In an effort to get a handle on this work of words I have turned to my trusty, Fowler, Modern English Usage, printed, with corrections, 1937. This tome being contemporary with cigarette cards. I did not check out those distinctions things were getting complicated enough. Believe it or not I am a fan of the process of reducing something to its bare essentials and then just presenting that. I can spend hours running through experimental web-design just wishing I could do something half as good.
Fashion runs through everything, cigarette cards are no different really.
There was a rash of caricature sets. There are a suprising quantity of sets with a caricature theme to them. Both series were of 50 cards, showing the leading footballers of the day. In the case of Football Caricature by Rip this was 1926 and followed a year later by Football Caricature by MAC . This manufacturer also produced Racing Caricatures which, unusually, was a 40 card series.