Card of the Day - 2022-11-08

Amalgamated Press "Wonderful London" RAF
Amalgamated Press [trade ; publications ; UK] "Wonderful London" (16-10-1926) 16/24 - AMA-400 : AMC-26

This card shows the Royal Air Force Memorial and it comes from a set of medium sized cards (70 x 94 m/m) that were issued with the boy`s magazines "Triumph" and "Champion", each of which issued one card every week. This meant that at the end of twelve weeks you had a set of twenty-four card, but that you had been coerced to buy two magazines a week.

Since this newsletter went to press we have been contacted by a reader who has supplied a list of the dates of issue and the cards for each. I was not sure whether to stick to his listing, which is in order of issue, or to sort them out in number order. Perhaps one day both will appear! But for the moment, as I simply copied and pasted, it is in order of issue.

No. - date of issue (in magazine) - front title / back title
15. - 25 September 1926 (Champion) - Australia House
  1.  - 25 September 1926 (Triumph) - The Tower of London
18. -   2 October 1926 (Champion) - Buckingham Palace
  9. -   2 October 1926 (Triumph) - The Cenotaph
24. -   9 October 1926 (Champion) - Wembley Stadium
20. -   9 October 1926 (Triumph) - The Horse Guards Parade
  3. - 16 October 1926 (Champion) - The British Museum
16. - 16 October 1926 (Triumph) - The Royal Air Force Memorial
  8. - 23 October 1926 (Champion) - St. Paul`s Cathedral
13. - 23 October 1926 (Triumph) - Lord`s
22. - 30 October 1926 (Champion) - Marble Arch
14. - 30 October 1926 (Triumph) - The Houses of Parliament
  4.  -   6 November 1926 (Champion) - Tower Bridge
23. -   6 November 1926 (Triumph) - The Bank Crossing
11. - 13 November 1926 (Champion) - The Centre Court, Wimbledon
10. - 13 November 1926 (Triumph) - Westminster Abbey
19. - 20 November 1926 (Champion) - St. James` Palace
12. - 20 November 1926 (Triumph) - The Oval
21. - 27 November 1926 (Champion) - The Mansion House
  5.  - 27 November 1926 (Triumph) - London Bridge
17. -   4 December 1926 (Champion) - The Royal Artillery Memorial
  2.  -   4 December 1926 (Triumph) - The Bank of England
  7. - 11 December 1926 (Champion) - Trafalgar Square
  6. - 11 December 1926 (Triumph)  - The Victoria Embankment

It is an attractive set, but there are still many questions, the most pressing of which is whether it was actually issued in this country, or whether it was only issued in the Australian and New Zealand editions of the magazine. We know it was definitely issued over there, as it appears in the Australian and New Zealand Indexes, but proof of it being issued over here is much harder to find. And it being an Australian issue alone is also supported by the fact that the first card to be issued was Australia House.