Who is the Queen of Clubs?
She represents Damon Runyan’s Miss Sarah Brown, a mission worker whose eyes ‘are one hundred percent eyes in very respect.’ Peter Lehmann read Runyon’s ‘The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown’ from Guys and Dolls in which she threw loaded dice to win Sky Masterson’s soul for the Kingdom of Heaven for two dollars. Masterson went down 100Gs on the deal. The Queen of Clubs has been his favourite card since. In 1998 Barossa grape growers were having difficulty selling surplus grapes from that years prolific vintage, so Peter Lehmann set up a company in partnership with them to make wine. The company was called Masterson Vignerons in recognition of the gamble they were taking. Artists were invited to interpret the Queen of Clubs on labels for the new wines, later sold under the Peter Lehmann name. If you have been, thanks for reading. © Copyright Peter May 2002. peter@winelabels.org Other articles on this site are listed by clicking here U n u s u a l index about me www.winelabels.org/artqueen.htm 3
