Year of issue: 1927
Issued by: “The Rover” (D.C. Thomson)
Trade reference number(s): THO-690 / THO-29
Number of cards in set: 24
Size: standard cigarette card (approx. 71mm x 40mm)
Approximate value (per card): Murrays £3.60; FCCM £2.00
Wrongly dated 1924 in FCCM, the twenty-four cards in this set were issued in groups of four at a time although you wouldn’t know this going by the information on the back of them. Alan Jenkins has done the donkey work here for me.
Issue #253, dated 20th February 1927:
1. J. Blair (Tottenham Hotspur)
2. H. Gallacher (Newcastle United)
3. G. Briggs (Birmingham)
4. J. Spence (Manchester United)
Issue #254, dated 27th February 1927:
5. A. Jackson (Huddersfield Town)
6. J. Ruffell (West Ham United)
7. J. Crawford (Queens Park)
8. G. Green (Sheffield United)
Issue #255, dated 5th March 1927:
9. T. Glidden (West Bromwich Albion)
10. G. McLachlan (Cardiff City)
11. J.D. Gibson (Partick Thistle)
12. W.R. Dean (Everton)
Issue #256, dated 12th March 1927:
13. A. McIlroy (Sunderland)
14. T. Bradshaw (Bury)
15. H. Adcock (Leicester City)
16. T. Jennings (Leeds United)
Issue #257, dated 19th March 1927:
17. J. Lambert (Arsenal)
18. G. Sommerville (Burnley)
19. W. Harris (Aston Villa)
20. W. Cook (Dundee)
Issue #258, dated 26th March 1927:
21. G. Brown (Huddersfield Town)
22. R. Parker (Millwall)
23. T. Mitchell (Blackburn Rovers)
24. A. James (Preston North End)
