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Set Name : WA Player Postcards
- Set : T63
- Year : 1920cc
- Brand name : Public Opinion Print
- Size (mm) : 150 x 100
- Rarity : 10
- Number of Items : 4 known
- Comment : Description courtesy of WAFL Collectables - First discovered by collectors in 2018, only three cards from this rare set of postcards have emerged. The first two cards were made for S.D. Rash Drapery Store, which was located across the road from the Fremantle Train Station and boasted it was West Australias keenest bargain centre. The third was made for Phil Coyle, who claimed to be the only agent in Perth for No. 10 Whisky and whose cellars were at the corner of Barrack St and St George's Tce. All three cards featured black & white photographs with hand colouring and were printed by Popular Opinion Print, which was based in Rokeby Rd in Subiaco. The date of production could well have been 1920 because of two things - first, the careers of the three players featured on the cards only overlapped from 1920 to 1923; and second, during that period, South Fremantle only wore a jumper with vertical stripes (as worn by Bateman in one of the photographs) in 1920. That said, the jumper featured on the postcard of Subiaco's John Beasley had not been worn by the Maroons since 1913, so the jumpers may be a red herring. Whatever the case, they were certainly made between 1920 and 1923.
