Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Yorkshire cigarette and collectors’ cards early 1900s onwards. Album comprising a comprehensive collection of over two hundred and thirty cigarette and collectors’ card, each depicting a Yorkshire cricketer. Includes a good number of earlier issues, also modern reprint issues with some cards signed. Earlier issues include Ogden’s Guinea Gold ‘Cricketers Base I’ 1901, Hawke, Hirst, Hunter. W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Cricketers’ 1901 with vignettes, Denton, Brown, Hirst, Jackson, ‘Capstan Prominent Australian and English Cricketers’ 1907 (Australian), grey caption, Denton, and ‘Cricketers’ 1908 (small ‘s’ series), Hirst. Taddy ‘County Cricketers’ 1907, Haigh, Rothery, Grimshaw, Hawke, Deyes, Bates. F. & J. Smith ‘Cricketers’ 1911, Rhodes. Murray, Sons & Co. ‘Cricketers Series H’ 1912, black front Rhodes. Reeves Chocolates ‘Cricketers’ 1912, Rhodes, Hirst. R. & J. Hill ‘Famous Cricketers’ 1923, Wilson and Macaulay. Godfrey Phillips ‘Cricketers’ 1924 brown backs, Kilner, Holmes, Sutcliffe, Dolphin, Rhodes, Waddington, Wilson, Haigh, Robinson, Macaulay, Oldroyd. Bunsen ‘Famous Figures’ 1925, Waddington. Barratt’s ‘Cricketers, Footballers & Football Teams’ 1925, Oldroyd, Rhodes & Waddington. Poppleton’s ‘Cricketers Series’ 1926, Holmes. Ogden’s ‘Cricket 1926, Sutcliffe. Hoadley’s Chocolate (Australia) ‘Cricketers’ 1933, brown fronts, Bowes, Leyland and Verity. Ardath 1938 Series ‘E’ Verity etc. Modern signed cards include Close, Illingworth, Moxon, Old, Sharpe, Hampshire, Trueman. Very good condition.