EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

123 In 1917 due to a shortage of materials caused by the First World war, production of cards ceased and they did not reappear again until 1922. Sets issued throughout the 1920s and ’30s represented the Golden Age of card collecting, and covered almost all aspects of nature, transport, sport, etc. In 1940 the British wartime government again banned cigarette cards citing them as “a waste of vital raw materials.” In the aftermath of the war any hope of a return to the Golden Age of cigarette cards were binned by rationing and the high cost of raw materials.