Calendar Set

About the set

• Issued in 1961. Cumulus both produced and published it.
• 174 cards spread over the numbers 101/61 to 344/61, with several blocks of numbers left empty.
• It carries on from the 1959 Calendar Set in the same style, with the text on the back.
• The photos are printed in one tone, not full colour: either a grey (black-and-white) tone or a pink tone. The pink cards are a duplex print.

Variants and printings

• No 101–200 exist in both tones, grey and pink. The three Monroe cards come in both.
• Pink only: 211–220, 241–250, 261–270, 281–290, 301–310, 321–330 and 331–340.

How to recognise

• The numbers carry the year: 101/61, 102/61 and so on.
• Framed pieces reading "Bild-Kalendarium Nr 47" or "Nr 50" with "Aktuella Film- och Scenidoler", and "BK-Serien nr 9" with "Film-o. Scen-IDOLER", belong with the set. Whether they are cards or packaging is unclear.

Numbers to know

• The most wanted cards are the three of Marilyn Monroe: No 177 (with Tony Curtis), 179 and 180.
• No 331–344 are much harder to find than the rest of the set. Within that run, No 338 Michael Landon and No 344 Peter Palmer are extremely rare, the hardest cards in the set.
• The boxing cards, No 301–310 and 321–330, are harder than average.
• The easiest numbers are 131–200 (apart from the Monroe cards) and 241–250. No 101–130, 211–220, 261–270 and 281–290 are a little harder.
• No 343 and 344 both come from the film "Knallhatten".
• A few names are spelled oddly in listings of the set: "Jesse Matthews" (125), "Edvard G. Robinson" (173), "Bernhard Miles" (246, but "Bernard Miles" at 125) and "Mike Landon" (265). Since the fronts carry no names, whether the cards themselves use these spellings is unclear.

Related sets

• 1959 Calendar Set: the earlier set in the same style; this one continues it.

Never issued · 70

#201–210, #221–240, #251–260, #271–280, #291–300, #311–320