Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Wills’s Cigarettes ‘Cricketers Series’ 1901. W.D. & H.O. Wills, Bristol & London. Full set of fifty numbered cigarette cards featuring colour player head and shoulder portraits with printed name and county to lower portion to front, decorative floral grey/ green backgrounds. Nos. 1-25 in the series were issued with fronts in two formats, with and without vignette backgrounds. Cards with vignettes are nos. 1-7, 9, 15-18, 22, 24 and 25. Cards without vignettes are 8, 10-14, 19-21 and 23. Card nos. 26-50 all with vignettes. Card no. 45 is a portrait of G.E. Winter (Middlesex) not P.F. Warner as published. Card no. 46 of J.T. Tyldesley (Lancashire) was issued in two versions, one in error with cap badge in white, the other in red. This card is the version with white cap badge. Small adhesive marks to verso of card nos. 13 and 20. Minor wear to the odd card, otherwise in very good condition. Rare