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1957-1958 “Into Space” (A46-31)
Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation, Mills
Filtertips Cigarettes, Flemington, Queensland, Australia
Series Title: Into Space
Australian & New Zealand Index Number: A46-31
Manufacturer: Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation (Australia), Pty. Ltd.
Issued with: “Mills” Filtertips Cigarettes
Country: Flemington, Queensland, Australia
Number of Cards: 25
Card Numbering: 1 to 25
Type of Card: Cigarette Insert Card
Card Dimensions: 68.4 × 35.6 mm
Circa: 1957-1958
Checklist: Download
Mills Cigarettes
Mills Cigarettes are manufactured by the Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation (Australia), Pty. Ltd. located in Flemington, Queensland, Australia, a suburb of Sidney.
The Australian operations of Mills Cigarettes are a subsidiary of the Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation of Luton, England.
The announcement of the new company appeared in The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Queensland on 2/16/1953 in a page 5 article titled WILL MAKE SMOKES HERE
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Overview
During 1957-1958 timeframe, the Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation (Australia), Pty. Ltd., Flemington, Queensland, Australia, issued their 25-card set of “Into Space” cigarette insert cards. Printed for issue in Mauritius, this Overseas Issue set was issued with Mills Filtertips Cigarettes. The set was assigned the Australian & New Zealand Index Number of A46-31.
The fronts of the “Into Space” cards feature borderless rectangular color artwork. The artwork covers a wide range of historical aeronautical and aerospace events, plus artistic conceptual renderings of future envisioned spaceflight vehicles, equipment, and missions. The cards even provide a glimpse into the future with the building of a Space Station. The artwork for the cards are a mix of landscape and portrait formats. The image area of the cards are without captions except for three cards which label various parts of rockets, and space suits. The image area is surrounded by a off-white border.
The backs of the cards are represented on a off-white card stock printed with a light blue ink. The card backs feature the following vertical stack of six text elements that are centered horizontally on the card:
The following reference card shows the fronts and backs of a typical “Into Space” cigarette card.
Image-Guide
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Checklist ³
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| 1 | Wright Brothers Aeroplane | ||
| 2 | The First Airship | ||
| 3 | The First Hot Air Balloon | ||
| 4 | Gliding in the Alps | ||
| 5 | First Liquid Fuel Rocket | ||
| 6 | Jules Verne’s Moon Shell (Fiction) | ||
| 7 | “Laika,” The Sputnik Dog | ||
| 8 | Sputnik II in Flight | ||
| 9 | Sputnik II (Diagram Section) | ||
| 10 | Royal Navy “Sea Slug” | ||
| 11 | Space Ship Landing on the Moon | ||
| 12 | Jupiter “C” U.S. Rocket Satellite | ||
| 13 | Space Suit Diagram | ||
| 14 | Manned Rocket Returning to Earth | ||
| 15 | Diagram of U.S. Satellite Rocket | ||
| 16 | Rocket Booster Parts from Rocket | ||
| 17 | Second Stage Rocket Parting | ||
| 18 | Track of Satellite Around the Earth | ||
| 19 | Space Men Returning to Ship | ||
| 20 | Imaginary “A” Plane | ||
| 21 | Re-Fuelling Space Ship | ||
| 22 | Assembling a Station in Space | ||
| 23 | Radio Pictures of the Moon | ||
| 24 | Space Ship | ||
| 25 | Royal Navy Sea Slug in Action | ||
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