Year of issue: 1922
Issued by: “Football & Sports Favourite” and “Sports Fun” (Amalgamated Press)
Trade reference number(s): ZJ5-74 / FOO-040
Number of cards in set: 168 smaller “stamps” + 24 larger ones (87 + 10 footballers)
Size: KF (approx. 40mm x 40mm)
Approximate value (per card): Murrays unlisted; FCCM £9.00-£12.00
A set of seemingly anonymous “stamps” which have been identified as attributable to the two publications named above, which could easily have been “sister” papers. Originally issued in sheets of twelve together with twenty-four larger stamps they were stuck into a book which apparently did not have enough pages to hold them all! Also, not all of the stamps were of footballers, and I will not be including those others here.
Alan Jenkins has done all of the leg-work here and has collected images of the booklet to house these stamps and photocopied complete sheets – many of which I have used – all of which you can see HERE.
FCCM catalogues these as a c1924 anonymous issue and has stamps which vary in value, presumably because of the team that individuals might play for.
Stamps are arranged here in alphabetical order rather than by the sheets on which they were issued.
And the larger footballer “stamps”…
Footballers only listed on the following sheets:
Sheet 1
Nicholson (Clapton Orient)
Edmonds (Wolves)
Buchan (Bolton)
Fort (Millwall)
Walters (Spurs)
Wilson (Huddersfield Town)
Sheet 2
Clay (Spurs)
Wallace (Oldham Athletic)
Islip (Huddersfield Town)
Kelly (Burnley)
Chedgzoy (Everton)
Wilson (Sheffield United)
Sheet 3
Ducat (Fulham and Surrey)
Vizard (Bolton)
Campbell (Partick Thistle)
Blair (Cardiff City)
Morton (Glasgow Rangers)
Sheet 4
L. Smelt (Burnley)
J. Banks (Tottenham Hotspur)
J. Gossman (Queens Park)
F. Foxall (Birmingham)
J. Hargreaves (Bradford City)
J. Galbraith (Clapton Orient)
Sheet 5
J. Doran (Brighton & Hove A.)
D. Jack (Bolton Wanderers)
M. Hamill (Manchester City)
J. Jones (Crystal Palace)
J. Gittens (Barnsley)
G. French (Greenock Morton)
Sheet 6
F. Potts (Bradford City)
H. Humphries (Rotherham County)
H. Edgley (Queens Park Rangers)
E. Goldthorpe (Leeds United)
E. Ferguson (Chelsea)
D. Lawson (St Mirren)
Sheet 7
J. Wood (Falkirk)
C. Lawrence (Derby County)
J. Armstrong (Barnsley)
C. Johnstone (Aston Villa)
A.E. Knight (Portsmouth)
Sheet 8
W. Newbigging (Motherwell)
C. Petrie (Sheffield Wednesday)
E. Kail (Dulwich Hamlet)
A. Wilson (Plymouth Argyle)
R. Williams (Merthyr Town)
W. Cope (West Ham Utd.)
Sheet 9
F. Broadbent (Oldham Athletic)
J. Mitchell (Charlton Athletic)
R. Boreham (Arsenal)
R. Elvey (Bolton Wanderers)
A. Mutch (Huddersfield Town)
J. Reid (Everton)
Sheet 10
McGrory (Stoke)
Thomson (St. Mirren)
Grimsdell (Spurs)
Pirie (Queens Park)
Cresswell (Sunderland)
Williamson (Bury)
Sheet 11
Brittan (Cardiff City)
Dimmock (Spurs)
Bond (Bradford City)
Richardson (Plymouth)
Stringfellow (Hearts)
Campbell (Southampton)
Donkin (Barnsley)
Jones (Notts Forest)
Sheet 12
Pennington (West Ham Utd.)
McCracken (Newcastle United)
Quantrill (Preston North End)
Schofield (Manchester United)
Jefferson (Swindon Town)
Williamson (Middlesbrough)
Lucas (Liverpool)
Sheet 13
Barratt (Southampton)
Brookes (Wolves)
Bradbury (Clapton Orient)
Pym (Bolton)
Fazackerley (Everton)
Brown (Motherwell)
Paterson (Sunderland)
Sheet 14
Roberts (P.N.E.)
Whittaker (Arsenal)
Ewart (Bradford City)
Broad (Stoke)
Smith (Huddersfield Town)
Feebury (Crystal Palace)
Bissett (Wolves)
11 larger footballers
Len Davies (Cardiff City)
Stan Davies (West Bromwich Albion)
Ferguson (Motherwell)
Hardy (Nottingham Forest)
Hopkin (Liverpool)
Manderson (Glasgow Rangers)
McMenemy (Partick Thistle)
North (Arsenal)
Rawlings (Southampton)
Walden (Spurs and Northants)
Max Woosnam (Manchester City)
And here is an album for them…
I am clearly ‘making do’ with some very rough photocopies here, and I am also short of a few pictures from sheets 8 and 9 – can YOU help, please?
