Texaco 1981 Calendar
"Collect all 14 super transfers to complete your calendar", says the envelope (not shown, but green — apparently).
We missed the auction for the above four sheets, but Bevy1703 kindly gave us permission to use the photos.
This series does beg some interesting questions: the events depicted seem very British (Fireworks in November & a beach scene in August, for example), yet the text on the sheets is very awkward for ordinary English.
Photos courtesy of murraycards51
And why the serial numbers SP-1 to SP-14? Letraset used "SP" for Special Sheets, but these are probably not Specials — & the numbers would be very much higher. It's unusual not to use "L", "PR" or "LP" at this date…
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- ← Sunlight Soap Tintin [1969]
- ← Ski-Doo Mini Transfers [1970]
- ← Buster Brown Rub-a-Doodles Time Machine / Jungle Adventure [1970]
- ← PR71 Burmah Oil Magic Transfers [1971]
- ← PR82 Texaco Gallery of Famous Cars (Veteran Cars) [1971]
- ← Procter & Gamble: Mr Propre (Veteran Cars) — Butterflies
- ← Republic of South Africa Stamps
- ← BEA & British Airways
- ← PR154 Elastoplast "Flags & Costumes of Europe" [1973]
- ← PR159 "Eco. de Normandie" [1973]
- ← Shell Vintage Car Transfers (Not Letraset)
- ← PR193 Duckhams Super Action Transfers [1974]
- ← Camberwick Green Toothpaste [1972]
- ← Lessive Bonux Lucky Luke (Dargaud) [1975]
- ← GK215 Popstar Watchits [1975]
- ← Centra Letraset Bird Transfers
- ← Kalkitos offert par Imperial (from "Animals of Africa" ©1975)
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