Country of Issue: Belgium
Year of Issue: 1953
Color/B&W: B&W
Number of Cards in Set: approximately 70
Card Size: 1 3/4" x 2 3/4"
Issued as insert with what product: Gum
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Issuing Company: Star Gum Works Country of Issue: Belgium Year of Issue: 1953 Color/B&W: B&W Number of Cards in Set: approximately 70 Card Size: 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" Issued as insert with what product: Gum |
Notes: Checklist incomplete. Blank-backed, unnumbered.
This set was listed among the anonymous sets on the Moviecard Website for a long time. The only thing I knew about it was that I got one card from this set among a group of cards from Belgium, so I assumed it was issued in Belgium. Belgian collector Pascal Matthys confirmed that this set was issued in Belgium and offered lots more information about this set.
According to Pascal, this set was issued by "Star Gum Works, one of the Belgian Chewing Gum companies from Antwerp. SGW did several series, great quality stuff (their cards were the Rolls Royce of chewing gum cards back then, but hard to find as their products were more costly than their competition like the "Belgian Chewing Gum" company), but ever so hard to deduct what company etc! They never put any company info on their cards. To add to that, they also had either NO numbering or a very chaotic numbering. You really have to be a specialist regarding the other Belgian Chewing gum factories and their cards to know what card is from which company and series. Luckily I know :p"
"Anyway, this is their first set of movie stars that they have made, released in 1953 and unnumbered. Issued with chewing gum (of course), and about 70ish cards were made."
To add the final proof, Pascal sent an image of a wrapper for this set. The wrapper for this set shows a picture of an Esther Williams card from the set. Wrappers for most card sets don't show a picture of an actual card from the set, so this was airtight proof and also a very interesting wrapper. The wrapper is shown when you click the small picture above.
Click the picture above to view a picture checklist of this set.
Thanks to Pascal Matthys and Andrew Knight for help with this checklist.
Anne Baxter
Joan Bennett
Ann Blyth
Ann Blyth
Adrian Booth
Karin Booth
Bobby Breen
Geraldine Brooks
Vanessa Brown
Phyllis Calvert
Corinne Calvet
Helena Carter
Joan Caulfield
Joan Caulfield
Gary Cooper
Joseph Cotten
Linda Cristian
Patricia Dainton
Linda Darnell
Bette Davis
Doris Day
Doris Day
Yvonne de Carlo
Yvonne de Carlo
Yvonne de Carlo
Yvonne de Carlo
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
Paula Drew
Dale Evans
Mona Freeman
Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson
Verginia Grey
Monte Hale
June Haver
Wanda Hendrix
Danny Kaye
Deborah Kerr
Dorothy Kirsten
Alan Ladd
Hedy Lamarr
Dorothy Lamour
Peter Lawford
Catherine McLeod
Adele Mara
Ann Miller
Patricia Neal
Maureen O'Sullivan
Janis Paige
Eleanor Parker
Larry Parks
Jean Peters
Jane Powell
Patricia Roc
Estrelita Rodriguez
Roy Rogers
Gail Russell
Jane Russell
Frank Sinatra
Esther Williams
Esther Williams
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