I was going thru my book shelf because I was thinking about thinning it out and started leafing thru this book. They were (as I understand it) placed in the lobbies of hotels. Inside it are 287 cigarette card pictures of contemporary awards from WW1/Imperial era.
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Given the awards present and lack of TR bling these must have been from the 20s-early 30s.pseudo-expert -
I decided to see if the pics might be good enough to ID makers. These EKs look vaguely familiar.pseudo-expertComment
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Its also nice to see what a real WW1 Naval Wound Badge looked like.pseudo-expertComment
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But what should we make of this?pseudo-expertComment
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And this?pseudo-expertComment
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Don, a very nice cigarette pics book. As far as I know, these books are collector's albums, in every pack of cigarettes there was one pic and if you smoked enough, you could collect them all.
But I don't think these pics are good for reference - they don't look like realistic photos, more likely paintings or highly retouched photos.Comment
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I've seen these books come up on ebay from time to time.
I have often thought about getting one.
Don,
I think that the Ek cards look a lot like the blued core
Zimmerman crosses.
The first that that caught my eye was the closed 4 in the date.
Also the "9" does not have any extra cure to it. Same as the
Zimmermans.
Another thing that I noticed was the somewhat pointy center to
the "Ws" There again, Zimmerman looks to have a narrower
center to the "W" as the generic Slant "W" core.
The cross on the second card has a crown that also looks some like
that of the Zimmermans (granted, it's hard to tell for sure) The first
card, the detail is not good enough to really make a guess.
Ok--let the fun begin
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Anyone else?pseudo-expertComment
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I think the PLMs could be Godet types (incl. "Schickles"), heavily reworked by an artist and then a colorist. Some catalogue images were made (I am convinced) by tracing a photo of a real award, which often rendered it totally unrecognizable. Add ink and color on top, and I guess you could end up with something like this from a Godet. The proportions seen consistent with Godets.Best regards,
Streptile
Looking for ROUND BUTTON 1939 EK1 Spange cases (LDO or PKZ)Comment
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How do these compare?pseudo-expertComment
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Very close, I'd say the one from the book is a photo that's been colored.Best regards,
Streptile
Looking for ROUND BUTTON 1939 EK1 Spange cases (LDO or PKZ)Comment
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Could be colored but its hard to say. The problem is with taking pics of the cards as they have a shiny surface. Still, they are very accurate in their depictions.pseudo-expertComment
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Photo editting
The PLM eagles have their beaks. They were just hidden by the shine.pseudo-expertComment
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and the wound badge detail is very sharp.pseudo-expertComment
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