Cigarette Card

Wills’s Cigarettes “Wonders of the Past” Cigarette Card #24 “Pagoda of Poh-sz-Tah”

Produced in 1926 by W. D. & H. O. Wills.

Issued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“The word “pagoda” is derived from the Buddhist “dagoba.” meaning a relic-shrime, and so properly applies to the bell- or dome-shaped monuments of Ceylon and Burma. The typical Chinese and Japanese towers, to which the word is almost confined to-day, would seem to have a different origin; in Chinese they are called “taa.” They are octagonal and have an odd number of storeys. The Poh-sz-tah pagoda, at Suchow, capital of Kiang-su province, and so miles N. of Shanghai, is one of the finest in China; it was built in 1983, is 250 feet high, and has nine storeys.”