And yet again eBay has come up trumps as I found three cards from this set having sold recently. Dealer Lee Graves will be rubbing his hands as they sold as follows: Kennedy (Reading) £265.00; Harkness (Midlothian) £343.00; and Alec. James (Arsenal) £844.25
Phew! 💷💷💷😮
eBay is proving very productive at the moment as I search for missing images, although the pictures are of not particularly good cards; age has certainly not helped them. The two latest editions are McMullen of Manchester City and Sheffield United’s Billy Gillespie.
Click the image here to see the images that I have found so far. 😉
I was lucky enough to find a whole slew of these on eBay recently and many of them represent either new images or significantly better ones than the ones that I already had.
Click the picture here to see the set so far.
I am indebted to new contact and Hibs fan, Richard White who has sent me several scans from a couple of series. First was a lovely 1924 Filshill “Footballers” card of Harry Ritchie, followed by “singles” cards of Dunn, Halligan, Muirhead and Shaw in the 1922/23 Rover “Cricketers & Footballers” series. These were then followed up by “pairs” cards from the same series of Archibald & Dunn, and Halligan & Jackson. These Scottish issue cards are particularly hard to hunt down, so this is quite a coup for my website. 😉
As ever, these never seem to turn up in particularly good condition, but Lee Graves has several for sale right now on eBay and I’ve managed to pinch the images of five new cards: J. Collins (Swansea), S. Haden (Notts County), J. Jenkins (Brighton & Hove Albion), Murphy (Bolton Wanderers) and Joe Spence (Manchester United). If you’re interested, the prices range from £19.99 for a card of Gibson of Aston Villa to an astronomical £199.99 for a lovely condition card of Liverpool’s McKinlay. The Jenkins one is in very poor condition but it’s notable because it is either a printer’s proof or a misprint as it has no blue stripes.
Click the picture here to see the set so far.
1920s Heaven 