Newsletter - 2023-05-20

Wow its Saturday, again!

So lets start by hoping you had a great week, and managed to find some cards, or some information about the ones you already had? 

Remember that if you do pick up any good cards, and you would like to tell everyone about them, or you want to share information about sets we feature or you are researching, or even if you want to ask us for assistance, please do.

We had quite a bit of correspondence this week about the last newsletter. First of all, thanks to reader Andrew Walters, who also supplied the top two links which follow, we now know that the "Stars and Cars" set I featured as a Card of the Day, and that I credited to Monty Gum, is instead by Maple Leaf Gum, or Maple Leaf Chewing Gum, though it is also of the Netherlands.

We also learned that in fact Maple Leaf opened the earliest chewing gum factory in Holland, founded in 1948 in Amsterdam.

You can read a bit more at  

http://www.moviecard.com/bat/anon-moviecar.html 
https://imageevent.com/halpen/1966mapleleafholland
https://maple-leaf.nl/oud/kim.htm

I was also told that Maple Leaf issued another set of very interesting car related items, these being  miniature number plates from across the World. I did not know of these when I mentioned number plates before but I will add the information in. These were also, even better, (though maybe not if you bit one by mistake), made out of metal, just like a number plate, but they were really tiny, just under three inches by one inch.

Looking under Maple Leaf in our reference books still draws a blank for our set of stars and cars, but this is another trail to chase.

And are there any Maple Leaf collectors and researchers who would like to join in? 

By the way, you can see the original post at https://csgb.co.uk/cardoftheday/2023-05-12

So what have we for you this week?

Well lets start with a curious case of mistaken identity ..... or not 

well there you have it, another newsletter, all ready for the press. I do hope you will celebrate a few of these days, however you choose, and explore some things that you are only discovering for the first time because of this.

And dont forget to pop back again next week to see what else we have discovered.