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

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024

Lot 218
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £70
Wills’s Cigarettes ‘Cricketers’ 1908. W.D. & H.O. Wills, Bristol & London. Full set of fifty numbered cigarette cards plus one variant, featuring colour player head and shoulder portraits with printed name and county to lower portion to front. All cards are small ‘s’ series. Variants of cards are no. 2 Warner with blazer, two variants of no. 4 Braund, one with cap, the other without (some wear), no. 25 Dennett with blazer. Odd faults to card no. 4, Maclaren with adhesive marks and old tape to verso, no. 24 Blythe with small tape mark to verso, no. 38 Barnes with small annotations to verso. Otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 51.

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