Ferenc Puskás — A&BC ‘All Sport’ Series #54, 1954 — PSA 7, joint-highest graded Some cards need their story told. This one needs its story contained — because Ferenc Puskás lived enough football for five careers, and all of it starts, for British collectors, with a small sepia card handed out with chewing gum in […]
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PSA Grading Results: Japanese Pokémon Promos — Five 10s, Three 9s Last month we featured a collection of ten Japanese Pokémon promotional cards that had arrived at CardHawk for PSA grading. The first eight have come back, and the results are in. Five PSA 10 GEM MINT. Three PSA 9 MINT. Eight for eight on […]
Reddish Maid Confections was a confectionery company based on Newark Road, Stockport – an area dominated by the cotton trade right up until the 1950’s. The confectionery factory was known locally as “The Toffee Works”, probably on account of its very popular Chocolate Covered Toffee which appears to have been in production from the 1930s […]
Colinville Gum was a small producer of chewing gum based in Tooting, South West London. The company was active in the 1950s/1960s, during which time it produced a very small number of gm cards. All of the sets are instantly identifiable as they were all very small in size, and were black and white real […]
Reddish Maid Confections was a confectionery company based on Newark Road, Stockport – an area dominated by the cotton trade right up until the 1950’s. The confectionery factory was known locally as “The Toffee Works”, probably on account of its very popular Chocolate Covered Toffee which appears to have bene in production from the 1930s […]
Known as “The First Great Centre Forward”, Gilber Oswald Smith plied the majority his trade for Corinthians between 1892-1903, where he netted an astonishing 132 goals in 137 games. He then moved to Casuals for one season, scoring 42 in 29. He also made 20 appearances for England, scoring another 11 goals. Not too bad […]