Tuesday 3 March 2015

Some panes have gone

I only have  a small collection of the XL Series cards - probably about 200 - but there appears to be a disproportionally large number of these that have the same image used more than once compared to some of the other publishers' cards.

If you come across an XL Series card that has a number with a 'R', 'V' or 'A' then there is almost certainly another version of it out there with a different caption. This is quite useful so you can keep an eye out for the variant.

However, I recently came across an example which doesn't have any of these extra letters appended to the number. The following two cards are both published as XL Series No. 2165: