This week, with autumn closing in, and some of us griping slightly about the wet and the cold we are going to remind you that as the leaves turn they become at their most beautiful, with many varied hues that you would be hard pressed to capture by painting or drawing them.
The inspiration for this thought is that on the 22nd of October, the same date every year, it is #NationalColorDay. And we hope that you will take the time to think about how to bring colour into your world, whether that be by the means of television, the internet, differently coloured fruit, and other foodstuffs, and even by taking more time to look outside your windows.
so our clue cards this week were :
Clue one: Saturday 19th of October 2024
A. & B.C. Gum [trade : gum : UK] "Footballers 1958" / "Topstars" (1958-59) 13/46 - AAB-310 : ABF-10-8
So here we have the first two colours of the rainbow - red, because this is Liverpool Football Club, "The Reds" - and yellow, used as the rather lurid backdrop behind our footballer.
Clue two : Sunday 20th of October 2024
W.D & H.O Wills [tobacco : UK - Bristol] "Garden Flowers New Varieties" 1st Series (January 1938) 12/40 - W675-179 : W62-41.1 : W/223
Here we have Dianthus, otherwise known as pinks. This is a very colourful card, though mostly shades of red and pink. And that reminds us that a garden can be made of many colours, but they harmonise together, and complement each other beautifully.
and lastly, came
Clue three : Monday 21st of October 2024
Anonymous [tobacco : O/S] "Billiards by Tom Newman"(1928) - ZB07-90 : ZB6-7 : RB.21/215-33.B
So to close out our clue cards, here is the green baize on a billiard table, and it also provides the main colour on the card. Not just that, but on all the cards in this series.
Note this not the usual back, this is the rarer anonymous version, issued abroad by British American Tobacco. The more usual one is by Ogdens Ltd, and says so in the top border.
On which note, if anyone else would like to send us any information from their collection which relates in any way to our theme of the week, or themes we have covered in the past, please do.The e-mail is webmaster@card-world.co.uk - and this is the same for any corrections, or for general cartophilic correspondence and chat.