For a change, we'll try something other than a postcard. This is a detail of a painting from a print source other than a postcard, that portrays a warship. The question is, what warship is it? To make answering the question easier, all that needs to be named is the class. Additionally, what print source is it from? Please post all answers to the message board. Ted Nigrelli was first with the name of the ship, King George V, and the source, a Tobacco Card. "My guess is heavily stylized British KGV-class BB, based on the A/B turret setup of 4 and 2 guns. The source might be a tobacco card??" Mark T. Dwyer took it a bit further with "I believe Ted is very close to the truth. I fully agree that it is a stylized representation of the KGV class, probably issued prior to the completion of the KGV itself, by Will's cigarettes, who had a tradition of including a card in each pack as part of their "The World's Dreadnoughts" sales promotion series." Actually the Will's Dreadnought Series was printed in 1912 and if present, it would have been a different King George V. This card is from the British Naval Craft Series of 1939 by Player's Cigarettes.

In 1939 John Player & Sons, producers of Player's Cigarettes and a branch of The Imperial Tobacco Company, LTD, produced two series of warship cards that were inserted into their cigarette packages. One set was of the warships of the world and consisted of 50 cards in the set. The other set called British Naval Craft featured cards about twice the size of the world warship series but there were only 25 cards in the set. King George V was card #1 in this set. This card did not appear in the warship of the world set. All of the illustrations were done by Frank H. Mason. The battleship was only launched in 1939 and apparently from the painting, the superstructure details were less than certain. 

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