![O100-464 : O/2-122 [tobacco : UK] Ogden "AFC Nicknames" (1933) 3/50](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/02%20barnsley.jpg?itok=QxFkV29A)
Clue Number One was this card for Barnsley F.C., and amongst their nicknames is “The Tykes”. you may think this is a bear, but look closer, he has a tail like a dog. It turns out that "Tyke" is a northern dialect word, centuries old, for a dog of low breeding, or sometimes a person, if the teller is being rather unkind. Tyke is also the son of Spike, the bulldog in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. And Churchill, the man of the week, was nicknamed the British Bulldog”, so much so that if you look online you will find photos and postcards of Churchill with bulldogs, or creepily, with his head on a bulldog`s body
This set first appears in our original RB.15, the guide to Ogden`s issues, printed in 1949. There it is described as :
15. 50 A.F.C. NICKNAMES. Humorous Sketches on Club colours. Fronts printed by letterpress in colour. Backs in grey, with descriptive text. Home issue, 1933. Similar series issued by Hignett.
You can see the Hignett version as our card of the day for the 21st of May 2022.
In our World Tobacco Issues Indexes, this text is very reduced, to just "A.F.C. NICKNAMES Sm. Nd. (50)" Though they do add "See Ha.571.2" but that is just a list which shows all the sets which were issued both by Ogden`s and by Hignett, rather than adding any more information about the set.