25 German cig. cards: The Imperial Prussian/German Army to 1918, issued in 1934

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Offered here are 25 German cigarette cards of the Imperial German / Prussian Army up to 1918 (end of WWI), issued in 1934 by the Eckstein-Halpaus and Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Companies for the album
Das Reichsheer und seine Tradition
(The German Army and its Tradition). Pictured here are:
No. 11:
Field Marshal von Hindenburg inspects his regiment, the Second Masurian Infantry Regiment No. 147 “Field Marshal von Hindenburg”.
No. 21:
Second Silesian Field Artillery Regiment No. 41 on the march through thick sand.
No. 22:
The Third East Prussian Field artillery Regiment No. 79 at Brzeziny on November 24, 1914.
No. 35:
Heavy Machine Gun Company of the Fifth Prussian Infantry Regiment out of Stettin, Neuruppin, Rostock and Greifswald.
No. 36:
First Pommeranian Grenadier Regiment No. 2 "Friedrich Wilhelm IV" Storming an Enemy Position at the Battle of Lower Lochov (June 29, 1866).
No. 90:
Second Brandenburg Engineering Battalion No. 28 during the Breakthrough at Brzeziny on November 23, 1914.
No. 101:
Third Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 102 “King Ludwig III of Bavaria” at the Battle of Armentieres (April 9 – 18, 1918).
No. 110:
First Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 26 “Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau” at the Battle of Koeniggraetz (July 3, 1866).
No. 113:
Machine-Gun Unit in a Firefight.
No. 115:
Fourth Rheinland Infantry Regiment No. 30 “Count Werder” firing at the retreating enemy.
No. 122:
Mansfeld Field Artillery Regiment No. 75 Crossing the Maas River (August 1914).
No. 123:
The First Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 lining up for a parade.
No. 138:
First Wuerttemberg Grenadier Regiment No. 119 "Queen Olga" at the Battle of Villers-Champigny (Nov. 30, 1870).
No. 148:
The Eighth Baden Infantry Regiment No. 169. “Let’s go! March, March!”
No. 149:
Musicians of the 15th Infantry Regiment out of Kassel, Giessen, Weimar and Marburg on the Lahn River.
No. 283:
Ninth Prussian Cavalry Regiment out of Fuerstenwalde and Beeskow transporting machine guns.
No. 285:
First Guard Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland" at the Battle of Mars la Tour (August 16, 1870).
No. 286:
The Second Guard Dragoon Regiment "Empress Alexandra of Russia" and the Third Guard Regiment of Foot Parading the Standards.
No. 294:
Sharpshooters of the Second Brandenburg Ulan Regiment No. 11 "Count Haeseler" at the Battle of Cambrai (September 23-24, 1918).
No. 295:
12th Saxon Cavalry Regiment out of Dresden, Grimma and Grossenhain on the Attack.
No. 297:
The Guard Cavalry Regiment (First Heavy Calvary Regiment) “The Lord’s Watch”.
No. 299:
The Second Hussar Regiment No. 19 “Crown Prince Wilhelm of the German Empire and Prussia” on the attack at the First Battle of the Somme on September 2, 1914.
No. 305:
14th Cavalry Regiment out of Ludwigslust, Parchim and Schleswig singing a cavalry song.
No. 310:
Members of the First Rhenish Husar Regiment No. 7 "King Wilhelm I", the Ninth Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 160 and the Rhenish Heavy Cavalry Regiment No. 8 "Count Gessler" in Bonn.
No. 317:
17
th
Bavarian Cavalry Regiment out of Bamberg, Ansbach and Straubing on the march through Bamberg.
On the back of each card at the bottom are directions on how people collecting these pictures in the 1930s could get the album for the pictures. The cards from the Waldorf-Astoria Co. read: "You can get the album for these 328 pictures for 1 Reichsmark at any cigarette store or by paying that amount to the following Post Office checking account: Munich 1979." Please note: the number "1979" here is
not
a date/year, but a postal account number.
Each card measures 2 and ½ inches by 2 inches.
With multiple purchases, please wait for the invoice for reduced shipping.