$2.8M Baseball Card Honus Wagner T206 and Rare Vintage Sports Card Set Boxing Golf Billiards Football Major Drapking Cigarette Cards

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This is a very rare sports card set, so rare that it’s taken me seven years to get it. This set forms a card game, Sporting Snap. If you don’t know how to play, I was lucky enough to get the original instruction leaflet which, according to the backs of the cards, was “obtainable from all tobacconists”. It is now very scarce in its own right.

The most sought after cards in this set are the baseball cards. You won’t find any Honus Wagner cards amongst these ones but they are still very difficult to get hold of in this great condition.As many of you know, a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card was the first card to fetch more than $1M at auction in the year 2000 and would more than double this in 2007, when it reached $2.8M. As well as featuring several baseball cards, this card set also covers many other sports, such as association football, rugby, tennis, boxing, golf, water-polo, billiards and racing etc.

Major Drapkin, The Game of Sporting Snap, 1928 (40 cards)

Includes:Soccer (Association Football), Rugger (Rugby), Cricket, Tennis, Boxing, Baseball, Golf, Water-Polo, Billiards, Horse Racing

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Rare 1900′s Harry Houdini $2000.00 Trading Card Memorabilia 1924 Frys Magic Tricks and Puzzles Cigarette Cards

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Trading cards and cigarette cards were issued on a huge array of subjects, including that which has fascinated mankind since the beginning of time, magic. As with many card collecting subjects, there are certain cards that fetch colossal amounts of money. With baseball cards it’s Honus Wagner, one of which was the first card to exceed $1M, on eBay. With magic cards, the most sought after celebrity is Harry Houdini. His magic is still working after all these years as his cards conjure up nearly $2000.00 for a 1902 Ogden’s Guinea Gold card depicting him and almost £100.00 for a rare 1922 Boy’s Cinema (periodical) Famous Heroes card featuring this legendary man.

Although I, unfortunately, don’t have any Houdini cards in my collection, I do have a very rare Fry’s Tricks and Puzzles (Black Back), issued in 1924, just two years before Houdini’s death. This set includes fifty tricks/puzzles: disappearing coins, playing cards that produce smoke rings, dancing paper fairies, impossible handcuffs, bringing paper snakes to life and many more. One card also includes the politically incorrect act of creating silhouettes of different ethnic groups out of a candle and screwed up newspaper, not recommended these days. The backs of the cards in this set, as well as describing each trick and puzzle in detail , also advertise Fry’s “Cube Block Chocolate”, priced at just six pence each.


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Ogden's Guinea Gold , New Series 1 B (featuring Harry Houdini), 1902

Boys Cinema , Famous Heroes (featuring Harry Houdini), 1922

JS Fry & Sons Ltd , Tricks and Puzzles (Black Back), 1924 (50 cards)

Includes:Sixpence and Card Trick, Mr, Roly Poly, The Surplus Spill, The Fairy Dancers, Chalk Line Puzzle, Handcuff Puzzle, The Mesmerised Match Box, The Miraculous Apple, The Travelling Cubes of Sugar, Can you Count?, The Wandering Ace, The Q Trick, To make Smoke Rings, The Rising Flood, Pricking the Garter, The Vanishing Coin, A Square Puzzle, The Floating Needle, Cut String Restored or Vanishing Knot, The Magic Match, Gravity Dafied, Bottle Coin and Match Trick, The Disappearing Shilling, Philosphy Cheated, The Magic Bond, The Travelling-Coin, The Mesmerised Walking Stick, The Vanishing Egg, The Penetrating Smoke, The Indestructible Star, The Penetrable Matches, The Erratic Egg, The Magic Ring, The Restored Handkerchief, The Torn Paper Puzzle, The Cut Finger Joke, The Incombustible Handkerchief, The Revolving Serpent, Hot is it done?, The Watch Trick, The Ridiculous Rings, The Magical Adhesion,The Cigarette Joke, The Wonderful Designer, The Tantalising Cork, The Magic Penny, The Intoxicated Wine Glass, One Two Three Gone, The Restored Slip of Paper

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Roaring Twenties: 1920's Glamour and Bathing Costumes Vintage Erotica Risque Photos Cigarette Cards

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Whilst men went off to fight in WW1, women were involved in a more subtle war closer to home. Women filled many of the new job vacancies left by male war recruits. This role changing achieved more than any amount of suffragette campaigning in re-shaping the public attitude towards the female gender. Surely it wasn’t just a coincidence that women from many countries won the right to vote soon after the WW1 ended.

Women’s rebelliousness and new found freedoms dramatically influenced female fashion in the 1920s, taking on a more androgynous look. Their hair became shorter and their clothing much more daring than before WW1.

Luckily, women didn’t desert their femininity completely, as these lovely late 1920’s cigarette

Real Photos (Glamour) (Space on back), RJ Hill, 1930, 42 cards

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Famous Footballers In the 1920s ( Hughie Gallacher ) On Cigarette cards by Gallaher

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Association football (soccer) started in the back yards of Victorian British public schools, but went on to become a global phenomenon for poor and rich alike. This happened in less than 100 years.

The most complete pictorial record of the early 20th century football pioneers can be found on cigarette cards and trading cards. These cards were issued at a time when television and radio were non-existent and colourless newspapers were read by the educated few. Gallaher was one of the firms that produced a number of footballer sets, including “Famous Footballers”, 1926. Although famous in their day, Hughie Gallacher is one of the few from this set to go on to become a timeless legend.

Gallaher, Famous Footballers (Brown Back, 50 cards), 1926

Includes:Josepth Smith of Bolton Wanderers,William Clunas of Sunderland,Harry Healless,Harry Storer Derby County,Fred W Kean of Sheffield Wednesday,John Duncan of Leicester City,Chas M Buchan of Arsenal,Donald McKinlay of Liverpool,John H Hill of Burnley,Hunter, Hart of Everton,Fred WM Reed of West Bromwich Albion,WMH Walker of Aston Villa,William Gillespie of Sheffield United,Francis Womack of Birmingham,Clement Stephenson of Huddersfield Town,William Stage of Bury,Fred C Keenor of Cardiff City,Sydney M Bishop, of Leicester City,Hugh Gallacher of Newcastle United,John E Elkes of Tottenham Hotspurs,Robert S Wallace of Nottingham Forest Notts Forest,John Priestley of Chelsea,James McMullan of Manchester City Leonard F Oliver of Fulham,William Birrell of, Middlesbrough,George C Harkus of Southampton,William Ashurst,John Maddock of Port Vale,Michael Gilhooley of Bradford City,Lawrence H Baker of Barnsley,Thomas Greaves of Darlington,William R Wainscoat of Leeds United,Arthur Wood of Clapton Orient,, John J Hardy of Grimsby Town,Joseph Sykes of Swansea Town,Sydney Binks of Blackpool,Robert M Eggo of Reading,Henry Wilson of South Sheilds,Frank Barson of Manchester United,James Martin of Portsmouth,Samuel Wynne of Oldham Athletic,Matthew Bell of Hull

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