Churchman cards

Two cards that I have acquired from the W. A. & A. C. Churchman series of fifty are caricatures of “Men of the moment in sport” by an artist who is signed as Mel. They are humorous but contain a nicely written information piece on the reverse. I have a larger Joe Davis card that could have come in a packet of cigars perhaps? I don’t know which other billiards related celebrities were featured but would be surprised if Walter Lindrum was not featured in this series of larger cards?

Churchman also produced a series of fifty cards entitled, “Sporting Celebrities” number nine featured a caricature of Walter Lindrum and must have appeared between 1929 and 1932, as the break that it mentions as Lindrums current best was under 4,137, which he made in 1932. I like this card a lot as the picture is colourful and uses the table light to good effect.

David Smith
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