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Football Cards 1965/66 - 1979/80
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Nigel's Webspace - Galleries of English
Football Cards 1965/66 - 1979/80
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~~~ On the world wide web since 1999 ~~~ |
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| Season 1979/80. The last season covered by this website. Transimage tried their first and only collection - a pity since it showed promise. Sigma tried their first collection, with the promise of many more to come - but unfortunately they never came. FKS tried the quality end of the market by producing bronze medallions which could be purchased. The market seems to be in a state of change, leading to the dismal days of the 1980s - but that's another story! | |
| Bassetts | |
| Football.
Bassett's kept this tradition of producing 50 sweet cigarette type
football cards going right up until 1999, though this 1979/80 set is the
last one covered by the range of this website. Set size: 50. |
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| FKS Publishers | |
| Soccer Stars
80 English First and Second Divisions, Scottish Premier Division.
The albums just keep getting bigger. This one includes Second Division
Team photos, plus England Under 21 players. At the back of this album was the change to order the bronze medallions (see below).
Set size: 450. |
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| Soccer Stars
80 - Send-away bronze
medallions. A set of 22 (one for each First Division team from
1978/79) available by sending away to FKS. Each medallion is 1½"
diameter, 3/16" thick, made of solid bronze. The cost was 50p each if
you also sent in 15 empty packets of Soccer Stars 80 stickers (a
reduction from the Price List of
£1.99). Set size: 22. A wooden presentation case was available for the set. |
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| Panini | |
| Football 80. Set size: 582. |
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| Sigma | |
| Action Portraits of
Famous Footballers.
Described as a set of 'sixty postacards' these portrait cards were drawn
by Barrie Cutler with text by Keith Parsons. The set was produced in
association with 'The Supporters Football Form Book and Diary, 1979-80
edition'. The set was printed in Great Britain by Prescott-Pickup & Co.
Ltd., Bridgnorth. Sigma Sport Silhouettes Limited had an address of 'Stanmore Industrial Estate, Bridgnorth, Salop, England', but not much more is known about them. The introduction to the album for these cards states 'Nearly four years ago our associated Company published the first in a uniform series of books for collectors and enthusiasts in which could be mounted sets of sixty different postcard size colour prints. So far these collections have treated transport and historical subjects exclusively, but from the inception of the series we have been asked repeatedely to include sport, including football'. The publishers also state 'This first collection is intended to be representative only - a difficult enough task in itself - but successive annual sets of sixty portraits will fill out the gaps...'. The Foreword ends 'It is possible that this First Edition will become a collectors item since it is restricted in number and it is being offered for sale only to readers of certain provincial newspapers'. How true.... Unfortunately there is no record of subsequent productions. Set size: 60 |
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| Topps Chewing Gum | |
| Footballers (Pale
blue backs). A set comprising individual footballers from the First
and Second Divisions. Cards 376 to 396 are Team Checklists. The cards have '©
1979 Topps Chewing Gum Inc.' printed on the back.
Set size: 396 |
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| Transimage | |
| Football 79/80.
An enormous set of small stickers, 528 in total, most of which were issued in pairs. The
collection includes 1st, 2nd and 3rd Division team players,
International Action and International Stars, Scottish Premier Division
team players, and composite pictures of the England, Northern Ireland,
Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. The stickers came in packets, with 8 stickers for 6p. The stickers were pre-glued i.e. they had peelable backs. The album for these stickers was printed in Italy, and cost 15p from 'your local shop'. Transimage operated a Collectors Service whereby you could order missing stickers. This service operated from 1 October 1979 to 1 April 1980. In many ways its a pity that this collection didn't catch on, since it showed great promise. Set size: 528 stickers |
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| Waddington | |
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Top Trumps - British Stars, Set 1.
A set of 32 cards in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. Set size: 32 |
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Top Trumps - British Stars, Set 2.
A set of 32 cards in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. Set size: 32 |
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