| Season 1967/68 A golden age of English Football cards begins. With the World Cup victory fresh in their minds a number of companies try to capture the imagination of their customers with a variety of offerings. The first ever English FKS stickers appeared, destined for a distinguished history. |
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| A&BC Chewing Gum (English) | ||
| Footballer (Star Players). A small
set of colourful cards, sometimes referred to as 'Black backs'. No checklists. Number in set: 55 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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England's Stars
pin-ups. An attractive set of 'pin-up' posters given away in the packets
of Star Players. Since these pin-ups were squeezed into the bubble gum
packets they always have the creases. Number in set: 12 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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| A&BC Chewing Gum (Scottish) | ||
| Footballers. A set of
66 coloured photograph cards issued in pairs, but most often seen as singles.
There are 42 different individual footballers to collect, although they
were issued as a number of different 'pairs' - each footballer may therefore
appear on more than one paired card. There are 55 known paired card combinations. There are also 12 paired cards (24 individual cards) which each depict part of a photograph of the Celtic team group - these cards are very rare.
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| Barratt & Co. | ||
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Famous Footballers (Series A.15). Unfortunately
the last in this series of 50 attractively coloured sweet cigarette cards,
issued by Barratt & Co Ltd, London. Cards printed in England. After
the issue of this set Barratt's took a break from football cards for a few
years Number in set: 50 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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| Carr's Biscuits | ||
| Soccer Card Series.
Excellent quality cards from this biscuit company. Made from strong card
they are 19 x 7.5cm. They do not mention Carrs on the cards, only the words
'Sports Soccer card series'. If you know anything more please email
me
here. Number in set: 20 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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| FKS Publishers | ||
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The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars.
This rarest of all FKS football albums and stickers. The stickers are readily
identifiable through the backs which have the player name and club, but
no other printing including no number. The album has the same cover as the
1968/69 album, and many of the stickers have the same images as the 1968/69
set. The stickers do not indicate that they should only be stuck at the
top, so most were stuck completely down in albums. There was no writing
in the space for each sticker in the albums, so nothing much was lost except
that you won't find many of these stickers 'ex-album'. The album, and therefore
the stickers, are full of errors and omissions e.g. surnames only, misspellings
etc. Click to view an article on the
1967/68 packet.
Album price 3s 6d. Number in set: 330 Packet: 8 stickers for 6d Gallery: Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Coventry City, Everton, Fulham, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Checklists: Set checklist Special: FKS album gallery Special: 1967/68 packets article Special: 1967/68 variants |
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| Fleetway | ||
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Lion and Champion Album of Soccer Stars.
Sheets of small black and white stickers included in the Lion and Champion
comic of the time. The stickers, 110 in total, could be cut out and placed
into the album. There were 4 sheets of 15, and 2 sheets of 25. Number in set: 110 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist and Team checklist |
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| Roy Race Album of Football Club
Badges. Sheets of small black and white stickers included with the
Tiger and Hurricane comic of the time. The stickers, 110 in total,
could be cut out and placed into the album. There were 4 sheets of 15,
and 2 sheets of 25. Number in set: 110 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist |
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| Typhoo Tea | ||
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International Football Stars, 1st series.
The cards were able to be cut from the side of the tea packets. The
quality of the cards therefore depends a lot on the person who cut them
out, since this dictates how much of the packet was included, and how neat
the borders will be. Some people cut them out with the accompanying text,
while others cut around the picture only. Number in set: 24 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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International Football Stars,
1st series, Colour Pictures. If you collected any 12 of the tea packet
cards you could send them away to Typhoo Tea and obtain a 10" x 8" colour photo of your favourite player, 'suitable for framing'. One interesting aspect of the Colour Pictures set is the existence of two versions of the Derek Dougan card, one for Leicester City and the other for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Dougan was transferred from Leicester to Wolves in March 1967. The text on the Leicester card reads exactly the same as the Wolves version of the card, except that they have added in the transfer details i.e. ‘Aston Villa and Peterborough’ has become ‘Aston Villa, Peterborough and Leicester City’. This indicates that the set was produced in February/March/April 1967. This website does not know whether the Leicester City version of the Dougan card was ever sent to the public. We can perhaps assume one of two things (1) the Leicester card was produced and sent out amongst the earliest to those who requested it, and then replaced by the Wolves card or (2) the Leicester card was never issued as the Wolves card was always sent out. The Gordon Banks card in this set has an asterisk against the team name and a note at the end of the text which says ‘Since transferred in April 1967 to Stoke City’, which confirms that the cards were designed in early 1967. Bank's transfer was not reflected on the packet issues of this card. Number in set: 24 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist |
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