Card of the Day - 2024-08-13

Breygent Woodstock Generation
Breygent [trade/commercial : cards : O/S - Canada] "Woodstock Generation Rock Poster Cards" (2010) 28/49

Thanks to Mr. Bowen, who sent this scan to me when I was doing the camping week, and I immediately thought ooh Woodstock. So I suppose I ought to be thanking him for providing this week`s theme as well....

And if you think you missed all that fun of camping week, fear not, it is still online at https://csgb.co.uk/publications/newsletter/2024-06-29

By the way, the VW camper is not just shown on the front of this card, it is referenced on the text, including the fact that "Robert Hieronimus` famous work on the vehicle of Bob Grimm (of the band Light) shows up prominently in a number of photos of the Woodstock Festival". 

And there is a sequel to this story, which you can read at Missing The Bus

This set again follows the modern format, a set of base cards plus specials. The base cards are 49 in number and all are shown at the Trading Card Database/WoodstockGeneration.

However do be aware that not all of the cards are about Woodstock, the first eight are posters of other events, then there is a tribute to Bob Marley at cards 9, 10 and 11. Card twelve is the first one to directly reference Woodstock, and it shows Jimi Hendrix, who was the closing act, scheduled for about 8 pm on the Sunday, but actually performing some twelve hours later. 

The special cards are metal-gloss, album cards, and general promo cards. All of these can be seen at the Trading Card Database/WoodstockSpecials.

Breygent did make other trading cards, including tv tie ins for the series Dexter (2009), Grimm (2013 and 2015), and Bates Motel (2016). Before they concentrated on these, which I have to say are way too scary for me, they also made a very sought after set of The Wizard of Oz in 2006. There were promises of two more series of cards for Grimm, but they have never arrived. And then nobody seems to know what happened to Breygent, though if you look online there are all sorts of tales and rumours. 

And when I put in www.breygent.com to look for more information I was told that the domain was for sale, at $19,888 USD.