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What's With the "Special" Color in Wild Flowers? There was
a "special" variation that came out in the Wild Flowers series for the US. The
cards are rather hard to come by. Most of the difference has to do with the
color. It's still blue, but a different shade. Some people call the color teal
while I have also heard turquoise. Both shades refer to a bluish-green. Another
funny thing about this off-shade is that it looks pretty much like the standard
blue if you look at it in fluorescent light. Looking at the two here, the
standard one is on the left while the "teal" one appears on the right. Why did they print these special cards? There's a question a few people would like to know. Maybe they ran out of the standard blue ink. Maybe they were experimenting. We don't even know if these cards were made at the first of the run, the middle or as a finale for the series. Wow, they look pretty darn similar, don't they. The sharp eye of an avid collector has found another difference. Once again, many thanks to Terry Calleyne of Ireland for pointing out that there is a definitive way to determine the special cards.
Hunting Tip: Take note of where I have underlined in
red in the picture above. That is the only place to
look. Don't be tempted to look at the other twenty-five cent symbol. Your
mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find a
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There are two places
where the card mentions the cost of an album. If you look at the French text,
you will see that the bar in the cent symbol is at an angle while (whilst
for the British in the crowd) the special one has a vertical bar. So in the
picture here, the top one is more common while the bottom one is rare. Thanks
Terry! Now even the color-blind can hunt for the rarer version! OK, now
that you know, go out and scour your cards. Don't forget, I am looking for them
for my personal collection and am willing to pay.
twenty-five cent
symbol where the bar on the cent is straight up and down, just like you see
here. It's a tricky difference but if you can find one (or more) like it, there
is