A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush, 1938 (colour litho)

If a hunter has shot one bird, he should be satisfied with that and not go off looking for the ones that flew away; this proverb means that it is better to accept something small than to reject it and hope to get more later on; from a series of cigarette cards 'Up-to-Date Proverbs' issued by the Bocnal Tobacco Company, London; the golden age of cigarette cards was from the late 19th century until the Second World War and were immensely popular both as collector items and as a source of instruction, entertainment and amusement before the widespread use of television and radio;