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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 are continually adding new stock to our website - www.cigarettecards.com - and higher value collections are always wanted for purchase. Contact John Shaw at johnshaw14cards@googlemail.com or Tel 07769 032240/01283 480382

NEXT SALE of Paper Collectables will be on June the 3rd

Next Sale - Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th and Friday 13th June 2025

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

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.

Another of our brief snippets into card collecting of a hundred years ago - with this set, issued in June 1923

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.

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RB.2 – The Cigarette Card Issues of R. & J. Hill, Ltd

A little tribute in its fifty-first year.

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. 

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 ...

How many of us remember the last one in 1953 ?

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.