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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL
Back View - Examples
The back of each card in this series contains identical text,
in a vertical format printed in a shade of blue
(commonly), with the left side containing the standard
"Grind Your Coffee At Home" message explaining
the benefits of do-it-yourself grinding, and the right
side explaining what the series represents.
There's one variation in the text that I'm aware of. The
Explanatory message contains a reference to either or (note the
position of the apostrophe). I can confirm that all 50
cards exist with the Arbuckles' spelling, but so far I
haven't been able to identify all 50 with Arbuckle's, which seems to be much
scarcer than Arbuckles' (by about a 1:12 ratio in
my accumulation). In fact, I have yet to see any cards
numbered from 91-100 in the Arbuckle's variety. I've also noticed
that the cards with Arbuckle's most often seem to be
printed on a brighter, whiter stock than the others (or
at least they haven't been as susceptible to toning over
the years). The weight of the card stock seems to be the
same.
A similar variation exists in the text of the State Maps
series and, as with that set, I suspect that "Arbuckle's"
may have been a first printing and "Arbuckles'"
was a second printing.
Also, while almost all of the cards
in this series that I have, or have seen, have the text
printed in a shade of blue, I currently have six cards (#57
- England, #65 - Egypt,
#72 - German Empire, #77
- Newfoundland, #88 - Denmark, and #89
- Japan) that also exist with the
text in brown. These cards seem to be on a slightly
lighter weight stock than the standard cards. There
appears to be no difference in either the text itself
(all are the Arbuckles' variety)
or in the illustrations on the front of these cards, and
the copyright date is the same, 1889. Brown-backed
versions of #58 - Russia and #71
- Siberia are also known to exist. At this
point I don't know the origin of these cards, or if the entire series exists with the brown
text variation.
Blue Text
Brown Text
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TEXT
Left section: Grind Your Own
Right section:
EXPLANATORY.
The
series of cards to which this one belongs,
consists of 50, each card of which shows a
correct colored map, properly bounded, of one of
the chief countries of the world, and portrays
the peculiarities of industry, scenery, etc., of
each nation, in original pictures, true to
nature, made by the best modern artists. Every
package of Arbuckles' Coffee contains either one
of these cards, or one of our series of 50
Zoological cards, an equal number of which are
used in conjunction with the geographical cards,
both series being so distributed that every 100
pound case of coffee contains one hundred cards,
each one different from all the others. Teachers,
in the public schools, are unanimous in their
praise of our object lesson cards, and pronounce
them one of the happiest, and most impressive
mediums, for imparting instruction to all
classes of students.
Names of Countries represented: |
United States |
Belgium |
Canada |
Sweden & Norway |
Newfoundland |
Turkey |
Greenland |
Greece |
Mexico |
Portugal |
Central America |
Austro-Hungary |
The Guiana's |
Switzerland |
Venezuela |
Russia |
Bolivia |
Spain |
U.S. of Colombia |
Denmark |
Uruguay |
The Netherlands |
Paraguay |
Persia |
Brazil |
Siberia |
Peru |
Palestine |
Chili |
British India |
Ecuador |
Chinese Empire |
Argentine Rep'lic |
Japan |
Sandwich Islands |
Afghanistan |
Cuba |
Siam |
England |
Arabia |
Scotland |
Central Africa |
Ireland |
Egypt |
France |
Morocco |
Italy |
Cape Colony |
German Empire |
Australia |
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