Card of the Day - 2021-10-16

now our cards of the day this week will be celebrating three things, the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the 150th anniversary of the first international match between England and Scotland in 1871, and the latest set of Royal Mail postage stamps being issued tomorrow (Tuesday 19 October). These feature eight major events in rugby history - the 1970, 1984 and 1994 Five Nations Championships, the 1998 Women’s Home Nations Championship, the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, the 2009 Women’s Six Nations Championship, the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup Final, and the 2015 Six Nations Championship, and include portraits of many notable names. And you can read more at https://blog.norphil.co.uk/2021/10/150th-anniversary-of-rugby-union-set-of.html

Saturday 16 October
O100-516 [tobacco : UK] Ogden "Famous Rugby Players" (1926) 14/50. These black and white cards cover English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Rugby Union and Rugby League footballers, cards 1 to 23 being Rugby Union, and 24 to 50 being Rugby League. Our man is Thomas R Hewitt and you can read more about him at http://en.espn.co.uk/timeline/rugby/player/3093.html  - which includes a link to his younger brother Francis Seymour Hewitt, who was also a rugby player.   Card 15 of this set shows another alumni of Queens College in Belfast, G.V. Stephenson. And you can see the College itself on Gallaher "Irish View Scenery" 173/600 - if you dont have a set to hand, just click along to : https://www.archiseek.com/2012/buildings-from-the-irish-views-series-by-gallaher/nggallery/page/2 (where it is third from the end). By the way, before we go any further, http://www.rugbyrelics.com is a great rugby themed shop site with some amazing items.