Fabulous 1930s Carreras Palmistry Cigarette Cards, Complete Set of 50, Near Mint Victorian playing cards finely hand-painted

finely hand-painted

and the wonderful painted decoration everywhere

There were a few different iterations of double sided "Pocket Signal Disks" like this one--I've seen one issued by the Boy Scouts

I believe the fronts were hand-printed--the color is lush but a little uneven

(It is quite heavy

Fabulous 1930s Carreras Palmistry Cigarette Cards, Complete Set of 50, Near Mint Victorian playing cards finely hand-paintedSo excellent. I do tend to look at old cigarette cards when I come across them, but I'd never seen a palmistry set before, and I think they're the best set ever made! C. 1930s, produced for Carreras Ltd. "High Class Cigarettes," whose factory was located at Arcadia Works in Camden, London. Cigarette cards originated in the late 19th century as unprinted cardboard "stiffeners" inserted into paper cigarette packets, but quickly morphed into highly