Non-Arbuckle - Sports & Pastimes

Although the cards in the Sports & Pastimes series bear an Arbuckle copyright dated 1893, their designs were also used (presumably several years later) by several European companies.

I currently have quite a few examples for the Dutch/Belgian firm of Van Leckwyck, the English firm of Thomas Holloway (English and Spanish versions), and the French firms (or products) of A. Cardon Duverger, Avoyne & Poulain, Émile Bonzel (Chicorée a la Bergère), Chicorée Lervilles, H. Sergent, Chocolat Besnier, Chocolat Carpentier and Tapioca de L'Etoile. Jerry Anderson has provided images of several more Holloway's cards and another collector, Ian Woodyard, has supplied me with images of cards from the German/French store of A. Dreyfus.

Holloway's English language cards appear to use the original Arbuckles' text (or close to it) to describe the featured country, while their Spanish language cards carry an approximate translation, usually somewhat abridged. The Bonzel, Duverger, Chocolat Besnier, and Lervilles cards used a similar French text. Van Leckwyck, Sergent, Tapioca de L'Etoile, Avoyne & Poulain, and Dreyfus simply filled the back with a standard advertisement for their companies. The Chocolat Carpentier cards have blank backs. The two Holloway's versions are the only ones of the thirteen that specifically indicate that they produced the entire series of 50, though it seems likely the others did, as well.

Examples of these cards may be seen by clicking on the country links or the individual check marks in the table, below:

A.
Cardon Duverger

A.
Dreyfus

Avoyne & Poulain

Chocolat
Besnier

Chocolat
Carpentier

Émile
Bonzel

H.
Sergent

Holloway's
(English)

Holloway's
(Spanish)

Chicorée
Lervilles

Tapioca
de
L'Étoile