Reply With QuoteMy earliest recollection of 'Mr Magpie' was from the top of the Football Post when I became a Notts fan in the 1950's.
This particular edition is from January 1st 1955, the headline recording Jimmy Jackson's 4 goals in our 5-1 win against West Ham
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Do any of the older fans on here know much about the origins of the old bowler hatted magpie? I don't think it was ever a club badge, but it was clearly a very popular emblem for the club right up until the sixties. Where did it come from? Like the stylised magpie badge of the 70s and 80s, I find it very cool and wish the club would do more with it.
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My earliest recollection of 'Mr Magpie' was from the top of the Football Post when I became a Notts fan in the 1950's.
This particular edition is from January 1st 1955, the headline recording Jimmy Jackson's 4 goals in our 5-1 win against West Ham
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Had a silk scarf with him on in the seventies, tied around the wrist of course, fking hard core
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The Ogdens cigarette card you attached is from a set of 50 'Club Nicknames' issued in 1933. I guess the picture itself is Ogden's artist's impression of our nickname but certainly looks more of a 'gentleman' than the Football Post's effort.
We could just so easily have looked like this, Newcastle's.
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It was definitely a Football Post ( News?) creation.
It never failed to amaze me how that paper came out within an hour of the end of the match. Great part of the Saturday afternoon ritual, and much missed.
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I wonder if the Footy post filched the image from the above mentioned Ogdens AFC nicknames cards?Originally Posted by Notsohumblepie
Apparently you can still buy a set of 50 (reprinted) to this day.
https://www.londoncigcard.co.uk/prod...rinted-1996/71
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Footy Post from the day I was born, how weird???My earliest recollection of 'Mr Magpie' was from the top of the Football Post when I became a Notts fan in the 1950's.
This particular edition is from January 1st 1955, the headline recording Jimmy Jackson's 4 goals in our 5-1 win against West Ham
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I'd go along with Notso and say it's a Football Post creation. They certainly used the image in the 1930s as these two 'Post Football Guides' show. The guides first came out around 1905.
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This is brilliant! Any ideas who the other characters are and who they're supposed to represent?My earliest recollection of 'Mr Magpie' was from the top of the Football Post when I became a Notts fan in the 1950's.
This particular edition is from January 1st 1955, the headline recording Jimmy Jackson's 4 goals in our 5-1 win against West Ham
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No idea. 2nd from the back could well be Sid. Chap at the very back seems to have a pair of Stags horns on, no?
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