Card of the Day - 2022-02-08

TEA-030.1 : TAR-1 [trade : UK] Teachers Highland Cream [whisky] "Scottish Clans and Castles" (1955) Un/24
Teachers Highland Cream [ [trade : whisky : UK] "Scottish Clans and Castles" (1955) Un/24 - TEA-030.1 : TAR-1

These circular cards measure about 80 m/m diameter, and were intended to be used as a beer-style mat beneath your whisky. This set is recorded in our original British Trade Index part two, as a set of twelve, issued in 1969. There are two varieties, TAR-1.A which are named for "Teachers Highland Cream", and TAR-1.B which are named for "Teachers Highland Cream Scotch Whisky". The cards in both versions are the same apart from three which have differences in the wording: 

  • Clan Macdonell of Inveraray Castle from 1.A is altered to Macdonnell in 1.B

  • Clan Macdougall of Dunolly Castle is renamed as above to Dunollie

  • Clan Macneil of Mismull Castle is renamed as above to Mismul. 

Our British Trade Index part three of 1986 corrects the above in several ways, most importantly that the full name of the issuer Wm. Teacher & Sons Ltd, Glasgow does not actually appear on the first two groups. In addition Mismull Castle should read Kismull Castle and be altered to Kismul in TAR-1.B - and that the pictures in set TAR-1.B had been redrawn.

Another addition in the British Trade Index part three records that more cards had been issued in 1970, after the publication of our British Trade Index part two. These twelve cards were numbered 13 to 24, and their backs were different, they had a rectangular text giving the firm's full name. These have the reference code of TEA-030.2 : TAR-1.2