And this card closes the week with an actual fingerprint. Except that this is a replacement card, for the original was A & M Wix`s "This Age Of Power & Wonder" (1935) 192/250. And we already had a card from that set.
We asked for assistance, and were told of other cards, Sandwell Crime Prevention No 15 - and Barratt Interpol No.3. However we were then sent this scan by a reader, and look, it mentions William Herschel on the back. How perfect is that!
Like the Wix card there is no identity to say whose fingerprint this is, something I find very intriguing. Was it just an office worker at Topps, immortalised for all time? Or was it someone famous, though in that case I imagine they would have wanted to be credited with their name on the reverse. Famous folk are like that.
Now "Great Scott" was a set of only ten cards showing technological advances, and it seems to be quite scarce in this country. The cards are :
1. X-Ray Diffraction
2. Big Bang
3. Polio Vaccine
4. Large Hadron Collider
5. Artificial Heart
6. Deoxyribonucleic Acid
7. Continental Drift
8. Search Engine
9. Fingerprints
10. Dolly the Sheep
Unusually we were originally told that only these ten cards were issued, not any of those awkward autograph/relic extras to hunt for. However a bit of research now says that this was actually a sub-set of a much larger set of 350 cards which did include all the paraphernalia. So if anyone can add a bit please do.
We would also be intrigued as to why this set was called "Great Scott"