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Season 1973/74 An interesting year for football cards. A&BC tried hard with the blue backs and giant team posters. FKS experimented with a new style. Typhoo produced another edition of their popular tea cards and premium issue, but this was to be their last. Esso produced the interesting Top Team disks. |
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| Footballers - Blue backs. A&BC
entered the era of scary hairstyles with a classy and popular set. The
set was issued in 2 series: cards 1 to 131 (checklist 36) and 132 to
264 (checklist 182). Quality control was still not a priority for A&BC
with cards 235, 262 and 264 never issued. Number in set: 262 (including the two variants of the checklist) Gallery: Arsenal, Birmingham City, Burnley, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United Checklists: Series 1 (1-131), Series 2 (132-263), Team checklist Special: Blue-back wrappers gallery Special: A&BC Chewing Gum variants and error cards Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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Crinkle-cut
photographs. Another A&BC set of black and white photographs, similar
to the 1969/70 set but these tend to be action, rather than head, shots.
Quality is again an issue, with the paper tending to age and therefore
make this set appear older than they really are. These cards were issued
with Series 2 of the Blue back set. Number in set: 32 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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Giant
Team Posters. Large posters of the top English and Scottish teams, each
with 12 player portraits. The posters were collectable from packets
of gum costing 4p each. Number in set: 16 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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| A&BC Chewing Gum (Scottish) | ||
| Footballers - Red backs.
This set was issued as two series, 1 to 90 and 91 to 178. Number in set: 178 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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| Barratt & Co. | ||
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Football Stars. A set of 50 cigarette style
cards issued by Barratt & Co Ltd, London, England. Printed in England.
This was the final issue for Barratt's under their old name, with Bassett's
name appearing on cards after this date. Number in set: 50 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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| Esso | ||
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Top
Team Collection. A strange though attractive set of small, thin metal
disks, referred to as 'photo-discs' by Esso. The 22 'Soccer Superstars'
could be mounted on a card by moistening the back of the photo-disc and
pressing it firmly onto the ready-gummed circle on the collection card.
The collection cards originally came with tissue paper in the middle to
stop the pages of the card sticking to each other. The photo-discs were presented in small sachets obtained each time you bought 3 gallons of petrol or 1 pint of Esso motor oil. When opened the sachets exposed pictures of players. The sachets and their pictures (stamps) have also become collectable (see below). Number in set: 22 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: N/A |
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Top Team Collection Packets Footballer Stamps.
Printed inside the sachets were small photos of players. The backs of the
sachets indicated that each sachet should contain two footballer stamps,
but they were from a continuous roll which was cut according to the needs
of the sachets. There are therefore many different combinations of players. Number in set: 22 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: N/A |
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The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1973/74 First
Division and 1973 F.A. Cup Winners.
A new landscape format, complete with club colours and a small, colour head
shot. The centre pages of the album include fourteen stickers of Sunderland,
commemorating their F.A. Cup win - these stickers are A thru N. The final
pages of the album include 2 pictures each of Bobby and Jack Charlton, stickers
O, P, Q and R. Album: Price 15p. Number in set: 304 Packet: 10 stamps for 3p Gallery: Arsenal, Birmingham City, Burnley, Chelsea, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City, QPR, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, F.A. Cup Winners (Sunderland) Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: FKS album gallery |
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| Goodies | ||
| World Cup. A set of 25 cigarette sized football cards presented
by Goodies Limited, Greenbank, Bristol. The cards came in sweet
cigarette packets, which also advertised that there was an album
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| My Magic Moment in Football - a
Shoot booklet. Another in the series of booklets formed from the
inside pages of Shoot magazine. The autograph stickers were back again,
replacing the badges. Number in set: 111 |
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| Kellogg's | ||
| International Soccer Tips. A small set of coloured
drawings given away with Kellogg's Sugar Smacks. The poster displayed
(kindly supplied by Toby) states that a great free football card special
is included in every packet. Full-colour shots of eight top footballers
- Jackie Charlton, Emlyn Hughes, Billy Bremner, Alan Ball, Derek Dougan,
Gordon Banks, Wyn Davies and Tony Currie. Interestingly the poster states that for just 25p and two Sugar Smacks packet tops you can get an album with more pictures, and space for your cards and autographs. Number in set: 8 Gallery: N/A Checklist: N/A |
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| Panini | ||
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Műnchen 74
World Cup. A rare set of stickers, again produced for the international
market. The sticker backs have text in six languages, with the English version
being 'Ask your retailer the album for this collection of picture cards'.
Huh? I think we know what it means. Number in set: 400 Gallery: N/A Checklists: N/A |
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Football Funnies. Another
set of flimsy cards (paper really) which have a cartoon on the front and
the related story on the back. Number in set: 25 Gallery: N/A Checklists: N/A |
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| D.C. Thomson | ||
| The Victor Year of Football. A football
calendar for 1974, presented with the Victor comic in its edition dated
January 19, 1974. Number in set: 1 |
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| Top Sellers | ||
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Football
'74. A large set of cards featuring the First Division teams, team badges,
plus some puzzle cards. The back of these cards states 'Printed in Italy
by Panini 1973'. The front of the album (cost 12p) states that these were 'self-adhesive collectors cards', though it is not clear to me where the adhesive is. The album was '© Published in England by Top Sellers Ltd. Printed in Finland'. No offence to the Finns but, honestly, the album binding is very poor and you will be lucky to find an album that hasn't come apart at the seams. You could obtain individual cards to complete your collection by sending missing numbers to: Top Sellers Ltd. Dept. F74, Melton Road Thurmaston, Leicester Number in set: 420 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist Special: Puzzle cards master index |
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| Typhoo | ||
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Football Stars. 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.You needed to collect
12 of the white footballs from the packets and post them to Typhoo stating
which of the set of 24 you required. Number in set: 24 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist |
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Football Stars, Colour Pictures.
If you collected any 12 of the tea packet footballs you could send them
away to Typhoo Tea and obtain a 10" x 8" colour photo of your
favourite player. Number in set: 24 |
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