Kojak bubble gum cards
Bubble gum cards featuring stills – mainly of Telly Savalas – from the cult TV series Kojak.
Telly Savalas (1922-1994) will for ever be associated with the role of the TV detective Kojak. He is featured in almost all of the stills from the series included in this set of bubble gum cards. Apart from the Jokers, the designs are all double-ended. The indices on the court cards are unusual: K for King, D, Q and V for Queen (i.e., in French, English and Dutch), and J and B for Jack (English and Dutch only). The back design is in black on grey which suggests a date of 1978 for this set, there being an earlier set with red backs (1976).
Above: Kojak bubble gum cards published by Monty Gum, Leiden, the Netherlands, 1978. 52 cards + 4 Jokers. Size: 48 x 78 mm.
The name Monty is a reference to Field Marshal Montgomery (“Monty”), the business having been started shortly after the end of World War II.
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Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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