Cardiff City Football Cards & Stickers

Friday, 17 February 2023

Godfrey Phillips Ltd - Sports Cigarettes - Footballers - 1950

Year of issue: 1950

Issued by: Sports Cigarettes (Godfrey Phillips Ltd)

Number of cards in set: 50

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Approximate value (per card):

S.W. Montgomery

A.T. Sherwood

These can be collected in five ways: as individual paper cards trimmed to the back of the packet and therefore anonymous or as complete packets that have been opened and laid flat. This collection was also issued printed on card that was used as a slide within the packet of cigarettes.

On paper - trimmed to back of the packet - with blue frameline
On card - trimmed to folds of slide
'Sports' packet - on paper 5s - with blue frameline
'Sports' packet - on paper 10s - with blue frameline
'Sports' slide - on card

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) - Footballers - 1948

Year of issue: 1948

Issued by: Turf Cigarettes (Carreras)

Number of cards in set: 50

Size:

Approximate value (per card):

No. 12 A.T. Sherwood - Cardiff City & Wales

No. 8 / N0. 12 J. Harvey - Newcastle United / A.T. Sherwood - Cardiff City & Wales

Very few cigarette cards were produced after the end of World War II. There was a major paper shortage and one company in particular got around this process by printing cards on the slides of cigarette packets. This series of Footballers can be found in four different formats - cut to single or double cards and the complete slides from packets of 10 and 20 cigarettes, which are pictured.