Rule #33 : When you have no spare time, just post some nice pictures ;-)
I once declared to a friend - a fellow rugby memorabilia collector - that I will never start collecting cigarette cards... Indeed, it appears to be an endless task and some of the rarest (and most beautiful...) cards could cost an arm and a leg...
Yet... cigarette cards regularly bring nice rugby illustrations, quality portaits of players, vivid colours among B&W photographs and a good understanding of what rugby was about in the 1900s...
Say, I don't collect rugby cigarette cards... but do have a few hundreds of them now...
So... here is a series of 10 rugby cigarette cards published in 1912 by Gallaher (London and Dublin), part of "100 designs Sports Series"
Back of the cards are self-explanatory like "slow and lob passes are useless" or "tackling must not be mild and half-hearted"...
And I've also packed the cards into a 1min video... Enjoy!
