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    • A- ABDULLA, AFTON, ADKINS, ALLEN (Richmond Gem), ANSTIE,
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    • CARRERAS-Craven A, Dunhill, Kensitas, Picaddilly, Turf
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    • ENGLAND'S GLORY, EDWARDS, RINGER
    • FRANKLYN'S & FAULKNER
    • GALLAHERS- Ariel, B&H, Cadets, du-Maurier, Nelson, Olivier, Park Drive, Senior Service, Silk Cut, Sterling
    • GREYS, HILLS, LAMBERT & BUTLER, MARCELLA, MITCHELLS, MARCOVITCH, MELACHRINO, PARLIMENT,
    • PLAYER'S-(Anchor, Bachelor, Country Life, Clipper, Gold Leaf, JPS, Navy cut, Player's Please, Player's, Vanguard, Weights)
    • ROTHMANS, STUYVESANT, SALMON & GLUCKSTEIN ,TEOFANI, WESTMINSTER, WINTERMANNS
    • WILLS'S-(Star, Capstan, Gold flake, Woodbine, Bristol, Embassy, Castella, Strand, Virginia, etc.)
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A Collection of Cigarette & Tobacco Advertising hardware
- Mostly issued  by
​the Imperial Tobacco company (ITC)

(Period 1920-2000)

ITC History

To restore or not?

3/9/2018

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Here is an example of an item I have restored. Bought it in condition shown and not working...that is no ding when top button pressed. After a few tweaks it works fine and looks pretty? Some would say leave it in its used condition...then why do people make old classic cars look like new? Anyway its done now and good for another 90 years.
As bought
Restored

time for a woodbine

​Woodbine was a brand of cigarette made in England by W.D. & H. O. Wills (now Imperial Tobacco) since 1888.
Noted for its strong unfiltered cigarettes, the brand was popular in the early 20th century, especially with army men during the First and Second World War. In the Great War, the British Army chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy MC was affectionately nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" by troops on the Western Front to whom he handed out cigarettes along with bibles and spiritual comfort.
In common parlance, the unfiltered high-tar Woodbine was one of the brands collectively known as "gaspers" until about 1950, because new smokers found their strong smoke difficult to inhale. A filtered version was launched in the United Kingdom in 1948, but was discontinued in 1988.
All sorts of advertising material carried the 'Woodbine' brand and green seemed to be the basic branding colour.
Woodbine is also another name for the honeysuckle, a widespread common climbing plant with its green foliage and potent scent on warm summers evenings.
Was the use of the word 'woodbine' for cigarettes a deliberate ploy to associate smoking with the sweeter smelling things of life? Who knows!

Here follows some typical 'Woodbine' images from my collection. 
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    Last update

    13 Jan 2022 - added Wills change tray and several single playing cards
    6 Dec 2021 - added Players Please Bridge card
    ​6 Nov 2021 - added L&B ashtray, Park drive whist card.
    ​27 Oct 2021 - added Richmond Gem glass ashtray
    19 Sept 2021 - SS Club card added.
    ​13 August 2021 - RED BELL ashtray added.
    ​11 August 2021 - Players Please change tray, CONDOR crib board, 2 fixtures cards and Nelson Whist card added.
    21 July 2021 - Shrewsbury Park Drive case & Wooden Capstan dominoes added.
    21 April 2021 - 3 club cards added.
    ​13 March 2021 -Ogdens GoldBlock change tray and Wills's bridge card added.
    18 Feb 2021 - Melachrino ashtray added.
    ​3 Feb 2021 - England's Glory crib board added -Green.
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