News archive
2nd September 2024
Thinking of Streamlining Your Collection?
I am currently buying Cigarette & Trade Card Types, Sets and Collections.
Contact Oliver Cleaver on 07899 300405 - or by email at olivercleaver@hotmail.co.uk
2nd September 2024
JS Cards
Our new website - www.cigarettecards.com - is now up and running, and we are continually adding new stock.Higher value collections wanted for purchase. Contact John Shaw at johnshaw14cards@googlemail.com or Tel 07769 032240/01283 480382
25th August 2024
Modern Storage, an investigation.
A reader wrote that they have seen some card storage online, these are zip fastened and inside are pockets, held in a ring binder format.
12th August 2024
Loddon Auctions
prices realised are now online from their last auction of Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd August
14th July 2024
Lockdales Auction
next paper sale 1st & 2nd of October. Watch this space for a link to their catalogue. And check out the results of their last sale by clicking here
8th June 2024
Auction PA 592 - ends Friday 28th of June
AUCTION JOTTINGS
I hope that everyone who managed to attend the convention enjoyed themselves. I certainly did, there were many dealers with a great selection of cards to browse and buy.
25th February 2024
Postal Auction (PA590)
Postal Auction No.590.
There were 38 bidders, of whom 30 were successful. There was a total of 227 bids.
113 of the 150 lots (75%) were sold. The total amount raised by the sale was £3458.
If all lots had sold at their reserves the total raised would have been £2722.
15th July 2023
So did you ..... ?
swap football stickers at Portman Road, Ipswich, back in 2002 ? If so you may be featured here
14th June 2023
newsletter update
Friday 2nd of June 2023 - W.D. & H.O. Wills [tobacco : UK] "Musical Celebrities" first series (November 1912) 38/50 – W675-123 : W62-90.1 : W/83 - and birthday boy of the day Edward Elgar.
1st June 2023
A Centenary of Cards
Another of our brief snippets into card collecting of a hundred years ago - with this set, issued in June 1923
29th May 2023
C For The Cigarette Card Review
One of the more unusual card magazines was this one, and it remains quite hard to come by today. So, for the benefit of anyone who has never come across it, lets have a chat about "The Cigarette Card Review" ....
4th May 2023
A centenary of Cards
The first of a regular series chatting about centenary cards. And this month, one hundred years ago, May 1923, a new set began its circulation. This was W.D. & H.O. Wills` "Arms of Universities", showing here.
30th January 2023
Evans, Idrsyn Oliver
So let us chat, first of all, about I. O. Evans. or to give him his full name Idrisyn Oliver Evans. He was born in 1894, in South Africa, in the Orange Free State, but was brought to England as a child. In 1912 he became a civil servant.
29th December 2022
Another legend is lost
we featured Pele as our card of the day on the 27th of November 2022. If you missed that, you can read it now as a tribute
8th November 2022
Orpington here we come
A quick and very welcome note to let you know that ORPINGTON CLUB is not closing; Mike Heard is going to take it over ...