Card of the Day - 2022-05-18

We said that this set was sometimes confused with Godfrey Phillips "First Aid" issued in 1923, however there are three main differences.

These were the number in the set (the 1923 version being double this, with 50 cards), the method of printing, (ours being lithographed and the 1923 being letterpress) and the colour of the reverse (ours being green and the 1923 being black)

This card is unintentionally amusing as it says “First Aid – Head Bandage” on the front but the text starts by telling us that “This bandage alone is useless as a first aid dressing. It is intended only to cover and keep in place any dressing”.

The equivalent in the 1923 set is card 47/50, entitled “Bandaging for the Scalp”, and the text again starts in a similar but less amusing way by saying “This bandage is used to keep dressing on the scalp.” That is not awfully grammatical, but it serves to illustrate the point. 

Now we featured this set for football a while ago, because of the little cartoon sketches in the background, and a lot of readers wrote to say they had not seen the card before, and had acquired one. This card features cricket, the ball has bounced over the wicket and hit some poor chap square on the head. I expect that happens a lot, but it is not so reported as in football nor boxing.