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| Royale Studio - Fred Collins and Tibor Urgay (TIFC) |
Fred Collins and Tibor Urgay are featured together in Royale Studio's TIFC series, which was composed of two photo sets. The image above was used to promote the series generally in advertisements. The earliest appeared in 'Man Alive' No 2 (October 1958) where it was labelled simply as 'TIFC'. Tibor's initials coming first suggests that he was considered to be the star.
It's not completely clear which of the two sets this image belonged to.
TIFC-1 features Fred and Tibor posing and wrestling nude (and oiled!). The archive has 4 of the 12 images (excluding the one above).
TIFC-2 images show the pair performing gymnastic poses in gym shorts, but the catalogue description also mentions pouches. The archive has 8 of the 16 pictures, all in shorts. The description implies that the image above also belongs to set 2, but it seems a more natural fit with set 1. Another picture from the nude group was used separately to promote the sets in Tomorrow's Man (December 1958).
The gallery article for this series treats both sets together.
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