Year of issue: 1922-23
Issued by: “The Wizard” (D.C. Thomson)
Trade reference number(s): THO-305 / ZA10-3
Number of cards in set: 18
Size: MF (approx. 80mm x 38mm)
Approximate value (per card): Murrays unlisted; FCCM £2.00
This apparently anonymous set was a follow-on series from the British Team of Footballers collection, these lovely hand-coloured cards are not too difficult to find and won’t break the bank.
Alan Jenkins has done the donkey-work in discovering the publication dates shown here.
- A. Hawes (Sunderland) – issue #12, dated 9th December, 1922
- Bert Manderson (Rangers) – issue #13, dated 16th December, 1922
- J. “Jock” McNab (Liverpool) – issue #14, dated 23rd December, 1922
- J. Bradford (Birmingham) – issue #15, dated 30th December, 1922
- C. Voysey (Arsenal) – issue #16, dated 6th January, 1923
- S. Cookson (Manchester City) – issue #17, dated 13th January, 1923
- B. Menlove (Sheffield United) – issue #18, dated 20th January, 1923
- W. McStay (Celtic) – issue #19, dated 27th January, 1923
- H. Davies (Stoke) – issue #20, dated 3rd February, 1923
- Ivor Jones (West Bromwich Albion) – issue #21, dated 10th February, 1923
- Sidney Gibson (Nottingham Forest) – issue #22, dated 17th February, 1923
- A.E. Quantrill (Preston North End) – issue #23, dated 24th February, 1923
- J. McKinnell (Nottingham Forest) – issue #24, dated 3rd March, 1923
- D. Cock (Notts County) – issue #25, dated 10th March, 1923
- W. Ellis (Sunderland) – issue #26, dated 17th March, 1923
- W. Jennings (Bolton Wanderers) – issue #24, dated 3rd March, 1923
- Dick Johnson (Liverpool) – issue #28, dated 31st March, 1923
- J.B. Bell (Chelsea) – issue #29, dated 7th April, 1923
Some of these images are really very poor – can YOU help, please?