Here we have Leonard Stanley Duquemin, born in Guernsey, but shown here whilst playing for Tottenham Hotspur, which he joined at the start of 1946. As for the clue, well that was on the reverse of the card where it it tells you his nickname was "Duke".
He was born in July 1924, and though, as shown here, he played for Tottenham Hotspur, he was actually born in Guernsey - in fact, today, he is regarded as pretty much the first Channel Islands footballer to make it big in England.
He was one of a large family, his parents eventually having ten children, some before he was born and some after. He started his footballing career in Guernsey, under strange circumstances, for the occupying German Forces allowed the men to play football. Now they invaded in 1940, when he was sixteen, and stayed until 1945 . He must have come to the United Kingdom shortly after that, for at the start of 1946, after a successful trial, he was signed by Tottenham Hotspur - which seems to be the only team for whom he appears on cards. Not that many, either, the Trading Card Database /LDuquemin only having nine.
He left Tottenham Hotspur towards the end of 1958, and made a few appearances for other, smaller teams. Then he decided to retire for good, and bought a newsagents not too far away from the Tottenham ground. Eventually he did move away, to Barnet, where he ran a public house. He died in 2003, aged seventy-eight.
Our original British Trade Index part II tells us that this set is from the "Footballers Grouping" which appears in full with the Card of the Day for October 19 2024, simply because that was the first football set ever to be issued by A & B.C. Gum, in 1958-1959. All the other sets are tackled like today`s, in as much as they simply repeat their section of the listing, and not how it interacts with the other sets.
Now today`s card can be found in three different styles - and these are listed as :
FOOTBALLERS GROUPING (A). Md. or Lg. 8 backs illustrated at Fig. ABF-10. Nd. ... ABF-10
8. Portrait with crest added. Back 8, number in red circle. (92) Album issued.
A.89 x 64, back in (a) black and red (b) blue and red
B. 94 x 64, back black and red. Front inscribed "Send your name ... to Planet Ltd... N.W.1"
There is a problem with this list though, because the cards we show one of as our Card of the Day here are listed as section 8.A.b, but they were actually the third version to be issued.
First to be issued were the cards described here as 8.B, with the inscription to the front - you can see one of those as our Card of the Day for the 19th of October, 2024 - this was printed in the top border, and it was to be cut off and sent away to get your album - hence the shorter cards, listed here as section 8.A.a are only shorter because they have had the top margin, with the inscription, completely cut off, only leaving them with three borders, the bottom and the sides.
Then, later on, our set appeared, as a re-issue, in the format we show here, and in the same size that the mutilated cards ended up as, but with four, equally sized borders, and without the printing with the album offer. Luckily they also had blue and red backs, so we know these are set 8.A.b above.