Arms and Flags (Honig)

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Amrs and Flags series (Honig)

Series information :

• Date of issue : 1910s ? (approx.)
• Number of cards : around 75
• Image variants : ?

Company

This is a large series of trade cards, showing the arms and flags of countries. The series is not dated, but based on the images on the cards, as well as the names of countries, can be dated as <1918. The series was printed in Holland, but the printer, nor the designer is known.

As trade cards the series was issued by a number of Dutch companies :

Honig

Kraepelien & Holm

Neelmeijer

Smith

Van Dijk

Paul Kaiser

As tobacco cards the series was issued by James in the UK.

As postcards the series was issued by EFA (the Excelsior Fine Art Company) for the UK market and by the Dutch firm Spit & De Vletter as appointment cards.

Series

For all known cards see here.

Some examples:

Bavaria

Russian Empire