A Cartophilic Year

16th April 2025
Michele

Greetings to my fellow card collectors. And I hope you enjoy browsing our brand new website. 

This is a newish project, which lists cards by year, and month, of issue, and it was suggested to us by several readers who thought such would be very useful for research and social media.

Sadly, it is limited, for though we have good records of dates of issue from the larger manufacturers, many of the smaller ones are lacking - and also, until now, there was no ascribed place to record any dates of issue that were revealed during hunts for other things.

We are also doing this in conjunction with our gallery of cards, and eventually all of these sets will have clickable links to take you off and show you the front and back of those cards, plus all the information we currently know about them. To make it easier for me, the ones which are already linked in to a card are prefixed by 📌 (which comes up as a red push pin on my chromebook, but do let me know if it does not on what you use).

Most of these are Cards of the Day, which means that only that card appears on the page, but some are newsletter cards, and you will need to scroll down a newsletter to find them, you will tell these by the fact that they have a weekday as part of the entry in those cases.

Books added in for April - Wills Combined

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

  • 1904 - Ogden "Fowls, Pigeons & Dogs"
  • 1905 - Ogden "British Birds" - white back - first series
  • 1906 - Churchman "Birds & Eggs"
  • 1906 - Ogden "Football Club Colours"
  • 1908 - Wills "Cricketers - 1908"
  • 1909 - Wills "Billiards by John Roberts"
  • 1910 - Wills "Fish and Bait"
  • 1914 - Churchman "Fish and Bait"
  • L 1929 - Lambert & Butler "Hints & Tips for Motorists" [in newsletter, scroll down to Friday, 26th May]
  • 1930 - Lambert & Butler "Garden Life"

JUNE

  • 1904 - Wills "Borough Arms"
  • 1905 - Edwards, Ringer & Bigg "Beauties "CERF"
  • 1906 - Edwards, Ringer & Bigg "Birds & Eggs"
  • 1907 - Churchman "Wild Animals of the World"
  • 1935 - Ardath "Sports Champions" - `Ardath Cork Tipped` brand

JULY

  • 1905 - Churchman "Interesting Buildings"
  • 1905 - Edwards, Ringer & Bigg "Life on Board a Man O`War"
  • 1909 - Wills "Naval Dress and Badges" 
  • 1914 - Ogden "Boxing"
  • 1914 - Ogden "Club Badges"

AUGUST

  • 1896 - Wills "Ships" - 50 new designs
  • 1903 - Wills "Locomotive Engines and Rolling Stock"
  • 1907 - Wills "Arms of the Bishopric"
  • 1912 - Churchman "Regimental Colours and Cap Badges"
  • 1913 - Churchman "Sectional Cycling Map"
  • 1916 - Churchman "Boy Scouts" - second series
  • 1937 - Lambert & Butler "British Trees & Their Uses"

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

  • 1899 - Hill "Belle of New York Series"
  • 1904 - Churchman "Beauties "CERF"
  • 1910 - Wills "Arms of the British Empire"
  • 1912 - Ogden "Boy Scouts" - third series
  • 1915 - Ogden "Boxers"
  • 1916 - Churchman "Boy Scouts" - third series

NOVEMBER

  • 1906 - Wills "School Arms"
  • 1913 - Ogden "Boy Scouts" - fourth series
  • 1914 -- Churchman "Footballers Action Pictures & Inset"

DECEMBER

  • 1904 - Ogden "Birds Eggs"
  • 1910 - Wills "Calendar for 1911"
  • 1933 - Lambert & Butler "A History of Aviation" - brown back
  • 1936 - Ardath "Britain`s Defenders"