Card of the Day - 2022-10-29

This first clue ought to have led you to a Chaplin moustache, which was the sort sported to great effect by the comedian Charles Chaplin.

There is lots of information to follow about this set, but the cards were issued in batches, and every time a group was added the total number on the reverse was updated. Actually this card says "nearly 500" but there is a limit to our title. They are slightly smaller than standard at 63 x 35 m/m. 

I can show you a packet of the "Clips" brand cigarettes, at a most fascinating website entirely devoted to these cards - it is called copesclipsfootballcards  - and it even has the original insert that showed the Robert Crompton medal. You can also read about this at the Football Cartophilic Exchange/Crompton 

Robert Crompton was a native of Blackburn and only played for his local club, Blackburn Rovers - he managed them too. And it is he, un-named, who appears on Ogdens "Football Club Colours" (1906) 27/50