With no new releases in November, I thought I would have a closer look at a couple of leaflets that you may not see very often. These two were included in the box with models in the first two or three years.
The first one doesn't have any date or print reference but I think it may well have been the first leaflet, included from the launch as it features just those July 1956 models. It also refers to a pink slip, with which you could apply for membership of what was termed the Corgi Car Club and get the C.C.C. Certificate.
The Mechanical editions are all listed with the price 1/3d higher than the normal issue in every case. For those no familiar with British currency prior to 1971, we had pounds, shillings and pence. The pounds are as they always have been but were split into 20 shillings and a shilling was split into 12 pennies. The accepted form of display of a price was like 2/9, representing 2 shillings and 9 pence. An exact number of 2 shillings would be shown as 2/-, hence the 4/- shown for several models.
On your old boxes you may also see the price shown as 2/9d. Here the 'd' standards for the Latin denarius. Our old currency is often referred to as £sd which originally would have been librae, solidi and denarii although we only talked of pounds, shillings and pence.
One thing I noticed was the excellent quality of the artwork on these leaflets, especially this first.
The next is a leaflet printed in late 1957 and presumably included in boxes from early 1958.
This is interesting in that it includes the Pony Trailer which the Great Book of Corgi says this was issued in January 1958, but not the Platform Trailer, supposedly issued at the same time.
The Mechanical models are now just mentioned in a panel with rather less prominence than before and we are now encouraged to join the Corgi Model Club!
This leaflet has slightly less-detailed artwork but still very attractive illustrations and this lovely shade of blue for the Citröen caught my eye.
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