So here was your starter clue to this week`s theme, which was amazingly bang on for iced tea month.
And we started with a bit of a puzzler in many ways, because though the set is listed under Liptons Tea Ltd, the write up says that it is an anonymous issue, but you only have to look at the bottom of the front to see that large Lipton logo in bright red. So that makes me wonder if either the first card seen, which formed the basis of the description, was trimmed, and that sadly often happens when the cards are longer than usual - or there was an anonymous set without the red logo. Anyone know?
Now on Saturday I also prophesied that the plain back might mean it was a package issue, printed on the carton to be cut out at home? My suspicions aroused by the surface of the reverse being rather rougher than I thought it would be if it had been a card inserted inside the packet.
And that could also explain why it was plain backed, because to get a back and a front to line up exactly in the right place is quite a task.
It is definitely one that defeats me, who cannot get even get the front and back facing the same way up if I print on both sides for a letter.
By the way the reference to HL-39 takes you to the Handbook, where it lists the footballers in the set, because they are not numbered. If I cannot find a link online to this info I will scan that section for the newsletter.