Card of the Day - 2024-08-31

FKS football 1975
FKS [trade/commercial : cards ; UK] "Soccer Stars 1975-76" (1975) 348/360 - FAA-15

This card was a great link, but most of you are probably stumped.

The reason is a wonderful one, though, because there is an organisation called The Hummingbird Project, and it is linked to Coleraine Football Club in Northern Ireland.

It aims to reduce the stigma around emotional health and well-being, and to support the local people as well as their own players and staff 

Intriguingly, there are very few cards of this football club - even the Trading Card Database/Coleraine only lists seven, and four of those are from our set. I thought that this might mean it was a recent team, but no, it was founded on June 20th, 1927, out of two local teams, Olympic and Alexandra. 

I have found one other, Thomson`s "Football Towns and their Crests" (1931), presented with "The Skipper" magazine, which has four logos on each card, and on one of the cards you will find "Rotherham, Clydebank, Coleraine, and Durham". Sadly the cards are unnumbered. 

So if anyone has any other cards of Coleraine F.C., or its precursors, do please let us know! 

The really unusual thing about this set is that it comes from the age which is kind of  the missing link between cards and stickers; they are too thin to be classed as cards, and they lack the adhesive backs of a true sticker, for you had to buy your own glue to stick them them into place. And this is backed up by the front cover of the album which says "7 stamps for 4p". 

In our original British Trade Index part III this set is listed as : 

1975-2 Soccer Stars `75-`76 (A). 64 x 45. Nd. (360). Anonymous, back style as Fig. FAA-2, in vertical or horizontal format.  ... FAA-15

No FKS sets are listed in our updated British Trade Index, for that only covers issues up until 1970. However, there were sets issued before that time, "The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars" (1968) and "The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars in Action" (1969). 

You can see a list of all the FKS issues at NigelsWebspace/FKS, though, along with links to galleries and checklists.