Now our second set was another football one, and there is a good reason, because it was taking so long to get the very light reverse wording readable that I ran out of time - and I had the Carr scan already, from a reader. I told myself it would be okay so long as I was to space them out a bit.Then I forgot.
Anyway this clue word was "riches" - as in "This year I would like to be rich". Not sure that was ever on my radar, and I should imagine it was not much fun anyway, because most people who are rich seem to be worried about other people taking it off them - and even worse they pay it all in the bank and never see it, let alone have any fun spending it, on themselves, or on people who would be grateful with a very small proportion of it.
Now this set is listed in our original World Tobacco Issues Index as :
"FOOTBALL TEAMS OF THE BAILIWICK. Lg. 70 x 58. Brown. Nd. (22). See RB.21/290.2".
That RB.21 code leads us to the last of the small reference books, that to British American Tobacco, and in there this set forms part of the group that are together called the "Guernsey Local Issues". Section 290 is "Football Series, four different series", and ours is set 2, described as :
FOOTBALL TEAMS OF THE BAILIWICK. Medium cards. Size 70 x 58 m/m. Front in brown. Back in brown, with series title and name of player. Numbered series of 22. Bucktrout issue.
Now there are a couple of questions here, the first being that it is suddenly reduced to "medium" size, and the second that it states "name of player" when there it perhaps ought to say "nameS of playerS", this being a set of teams.