Lighthouse Cigarette Cards - Seeing The Light

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Lighthouses have been saving the lives of seafarers for thousands of years. The Pharos of Alexandria is the earliest known lighthouse and was considered to be one of the seven wonders of the world. The traditional lighthouse is fast becoming a rarity as they become replaced by more sophisticated electronic navigation aids - radar beacons, radio beacons and satellite systems.

Maritime antiques are extremely popular on eBay and lighthouse cigarette cards are avidly sought after, especially since only a few sets were devoted purely to lighthouses. I've listed a small selection of cards sets containing lighthouses below. I've provided scans of a sample card from each set and I've tried to list as many card titles as possible.

Name Of Set: Lighthouses

Manufacturer: Liebig Extract of Meat Co

Issue Year: 1907

Card Number: 6

Card Titles: -

Name Of Set: British Lighthouses

Manufacturer: Societe Job

Issue Year: 1925

Card Number: 25

Card Titles: Longstone's Lighthouse, North Unst , Smalls Lighthouse, The Wolf Lighthouse, St. Catherine's Lighthouse, The Chicken Lighthouse, Skerryvore Lighthouse, The Bell-Rock Lighthouse, St. Anthony's Lighthouse, The Longships Lighthouse, The Flannan Lighthouse, The Bishop Rock Lighthouse, The High Lighthouse, Cromer Lighthouse, The Eddystone Lighthouse, Beachy Head Lighthouse, Maplin Lighthouse, Isle of May Lighthouse, South Foreland Lighthouse, North Foreland Lighthouse, Holyhead Lighthouse, Plymouth Breakwater Lighthouse, Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, Hartland Point Lighthouse, and Bressay Lighthouse.

Name Of Set: Lighthouses

Manufacturer: British American Tobacco

Issue Year: 1926

Card Number: 50

Card Titles: Anvil Point Lighthouse Swanage, Great Orm Lighthouse Llandudno, Skerryvore Lighthouse, North Unst Lighthouse North of Britain, Inner Farn Lighthouse, Portland Lighthouse, North Foreland Lighthouse, The Needles IOW, Old Lighthouse Removed to Avonmouth, Lizard Lighthouse, Dungeness Lighthouse, Spurn Head Lighthouse, Penninis Lighthouse St. Mary's ScillLundy Isle Lighthouse Disused, Landguard Lighthouse, Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Trevose Head Lighthouse, Smeaton Tower, St. Anthony's Falmouth, Godrevy Lighthouse, Dubh Artach Lighthouse, South Foreland Lighthouse St Margaret's Bay, Sea Houses Lighthouse, Pendeen Lighthouse, Round Island Lighthouse, Longships Lighthouse, St. Agnes Lighthouse Disused, Flannan Islands Light Station, St. Catherine's Lighthouse IOW, Chapman Lighthouse, Chicken Rock Lighthouse, Berry Head Lighthous Brixham, South Light Lundy Island, Flamborough Head Lighthouse, Early History, Longstone Lighthouse, Douglas Lighthouse, Souter Point Lighthouse, Cromer Lighthouse, Bell Rock Lighthouse, Eddystone Lighthouse, Whitby Lighthouse, Coquet Lighthouse, Beachy Head Lighthouse, Hartland Lighthouse Hartland Point, Bamborough Lighthouse, Corbiere Lighthouse, Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Lowestoft Lighthouse, and Barra Head Lighthouse.