's Drug Stores (2 different designs)
F. S. Marshall Co.
J. G. McCrory Company
Mission Home Dept. Store
O. J. Morrison Stores
G. C. Murphy Co.
Neisner Bros., Inc.
J. J. Newberry Co.
Perry Brothers Inc.
Reads
Rose's 5-10-25¢ Stores
Montgomery Ward

Alphabetical Checklist

Numerical Checklist

1. Jean Hersholt
1. Roscoe Ates
2. William Powell
2. Gary Cooper
3. Phillips Holmes
4. Buster Keaton - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
4. Gary Cooper
5. Charles Rogers
5. Slim Summerville
5. Monte Blue
6. Richard Dix
6. John Garrick
7. Charles Farrell
7. John Garrick
8. John Garrick
8. Pete - Hal Roach Rascals
9. Richard Arlen
9. Owen Davis Jr. - Fox Pictures
10. Eugene Pallette
10. Robert Montgomery
10. Monte Blue
11. Bert Lytell
11. Allen Kearns
12. Monte Blue
12. Harry Richman
13. Don Jose Monjica
13. Rudy Vallee
14. George O'Brien
15. Charlie Murray
15. Jackie Cooper
16. Fredric March
16. El Brendel
17. Warner Baxter
17. George Bancroft
18. Renee Adoree - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
18. Ernest Torrence
19. Dorothy Jordan
20. Renee Adoree
20. J. M. Kerrigan - Fox Pictures
21. Laura LaPlante
21. Jack Mulhall
22. Kathryn Crawford
22. Betty Compson
23. Billie Dove
23. H. B. Warner
24. Betty Compson
24. Conrad Nagel
25. Reginald Denny - Sono-Art
25. Sydney Fox
26. Robert Montgomery
26. Marie Prevost
27. Lloyd Hughes
27. Kay Francis
28. Roscoe Ates
28. Dixie Lee
29. Robert Ames
30. Sidney Blackmer
30. Greta Garbo
31. Robert Woolsey
31. Sue Carol
32. Lola Lane
33. Joel McCrea
33. Ona Munson
34. Ivan Lebedeff
34. June Clyde
35. David Manners - First National
35. George Sidney
35. Edna May Oliver
36. Owen Davis, Jr. - Fox Pictures
36. Maureen O'Sullivan
37. Marian Marsh - Warner Brothers
37. Maurice Chevalier
38. Leo Carrillo
38. David Manners
39. Skeets Gallagher
39. Fifi Dorsay
40. Rudy Vallee
40. Genevieve Tobin
41. Ned Sparks
41. Mae Clarke
42. William Collier
42. Edward Everett Horton
43. Geoffrey Kerr
44. Mary Astor
44. George Bancroft - Paramount Pictures
45. Bert Wheeler
45. Bebe Daniels
45. Bert Lytell
46. Hugh Herbert - Radio Pictures
47. Kenneth Thompson
47. Conchita Montenegro
48. Jack Mulhall
48. Marjorie White
49. Paul Lukas - Paramount Pictures
49. Claudia Dell
50. Hugh Trevor
50. Lawrence Gray
51. Harry Green
51. Lloyd Hughes
52. Phillips Holmes - Columbia Pictures
52. Buster Keaton
52. Joyce Compton
53. Will Rogers
53. Barbara Stanwyck
53. Lewis Stone
54. Walter Huston
54. Harry Green
55. Kenneth McKenna
55. Robert Woolsey
55. Noel Francis
56. Charles Farrell - Fox Pictures
56. Pete - Hal Roach Rascals
57. Charles Chaplin (no studio listed)
57. Joseph Cawthorne
58. Kenneth McKenna - Fox Pictures
58. Arthur Lake - Radio Pictures
59. John Miljan
60. Bert Lytell
60. Harry Richman
61. Ben Lyon - Warner Brothers
61. Jack Holt
62. John Miljan
62. Claude Allister
63. Jack Oakie
63. Skeets Gallagher
64. El Brendel - Fox Pictures
64. Charlie Murray
65. Alexander Gray
65. Lew Ayres
66. Lew Ayres
66. Jack Oakie
67. Geoffrey Kerr
67. Ralph Graves
67. Adolfe Menjou
68. Dorothy Jordan - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
68. J. M. Kerrigan
69. Edmund Lowe
69. Tim McCoy
70. George McFarland
71. Glenn Tryon
71. Kenneth Thompson
72. Billie Dove - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
72. Conrad Nagel
72. William Collier
73. John Mack Brown - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
73. Grant Withers
74. James Cruze (no studio listed)
74. Richard Cromwell
74. Glen Tryon
75. Lewis Stone - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
76. Norman Chaney
77. Charles King
77. Dorothy Sebastian
78. William Haines
78. Clara Bow
79. Charles Chaplin (no studio listed)
79. Barbara Kent
80. Lottie Loder (Warner Brothers)
80. Lawrence Tibbett
81. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
81. Renee Macready
82. Janet Gaynor
82. Alec B. Francis
83. Jack Holt - Columbia Pictures
83. Dorothy Mackaill
84. Allen Kearns
84. Marion Nixon
85. Faye Wray
85. Cliff Edwards
86. Charles Bickford
86. Jean Arthur
87. George Arliss
87. Gwen Lee
88. Lowell Sherman - Radio Pictures
88. Jackie Cooper
89. Ralph Graves
89. Leila Hyams
90. Wheezer - Hal Roach Studios
90. Barbara Bennett (no studio listed)
91. Nancy Carroll - Paramount
91. Tim McCoy - Universal Pictures
92. Karl Dane
92. Clive Brook
93. Joan Crawford
93. Sunny Jim
94. Buck Jones - Columbia Pictures
94. Constance Cummings
95. Grant Withers
95. Bodil Rosing
96. H. B. Warner - Warner Brothers
96. Wallace Beery
97. Nancy Drexel
97. Jeanette Loff
98. Farina
98. Arline Judge
99. Clara Bow - Paramount Pictures
99. Dorothy Lee
100. Dixie Lee
100. Pat O'Malley
101. Evelyn Brent - Columbia
101. Robert Montgomery
102. Rita LaRoy - Radio Pictures
102. William Powell
103. Janet Gaynor - Fox Pictures
103. James Cruze
104. Lola Lane - Tiffany Pictures
104. Hugh Trevor
105. Sidney Blackmer - First National
105. Lupe Velez
106. Richard Dix
106. Alyce McCormick
107. William Haines
107. Jean Arthur
108. Maureen O'Sullivan - Fox Pictures
108. Walter Huston
109. Joyce Compton
109. Ivan Lebedev
110. Lois Moran - Fox Pictures
110. Eugene Pallette
111. Barbara Bennett
111. Alec B. Francis
112. Genevieve Tobin - Universal Pictures
112. Arthur Lake - Radio Pictures
113. Leo Carrillo
113. Joan Blondell
114. Raquel Torres - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
114. George O'Brien
115. Constance Cummings
115. Charles Bickford
116. Claude Allister
116. Mary Astor
116. George Arliss
117. Merna Kennedy - Universal Pictures
117. Wm. Collier
118. Norma Talmadge
118. Ernest Torrence
119. Farina - Hal Roach Studios
119. Wheezer
120. Marjorie White
120. Wheezer
121. Yvonne Pelletier
121. Hugh Herbert
122. Helen Chandler
122. Kathryn Crawford
123. Dorothy Sebastian
123. Buck Jones
124. Kay Francis
124. George McFarland
125. Eleanor Boardman
125. Mary Ann Jackson
126. Aileen Pringle
126. Lila Lee
127. Helen Chandler
127. Renee Macready
128. Sue Carol - Fox Pictures
129. Miriam Seegar - Radio Pictures
129. Mary Brian
130. Sally Blane - Radio Pictures
130. Louise Dresser
131. Aileen Pringle - Columbia Pictures
131. Fay Wray
132. Edna May Oliver
132. Rita LaRoy
133. Norma Shearer
133. Irene Dunne
134. Dorothy Christie - Tiffany Pictures
134. Doris Kenyon
135. Sally Blane
135. Leila Hyams
136. Fifi Dorsay - Fox Pictures
136. Alyce McCormick
137. Marie Dressler
137. Anita Page
138. Lillian Bond
138. Winnie Lightner
139. Joan Crawford
139. Dorothy Christie
140. Lois Moran
140. Loretta Young
141. Margaret Livingston - Columbia Pictures
141. Ruth Chatterton
142. Louise Fazenda
142. Richard Cromwell
143. Lillian Bond
143. Jeanette Loff
144. Conchita Montenegro - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
144. Raquel Torres
145. Olive Borden - Radio Pictures
145. Dolores Costello - Warner Brothers
146. Bela Lugosi
146. Mary Ann Jackson
147. Barbara Stanwyck
147. Louise Fazenda
148. Sydney Fox - Universal
148. Norma Talmadge
149. Lois Wilson
149. Roberta Gale
150. Mary Brian
151. Barbara Kent
151. Reginald Denny
152. Lenore Ulric - (no studio listed)
152. Jean Hersholt
153. John Mack Brown
153. Ilka Chase
154. Norma Shearer
155. Robert Ames - Radio Pictures
155. Dorothy Mackaill
156. Ona Munson - First National Pictures
156. Charles Rogers
156. Mary Ann Jackson
157. Charles King - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
157. Helen Kaiser
158. Anita Page
158. Will Rogers
159. Gwen Lee
160. Richard Arlen
160. Marian Marsh
161. Marguerite Churchill
161. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
162. Ruth Chatterton
162. Joseph Cawthorne
163. Nancy Carroll
163. Maurice Chevalier
164. Mae Clarke
164. Don Jose Monjica
165. Polly Moran
166. Olive Borden - Radio Pictures
166. Ben Lyon
167. Bodil Rosing (no studio listed)
167. Charles King
167. Ned Sparks
168. Warner Baxter - Fox Pictures
168. Bebe Daniels
169. Claudette Colbert
169. Ralph Graves
170. Alexander Gray - First National
170. Lois Wilson
171. Dorothy Lee
171. Bert Wheeler - Radio Pictures
172. Claudia Dell - Radio Pictures
172. Laura LaPlante
173. Sunny Jim
173. Marian Davies
174. Edmund Lowe - Fox Pictures
174. Lila Lee - First National
175. Rose Hobart - Universal Pictures
175. Dolores Costello
176. Marie Prevost - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
176. Marion Davies
177. Marlene Dietrich - Paramount Pictures
177. Yvonne Pelletier
178. Louise Dressler
178. Nancy Drexel
179. Roberta Gale - Radio Pictures
179. Lottie Loder
180. Marlene Dietrich
180. Greta Garbo
181. Eleanor Boardman - Columbia Pictures
181. Noel Francis
182. Doris Kenyon
182. Evelyn Brent
183. Marion Nixon - Warner Brothers
183. Ilka Chase - Fox Pictures
184. June Clyde - Radio Pictures
184. Cliff Edwards
184. Noel Francis
185. Miriam Seegar
185. Dorothy Revier
186. Winnie Lightner
186. Lupe Velez
187. Lowell Sherman - Radio Pictures
187. Helen Kaiser
188. Dorothy Revier - Columbia Pictures
188. David Manners
189. Irene Dunne
189. Regis Toomey
190. Richard Cromwell
191. Clive Brook - Paramount Pictures
191. Marguerite Churchill
192. Edward Everett Horton
192. Regis Toomey
193. Ken Maynard
193. Marie Dressler - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
194. Bela Lugosi - Universal Pictures
194. Joan Blondell
195. Wallace Beery - Metro Goldwyn Mayer
195. Polly Moran
196. Frank Fay - Warner Brothers
196. Ken Maynard
197. Margaret Livingston
197. John Barrymore
198. John Boles
198. Merna Kennedy
199. Claudette Colbert
200. John Boles
200. Lawrance Gray
200. John Barrymore

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