Year of issue: 1926-27
Issued by: “Boys’ Magazine” (E. Hulton & Co. Ltd.)
Trade reference number(s): BOY-460 / BPM-4
Number of cards in set: 24
Size: unknown
Approximate value (per card): Murrays unlisted; FCCM £35.00
A stunning set of cards, issued two per week, in the style of the earlier Baines and Sharpe cards. But I can’t for the life of me work out how they managed to omit Huddersfield Town, a team which by this time had won the Football League Championship three times in a row (the first team to do it, I might add!) and appeared in two FAC Finals, winning in 1922. What more do you have to do in order to be “famous“? The fact that the cards were printed in Leeds probably accounts for the inclusion of their local team, a club that had done absolutely nothing since its formation only seven years earlier in 1919!
- Arsenal: J. Brain
- Aston Villa: F. Moss
- Birmingham: F. Womack
- Bolton Wanderers: E.T. Vizard
- Burnley: J.H. Hill
- Cardiff City: F. Keenor – issue #253 (Vol IX): 8th January 1927
- Celtic: W. McStay
- Chelsea: J. Priestley
- Clapton Orient: R. Gavigan
- Everton: H. Hart
- Fulham: L. Oliver
- Heart Of Midlothian: J. White
- Leeds United: T. Townley
- Liverpool: E. Longworth
- Manchester City: F. Roberts
- Manchester United: F. Barson
- Partick Thistle: J. Gibson
- Portsmouth: W.W. Haines
- Preston North End: T. Hamilton
- Sheffield United: H. Johnson
- Sunderland: W. Clunas – issue #253 (Vol IX): 8th January 1927
- Swansea Town: J. Sykes
- Tottenham Hotspur: A. Grimsdell
- West Ham United: J. Hebden
NB Some of the images above have come from Carl Wilkes‘ website but I have carefully removed his ‘watermark’ simply to give a better idea of what the card looks like. Please visit his site by following the link in the ‘Acknowledgements’.
I am still short of several images of the “backs” here – can YOU help, please?
