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 […]
Ten cards arrived at CardHawk this week that stopped us in our tracks. A client has submitted a set of Japanese promotional cards spanning three of the most collectible modern Pokémon promo series — the Poncho Pikachu cosplay cards, the Munch “The Scream” collaboration, and the Team Skull Pikachu pair. All in immaculate condition. All […]
The Object This illustrated, shield-shaped football card depicts Powell of Woolwich Arsenal and dates to the early 1890s, a period when Arsenal was still establishing itself as a professional Football League club. Issued by J. Baines of Bradford, the card belongs to the earliest phase of football collecting, before the widespread introduction of mass-produced tobacco […]
The Object This signed cabinet photograph dates to around 1906 and depicts H. A. Laurie, a documented participant and administrator in the Brooklyn and New Jersey club cricket scene during the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening decade of the twentieth. Produced by a Toronto studio and personally signed and inscribed in […]
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 […]
The origins of the firm are somewhat sketchy, but records indicate that the Batger were a German family with a background in sugar refining, some of whom moved to Britain in the early 1700’s. From there, a Miss Elizabeth Batger was reportedly the founder of Batger & Co in 1748 for the business of producing […]
Issued across the DC Thomson c1930, this set of 24 cards is a little unusual in that the front of the card is a footballer, and the reverse is of a car – though not uncommon with DC Thomson as they produced several sets with the same format of different subjects front and back Producer: […]
Issued across the DC Thomson “Adventure” & “Vanguard” comics in the latter half of 1925, each comic had a single card included each week – but there were 5 different cards issued every week so even if you bought both comics every week, you would still at best get 2 of the 5 cards, and […]
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 […]
Liam Devlin was born at 59 Waterloo Street, Derry City, on 18 June 1877. He moved to Greenock in Scotland shortly before 1900, and in 1907 married Margaret McDermott in St. Mary’s Church, Greenock. In 1913 Liam and Margaret moved to Kilmarnock where they took ownership of the Crown Hotel on the High Street. Here […]