A collection of 91,500 cigarette cards has been accumulated by Mr Eli George Home, railway guard, employed on the motor rail service between Bletchley and Cambridge, .England, and he is-a nonsmoker! Travellers contribute to his collection, and no card is a duplicate. He has 895 complete sets. The cards are stored in cigar boxes, are bound separately, and he keeps an index, if he gets a duplicate he gives it away to his young friends. This collection is not a record, for Mr F. D. Holmes, of Plymouth, claims to possess 600,000, and Mr Ernest Harrod, of Godshill, Hampshire, has 120,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 13
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101Page 13 Advertisements Column 6 Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 13
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