Card of the Day - 2022-01-19

This set does not appear in our most modern British Trade Index as it is post 1970, so the reference code is extracted from our British Trade Index Part Four, issued in 1997.

The cards in this set are from several Disney productions, including classic characters like Mickey Mouse and his friends, plus newer films like Oliver and Alice in Wonderland. However we do have Winnie The Pooh (22/25) and Tigger (23/25). To me, this Tigger is not as bouncy and fun as I would like, he looks more serious and tigerish.

There is another version of these cards, as they were also issued as a set of “double cards”, also in 1989, which were intended to be be trimmed to size to fit the special album. So you can actually find a card which has both Winnie the Pooh and Tigger on it together.

The rights to Winnie the Pooh were obtained in 1961 and Disney started to make films using the original images; the first film was “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree”, released in 1966. He was first animated in a more rounded, Disney style in 1977, but was subtly also Americanised; he also acquired a new friend called Gopher. After that came television series and films for the other characters, “The Tigger Movie” and “Piglet`s Big Movie”. And in 2018, the live action film “Christopher Robin” also came from the Disney stable.