Card of the Day - 2022-08-03

John Player Cycling
P644-664 : P72-216 : P67B : RB.17/67B [tobacco : UK] John Player "Cycling" (May 1939) 39/50

We have featured this set before but this is a slightly different version. In fact the set has three variant printings, but the way to tell them apart is quite easy, for the reverse of the standard UK issue (A) has the Imperial Tobacco clause and mentions the album - whilst the Irish issue (C) has the Imperial Tobacco clause but does not mention an album, though they are easier to spot than that because they have giant green numbers on the back - and our version issued in the Channel Islands and Malta (B) looks exceptionally blank around the edges as it has neither the Imperial Tobacco clause nor mentions the album.