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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

We have 6,500 sets in stock right now, and are continually adding more to our website - www.cigarettecards.com. Higher value collections always wanted for purchase. Contact John Shaw at johnshaw14cards@googlemail.com or Tel 07769 032240/01283 480382

Results now online from the next ephemera sale of the 10th and 11th of March

catalogue now online for next sale - of Postcards - on 4th of March

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.

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.

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.

swap football stickers at Portman Road, Ipswich, back in 2002 ? If so you may be featured here

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A little tribute in its fifty-first year.

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

and our never forgotten Scottish Branches

A quick and very welcome note to let you know that ORPINGTON CLUB is not closing; Mike Heard is going to take it over ...

Now if looks like it is just a children`s club from the pictures, but if anyone has any grandchildren or other younger relatives it sounds fun. Also if you live close and have any surplus cards to give away and help them out I am sure they would be grateful.

that latest Panini album, look closer at the cost..... and this fascinating article hot off the press

  Some of our readers might be amazed by what I am going to tell you but in the 1950s there was a Cartophilic Society in Peru. 

Yes, this popular page is coming back! So please let us know of your favourite cartophilic sites ....

Just in case you were wondering about our recent sale here are the two most successful lots!

Today saw the birthday of the first truly internationally famous Chinese-American film star, Wong Liu-Tsong. You may not immediately recognise her name, for she used another, namely Anna May Wong.