For Sale: Greetings Cards - Vintage Cycling Cigarette Cards

Hey,

So I've made some Cycling Greetings Cards, using images from vintage cigarette cards. On the front, is the image, and on the back is the description. The inside is blank for your message. There are six designs: Lady Cyclist 1939; Track Racking Position; Road Time Trial Postion; Path Racing Bicycle, Six-Day Racing and Bicycle Polo.

Sample Back Text:

PATH RACING BICYCLE
Used exclusively for high-speed racing on concrete, asphalt or grass tracks, this type of pbicycle weighs about 18 lb. and costs approximately £14 The frame is of upright design, allowing the rider to sit more forward over the pedals, so that he can "jump" into a sprint by thrusting and "clawing" at the pedals.

This is a set of six cards with envelopes, £10 a set, and in light of this thread 10% (or one pound) of each set sold on the forum will go to David.

PM me or email me on photo@benbroomfield.com and I can arrange delivery.

FREE POSTAGE for CHRISTMAS

Cheers,
Ben

Pretty.......

Say I wanted to get family, friends, etc to buy me some of these - how could they contact you? I'd like to forward a link but I think signing up to the forum, and doing the whole 'list' thing may be too much for them. Perhaps you could add some other contact details in the op?

Good point.

Like ;)

Track Racking Position

Is that one for Ed? ;)

Lovely work, Ben!

They're great Ben just in time for the winter gift and card giving festival
Will be ordering some

Guys you're going to give him a big head - be mean to him, like I am :)

cigarettes? what?

He took some vintage cigarette cards and made them into greetings cards.
(Just incase your Google is broken)
In the UK, W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1887 were one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was John Player & Sons in 1893 that produced one of the first general; interest sets ‘Castles and Abbeys’. Thomas Ogden soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set ‘Ships and Sailors’, followed by ‘Cricketers' in 1896. In 1906, Ogden’s produced a set of football cards depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.
Each set of cards typically consisted of 25 or 50 related subjects, but series of over 100 cards per issue are known. Popular themes were 'beauties' (famous actresses, film stars and models), sporters (in the US mainly baseball, in the rest of the world mainly football and cricket), nature, military heroes and uniforms, heraldry[3] and city views.

Just picked up some cards from Ben

They are beautiful, perfect winter greeting cards for people who don't need jesus, holly or snowmen.
Thanks Ben

cigarettes? what?

Guys you're going to give him a big head - be mean to him, like I am :)

He told me it was the other way around....

Good work by the way, Ben!

Dibs & PM'd

A great way to freak out my family even more about my cycling obsession (I've always been the creative, weirdly dressing one - now I'm the 'sporty' one apparently)

How did you get Markyboy to wear a suit for the Road Time Trial Position card?

Maybe he is a relative of "Reuben Firth, a great Yorkshire road rider."

Picked up two packs of these yesterday - they are spiffing.

Highly recommended for any occasion.

You should turn them into posters. Framed, hung in a spare room, you'd look well classy.

Just in time for Christmas, I still have a few packs going.