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I am currently buying Cigarette & Trade Card Types, Sets and Collections. Please Contact Oliver Cleaver on 07899 300405 or by email at olivercleaver@hotmail.co.uk

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

Lockdales Paper Collectables Auction - next ephemera sale is 5th & 6th of December

Our latest Society Auction catalogue is now ready for all to view. And remember you do not have to be a Society member to bid, but you do have to pay a buyers premium, of a very reasonable 10%, if you are not.

will be December 10th - results now in for Tuesday 21st & Wednesday 22nd November 2023

next sale 17th, 18th & 19th January 2024

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

Yes, it is time to add a new volume to your bookshelf. And this, the fifty-first edition of the ever popular guide to Cigarette Cards, Trade Cards, Gum Cards, and Tea Cards, is better than ever. It contains colour illustrations, and is completely updated.

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 still being added to with Cartophilic Crackers ....

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 ...

With the flashes and percussions surrounding me, I sit to update another rolling research blog. And this one is dedicated to Guy Fawkes, for it is in his honour that I am so surrounded.