A Set (Sans Serif)

Set facts

Cards

151

Numbering

#1–150

Printing

Color

About the set

• Issued in 1961. Colour, numbered A 1–A 150, 150 cards.
• Not sold in packs but as a bingo-style game called "Filmstjärnespelet – 5 kartor och 50 lösa kort". Each box held five boards with ten pictures each, plus 50 loose cards showing the same pictures.
• There were three boxes: one for No 1–50, one for 51–100 and one for 101–150.
• The game was for 2–6 players. A caller gave each player a board, shuffled the loose cards face down and turned them over one at a time, reading out number and name. Whoever had that picture on their board covered it, and the first full board won.

Variants and printings

• Every picture exists both as a loose card and as part of a bingo board.
• About 95 percent of the pictures are the same as in 1961 D Plain Text Set, on the same numbers. Only seven numbers differ: No 1, 14, 24, 34, 129, 131 and 141. The pictures on those seven also turn up in the 1962 TEVE Set.

How to recognise

• The number has an "A" in front, printed with a space and a dot, as in "A . 102", together with the star's name.
• The boards carry the same pictures with number and name. Pictures cut out of a board are common. They usually have uneven edges and are often shorter or narrower than a normal card, while a loose card has straight edges and full size.
• The colours are mostly brighter and clearer than on the same pictures in 1961 D Plain Text Set, which tend to look darker.
• Don't mix it up with the 1952 A and Ab Set, made about ten years earlier, or with the 1959 A Set (Serif), which also puts an A before its numbers.

Numbers to know

• The set as a whole is fairly uncommon, because it only came out as a game. No number is harder to find than the others.
• Collectors want the loose cards; cut-out board pictures count as the lesser version.

Double number

• #112 Pascale Petit / Louis Armstrong

Related sets

• 1961 D Plain Text Set: nearly the same pictures, sold in packs, darker in colour, with four extra Floyd Patterson double numbers.
• 1962 TEVE Set: has the seven pictures that are not in 1961 D.
• 1952 A and Ab Set: a much older set with the same letter.
• 1959 A Set (Serif): another set numbered with an A.