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Season 1968/69 The quality keeps on coming. A&BC and FKS produced their best sets ever. In my view this is the pinnacle year for football cards in the 1965/66 to 1979/80 period. |
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| Footballer - Yellow backs. My own
all-time favourite set of football cards. A neat, classy set with a
Football Quiz and Magic Answer on the back. Series 1 comprises cards
1 to 54 (Checklist is card 1), and Series 2 comprises cards 55 to 101
(Checklist card 55). Number in set: 101 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Series 1 (1-54), Series 2 (55-101), Team checklist Special: A&BC Chewing Gum variants and error cards Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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Team pennants.
Team pennants folded in the yellow back card packets, hence the folds
whenever you see these attractive pennants. The pennants have instructions
to 'Cut out Pennant along black line' but thankfully not too many boys
seem to have done this. They were issued with Series 1 of the Yellow
Backs in 1968. Number in set: 26 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist |
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Team emblems.
These shiny cards don't
scan too well. They were issued with Series 2 of the Yellow Backs in
1968. Number in set: 20 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist |
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| A&BC Chewing Gum (Scottish) | ||
| Footballers - Yellow backs.
Similar to the English yellow backs of the same year. Douglas Coakley of
A&BC Gum has advised that in 1968 they had terrible trouble in the factory
mixing up the English and Scottish cards so after that year they made the
two sets different colours each year. Apparently there are a number of different
versions of each card, where the photograph and text are the same but the
Football Quiz questions differ. Gallery: Set gallery Number in set: 81 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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Team
pennants. Team pennants folded in the yellow back card packets,
hence the folds whenever you see these attractive pennants. The pennants
have instructions to 'Cut out Pennant along black line' but thankfully not
too many boys seem to have done this. Number in set: Unknown |
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The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars. This
first of the more commonly available FKS sets, and a great favourite. The
stickers are readily identifiable through the backs which have the player
name, club and biography. Album price 3s 6d. Number in set: 330 Packet: 7 stickers for 6d Gallery: Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Coventry City, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Queen's Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Checklists: Set checklist Special: FKS album gallery |
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Charles Buchan's
Football Monthly World Stars. Charles Buchan's Football Monthly ran for
just under 23 years in 3 different incarnations, finally ceasing in June
1974. For more information see
www.charlesbuchansfootballmonthly.com. The World Stars comprises
a Souvenir Album with spaces for 80 small black and white stickers. Number in set: 80 Gallery: N/A Checklist: Set checklist or Team checklist |
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Famous Footballers Mini-books.
A series of 6 small booklets, costing one shilling each, with colour
photographs inside. A gallery is available for all photos from each of
the mini-books. Number in set: 6 Gallery: Mini-books gallery |
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First Division Soccer Stars. A set of attractive
self-adhesive PVC stickers of First Division stars, produced in non-fade
waterproof colours. These are very rare, with very few known to have survived.
Northern Trancessories, based in Leeds, seems to have had an understandable
bias for clubs around their area, as can be seen from the image gallery.
I'm sure that there are a lot more of these to be discovered. If you are
aware of any other examples please contact me via this
email. The image below is from the shop display, with plastic pockets underneath where the stickers were displayed for sale. Number in set: Unknown Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: N/A |
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| First Division Soccer Clubs.
A set of attractive self-adhesive PVC stickers
of First Division clubs, almost certainly produced at the same time as the
'Stars' depicted above. Number in set: 24 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: N/A |
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| Bernard Briggs' Album of Football '68. Bernard (Bouncing) Briggs appeared in the Hornet, Hotspur and Wizard comics. He was a powerful young fellow who earned his living as a General Dealer. He had a yard of his own in Slagton, and rode a motor bike with a sidecar made from an old bathtub. He was a keen amateur sportsman taking up various sports including: Baseball, Boxing, Football, Ice Hockey, Rugby League, Tennis and Wrestling. Bernard excelled at all the sports he tried (from www.britishcomics.20m.com).The album was presented with the Hornet. The stickers inside appear to have been cut from a colour sheet. |
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