British Postal History - Royal Mail 1909

Not a selection of covers, but a series of cigarette cards devoted to the Royal Mail, issued by Ogden in 1909. Following the Tobacco War, Ogden was by then a part of Imperial Tobacco, rather than an independent manufacturer. Apologies for the variety of orientation!

Fabulous stuff ! Geoff.
Thanks for posting.
I have a few myself, your collection is a doozy.

Rod - Thank you. I'm guessing you have some of the Wills Australia issue, which also has different cards. I only have a handful of those.

Geoff.
I only have the "Cleft Stick" Postman in Wills.
Where they are now, heaven knows, packed away in a shoebox.
(Difficult to display without dedicated album)

I have a Catalogue though. of the Cigarette Cards

Some Images (Capstan as well)

The British Empire series, which was issued here by Player around 1904, is a personal favourite. I posted a picture of the skiing Aussie postman from that series elsewhere. Collecting the Aussie issues is a more complex game, as they appeared with three different brand backs - Capstan, Havelock and Vice-Regal.

Despite the fact that the British Museum has the world's great collection of cards, bequeathed by the splendidly named Edward Wharton-Tigar, it's done nothing with them. But the NYPL has an excellent digital resource

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org...b=navigation

Thanks to you both, guys, for posting these cards - History again !