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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

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

as we reveal the back of our third clue card, here`s how we got to this week`s theme....

next sale Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th and Friday 13th December

Our latest Postal Auction ends on the 31st of October

Results are now online from their paper sale of the 1st & 2nd of October.

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

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" .... 

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