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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

Next auction is Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd August

results are now in from the Paper Collectables Sale of the 25th and 26th June 2024

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.

They have seen some card storage online, these are zip fastened and inside are pockets, held in a ring binder format. However they have been told that the rings damage the cards.

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

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.

How many of us remember the last one in 1953 ?