Card of the Day: King George V

I can’t believe that we have already worked our way through the fifty Wills’s Cigarette Company cards that were produced in 1935 for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. But, never fear. There are more. Many, many more.

Here’s another set, also produced in 1935 for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. This set of twenty cards (of an unusual square shape) were made by Godfrey Phillips Ltd. of London.

The first card in the set, naturally, depicts King George in his red Irish Navy uniform wearing his appropriate garter badges and medals.

Unlike the last set of cards, these focus more on portraits of individual people instead of scenes from the reign of the King and Queen. I think you’ll really enjoy these attractive cards. So, over the next twenty days, we’ll take a look at them and examine the lives behind the faces.