Year of issue: 1928/29
Issued by: Tucketts Sweets
Trade reference number(s): TUC-050 / TUC-3
Number of cards in set: 25
Size: standard cigarette card size
Approximate value (per card): Murrays £25.00; FCCM £30.00-£40.00
This small set is a direct copy of the Pattreiouex tobacco set and the Lovells set of around the same time, but are significantly harder to find than either of those two sets. The backs are identical; only the company logo at the top and slogan at the base are different. Even the error of Sam Wadsworth’s name being printed as “F.J. Wadsworth” is repeated in all three sets.
It’s also a weirdly skewed balance of teams represented: Arsenal, Everton, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Manchester United, Newcastle and West Ham have just one player; Blackburn, Huddersfield and Sheffield United have two; Cardiff have five; and Manchester City have SEVEN, none of which seems to tie in with League or FA Cup success as far as I can see.
NB Quite a lot of these are ‘mock-ups’ and they’re rather obvious 🙂
- William Hardy (Cardiff City)
- W.R. Dean (Everton)
- Fred Keenor (Cardiff City)
- A.E. Hufton (West Ham United)
- Hugh Ferguson (Cardiff City)
- A. Chandler (Leicester City)
- J. Roscamp (Blackburn Rovers)
- Tom Farquharson (Cardiff City)
- S.C. Puddefoot (Blackburn Rovers)
- W. Gillespie (Sheffield United)
- F. Tunstall (Sheffield United)
- J.H. Hulme (Arsenal)
- T.C.F. Johnson (Manchester City)
- P. McCloy (Manchester City)
- H. Gallacher (Newcastle United)
- F.J. Wadsworth (Huddersfield Town)
- W.E. Rawlings (Manchester United)
- G. Camsell (Middlesbrough)
- F. Roberts (Manchester City)
- A. Jackson (Huddersfield Town)
- J. McMullan (Manchester City)
- S. Cowan (Manchester City)
- Stan Davies (Cardiff City)
- M. Barrass (Manchester City)
- J.G. Ridley (Manchester City)
I am still short of several images here – can YOU help, please?