DT92 ~ Card Set Details

CARD SET DETAILS

Comet Sweets
"Footballers and Club Colours" (1963)

Footballers and Club Colours

Year of issue: 1963

Teams represented in this collection:

Arsenal	Aston Villa	Blackburn Rovers	Blackpool	Bolton Wanderers
Brentford	Burnley	Bury	Cardiff City	Charlton Athletic
Derby County	Dundee	Everton	Fulham	Hibernian
Huddersfield Town	Ipswich Town	Leicester City	Leyton Orient	Liverpool
Luton Town	Manchester United	Middlesbrough	Newcastle United	Nottingham Forest
Plymouth Argyle	Preston North End	Queens Park Rangers	Rotherham United	Sheffield United
Sheffield Wednesday	Southampton	Stoke City	Sunderland	Swansea City
Torino	Tottenham Hotspur	Walsall	West Bromwich Albion	West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers

Overview

A nice set of cards in the style of the popular Barrett and Bassett sets given away with sweet cigarettes. Some images are taken from similar sets but the drawings are all of a good quality and likeness of the player.

The front of each card is a colour portrait of the player in their team colours, and a club crest. Ironically, given the name of the set, several of the players are sporting the colours of a different club to the one mentioned on the back. This is presumably due to players moving club and the artist not having time to change the card before going to press.

The back of each card is a composite of a template frame featuring the name and address of the company and set, and then the player's name, team and card number slotted in.

Cards fromthe set sell for around £1 each and a full set can fetch between £30 and £50 depending on the condition.

Example of a card:


Front of card		Back of card

Cards of interest:

Gerry Hitchens was one of the few English players to have a successful career abroad. Hitchens had moved from Aston Villa to Inter Milan in 1961 where he scored 17 goals in 39 games. He then moved to Torino in 1962 where he scored 28 in 89 appearances. He stayed in Italy until 1969 when he returned to play for Worcester City and then Merthyr Tydfil.

The artist clearly didn't have a Torino crest to hand so went with the three lions instead.

Several players were in the shirt of their previous club and with the previous club's crest.

For example, Billy McAdams had left Leeds for Brentford between the portrait being drawn and the copy being written for the back, and likewise Gerry Baker had left Man City for Hibs by the time the set appeared.

Andy Malcolm had left First Division Chesea for Brentford.

Conversley, freescoring Colin Booth had left Nottingham Forest for Doncaster with the back of the card noting he had been placed on the transfer list and the artwork reflecting his new club. Perhaps the copy was written while the artist was still working through the portraits from 1 to 50 so in this case he was able to reflect the new club.