1983 Cartophilium
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First day of issue: 1983
Width: 103 mm
Height: 193 mm
Location: Hockey card: Cartophilium #1
Stamp ID = 7922

The 1983 Cartophilium postcards were sold in sets of 16. This is set "C" consisting of the following 16 players


Miscellaneous shows Jean Beliveau
Miscellaneous shows Max Bentley
Miscellaneous shows King Clancy
Miscellaneous shows Babe Dye
Miscellaneous shows Ebbie Goodfellow
Miscellaneous shows Charles Hay
Miscellaneous shows Percy LeSueur
Miscellaneous shows Tommy Lockhart
Miscellaneous shows Jack Marshall
Miscellaneous shows Lester Patrick
Miscellaneous shows Bill Quackenbush
Miscellaneous shows Frank Selke
Miscellaneous shows Cooper Smeaton
Miscellaneous shows Reginald "Hooley" Smith
Miscellaneous shows James T. Sutherland
Miscellaneous shows Fred Whitcroft

In 1983, the Sherbrooke-based company, Cartophilium, issued a set of 240 postcards featuring every member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1985, the company released the same set in the standard 2.5" x 3.5" card size. The 1985 cards had a 1983 copyright in the lower right corner of the back side of the card. In Montreal, the cards were available through a promotion with The Gazette newspaper, where you could order them by mail or pick them up at the newspaper's office. The Gazette sold the cards in 12 different series of 20 cards each. In 1987, Cartophilium rereleased the set and added 21 new cards featuring the newly elected members of the Hall of Fame. The 1987 cards had no copyright date on the back of the card. The newer versions of the cards had year-by-year statistics for every player; the original versions did not. The cards feature the artwork of Carlton McDiarmid, who, in addition to being a talented artist, was also a goal judge at the Montreal Forum. See "Captured on Canvas" for more details.