Card of the Day - 2022-09-03

Cohen Weenen  & Co. "Football Captains 1907-8"
Cohen Weenen [tobacco : UK] "Football Captains 1907-8" Series No.5 (1908) Un/60 - C633-370 - C102-31: H.94

Here we have A. Hitch of Watford, formerly with Queens Park Rangers, in a very curious and colourful strip, which was only worn between 1901 and 1909, though the same colours and stripes were worn vertically from 1898 until 1901. You can see all their kit changes online. There have been a lot! 

At the time our card was issued Watford played at Cassio Road. They moved to their current ground at Vicarage Road in 1922. Now the reason for the card was that I noticed that the Vicarage Road ground was included in the Open House, but I cant find it now and it isn`t on the official map. Things were much easier when they issued a book, I find the website a bit hard to navigate. Anyway if you got Open House Weekend from this well done, and do let us know the link if you found it!

By the way the H.94 code goes to a page of the Handbook which tells us the names of all the cards in the set because they are un-numbered. I will get that uploaded some time.

The reference to "Series No.5" is also rather odd, but it is just that between 1904 and 1909 Cohen Weenen started to add this "Series No." to their sets. Series 1 was "Naval and Military Phrases" (1904), Series 2 "Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers" (1906), Series 3 another set titled as series 2 (1907), Series 4 "Star Artistes" (1907), Series 5 "Football Captains 1907-8", and Series 6 "Wonders of the World" (1908).