Carreras Ltd Tobacco Advertising
Carreras issued a number of advertising packs, cigarette and trade cards, miniature packs, etc during the 1920s and 30s.
Carreras issued a number of packs of advertising playing cards, cigarette and trade cards, card games, miniature playing cards, dominoes, fortune telling cards, Alice in Wonderland and Happy Family cards during the 1920s and 30s.

Above: deck advertising Craven ‘A’ Cigarettes by De La Rue, 52 cards + 1 joker in box, mid-to-late 1940s. Image courtesy Matt Probert.


Scoop card game, c.1910


Above: Scoop card game promoting Black Cat Virginia cigarettes, c.1910. Courtesy Rex Pitts.

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.