The first "September - issued" card of the week was this one, and I was delighted to acquire it, because we have already featured this very card, but it was issued twice. Now the reference books say that the second version was "redrawn", but I did not realise how spectacularly redrawn this card was. And you can see that for yourself, because we used the other version as our Card of the Day on the 16th of March 2024. And you will also find a biography of this player on that site.
In fact you can see all the "redrawn" cards courtesy of the Football Cartophilic Info Exchange/CFFR.
Now we know that the set was issued, originally, in September 1935, and the redrawing came later, which can plainly be seen on that page, as everyone looks older! So it may indeed be the case that the two cards swap places on our website, and the original, September, one comes here whilst this set is sent off to illustrate the word "Brook".
Our original World Tobacco Issues Index describes the pair as :
- FAMOUS FOOTBALLERS, Sm. Nd. ... C18-43
A. Nos. 1/48 with caption panel on front 3 m/m deep (48)
B. Nos. 25/48, subjects redrawn, caption panel 4 m/m deep (24).
The text is exactly the same in our updated version of that book, except for a new card code, of C151-250