Poppy 100 Anniversary

[Ed Storey]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

The differences I remember were the colour of the centre. Green for a while, now black.

Yes, the centre colour for Canadian Poppies was green and then it was switched to black. As Rob illustrated, a long time ago the Canadian Poppies used to have a green and black centre but I believe this was originally first changed to green only in order to save money on production costs.

Robin, I really like those car-sized poppies and I have one I bought in the UK a decade ago from a Veteran selling them for the Royal British Legion in Charing Cross Station along with this British version.

British Poppy - front copy.jpg