1960's Elvis Presley and Tommy Steele 1st Ever British Rock and Roll Star ABC Trading Cards 1962

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This trade card set includes one of the most instantly recognisable personalities from the Rock ‘n’ Roll era, Elvis Presley. As you can imagine, cards depicting Elvis are very collectable and some fetch high prices at auction. Cliff Richard, pictured on card #6, was Britain’s answer to Elvis during his early career. He’s sold over 260 million records worldwide and he’s still going strong today, but I think he’s dropped the Elvis impersonation. Card #1 appropriately features Britain’s first rock and roll star, Tommy Steele.

Lonnie Donegan was known as the “King of Skiffle” and started performing before many of the singers featured in this card set. In fact, he is often cited as a large influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s, such as the Beatles. This set also includes the chart toppers Adam Faith and Anthony Newley, both of whom were involved in acting as well as music.

Max Bygraves is mainly known as a comedian but also extended his repertoire to include singing and acting. Other British Comedians in this set include Charlie Drake and Arthur Haynes.

ABC Cinemas, Colorstars (Including Elvis Presley), 1962 (10 cards)

Includes:Tommy Steele, Elvis Presley, Cheyenne, Lonnie Donegan, Max Bygraves, Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, Anthony Newley, Charlie Drake, Arthur Haynes

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Sexy 1930's Movie Stars Joan Crawford Marlene Dietrich Vintage Erotica Risque Cigarette Cards

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What links this card set to the multi Oscar winning film The Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. What connection do these humble cards that would have appeared in peoples’ homes across the country in 1930’s Britain have with Flash Gordon or Trazan and the Apeman. All will be revealed shortly.

I’ve done quite a few videos of vintage glamour card sets but this one is extra special because many of the beautiful ladies featured were also highly talented movie super stars, including Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich, both of whom started their careers during the Silent Era.

Gloria Stuart’s career was also very enduring, spanning 80 years. She appeared as 100-year-old Rose in her Academy Award nominated role in the film Titanic, 1997.

Priscilla Lawson also appeared in an iconic drama, playing the role as Princess Aura in the original Flash Gordon serial, 1936.Maureen Paula O’Sullivan, considered to be Ireland’s first movie star, starred as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller.

Claudette Colbert, a self confessed workaholic, was one of the best paid performers of the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, many of the women in this card set were considered to be the most beautiful women in the world. Clara Bow was a leading sex symbol during the Silent Era and continued to make movie appearances in the early 1930s. Betty Grable’s iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era and her legs were famously insured for $1M with Lloyds of London.

Not all the movie stars in this set had long careers, but that doesn’t necessary make them any less iconic. Carole Lombard was an extremely gifted actress whose life was tragically cut short by the crash of TWA Flight 3 in 1942.

Carreras, Film Stars, 2nd Series, 1939 (54 cards)

Includes:Adrienne Ames,Rose Asther,Pearl Argyle,Rosemary Ashlen,Wendy Barrie,Joan Blondell,Clara Bow,Grace Bradley,Mary Carlyle,June Clyde,Claudette Colbert,Joan Crawford,Olivia De Havilland,Frances Dee,Dolores Del Rio,Florence Desmond,Dallas Dexter, Marlene Dietrich,Adrienne Dore,Frances Drake,Ann Dvorak,Deanna Durbin,Patricia Ellis,Alice Faye,Grace Ford,Betty Furness,Betty Grable,Jean Gillie,Shirley Grey,Suzanne Kaaren,Evelyn Kelly,June Knight,Dorothy Lamour,Priscilla Lawson,Margaret Lindsay, Carole Lombard,Ida Lupino,Marian Marsh,Joan Marsh,Karen Morley,Sari Maritza,Marion Martin,Anna Neagle,Cecelia Parker,Jean Parker,Lilian Harvey,Lilian Porter,Maureen O'Sullivan,Elivina Shargood,Gloria Stuart,Raquelle Torres,Toby Wing,Terry Walker, Doris Weston

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1950's Comedians Benny Hill Film Stars Pat Boone Terry Thomas Memorabilia Snap Gum Trading

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This set features many celebrities who were popular in the 1950s and beyond and was issued by Snap Gum in 1959. Benny Hill, pictured in this set, was a very popular English comedian. His infectious cheeky humour, songs and impressions kept him on British television screens for 40 years. He had many high profile fans, including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson, Burt Reynolds, Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney. Unfortunately, Hill became one of the many comedic victims of the rising wave of British political correctness and alternative comedy during the late 1980s. Following the cancellation of his show in 1989, Hill’s health declined and he died just a few years later.

This card set also features other English comedians, such as Arthur Haynes and Tommy Trinder. Two of England’s most loved comedy actors also make an appearance, including Bernard Bresslaw, who was a regular on the much loved British “Carry On” film series and Terry Thomas, famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of the upper classes.

This set also features several popular music stars, including Connie Francis, the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s; Pat Boone, who was the second biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley; and Lonnie Donegan, the “King of Skiffle”, who influenced many of the famous British bands of the 1960s.

The first half of the set includes photographic style images of the celebs and the 2nd half shows the same celebrities again but in the form of dot-to-dot images for the recipient to trace through to reveal the stars.

Snap Cards Gum, Dotto Celebrities, Benny Hill, 1959 (50 cards)

Includes:Benny Hill, Pat Boone, Connie Francis, Lonnie Donegan, Terry Thomas, Tommy Trinder, Arthur Haynes, Patricia Driscoll, David Whitfield, John Skeaping, Robin Day, Frankie Vaughan, Macdonald Hobley, Bruce Forsyth, Jack Jackson, Willoughby Goddard, Dickie Henderson, Richard Green, Bernard Bresslaw (Carry On film series), Conrad Phillips, Carol Naish, Ron Randall, Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Broderick Crawford,

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Pre WW2 Police of the World USA New York NYPD Ireland Iraq UK Palestine History Memorabilia

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Not many cigarette card sets were issued on the police.

Cope Bros, The World's Police, 1937 (25 cards)

Includes Police From The Following Countries:England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irish Free State, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Gold Coast, Soudan, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Soudan, Iraz, Palestine, USA, Burma, Federated Malay States (Malaysia), France, Holland,Greece, Sweden, Fiji Islands, Italy, Argentina

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Buiding WW2 Fighter Planes Bombers Life In the RAF 1930's Royal Air Force Cigarette Cards

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This detailed set shows life in the Royal Air Force prior to WW2

Cigarette Cards, W.A. & A.C. Churchman, The RAF At Work (48 cards), 1937

Includes:Fitters and Riggers Inspecting Fairey Battle Aircraft, Vickers Wellesley Bomber, Overseas Fitters Working on Rolls-Royce Kestrel Engine, Repairing Aeroplane in Desert, Overseas Motor Transport Fitters Repairing RAF Car, Repairing Machine Guns, Adjusting Torpedo, Wheeling Torpedo into Position, Instrument Makers Testing Gyroscopes, Instrument Maker Working Engraving Machine, Testing Revolution Indicator With Stroboscope, Adjusting Automatic Control, Calibrating Air-speed Indicator, Testing Air-speed Indicator, Sergeant Blacksmith at Work, Metal Worker Welding With High-Pressure Acetylene, Wireless Operator Mechanic Adjusting Wireless Set, Flight Mechanics Installing Engine in Test Bench, Flight Mechanic Examining Instrument Panel of Test Bench, Installing Engine Into Airframe, Maintenance of Engine and Testing Wireless Set, Starting Engine, Refuelling Aircraft, Refuelling Aeroplane in Desert, Inspecting Short Singapore III Flying-Boat, Flight Riggers Under Instruction at Henlow, Removing Wheel From
Undercarriage, Flight Riggers Topping-up Oleo-Leg, Wireless Operator Testing Installation, Cooks at Work, Parachute Repair Flight, Final Inspection of Pilot Parachute, Fabric Workers Covering Wing, Coxswain in Charge of Flying-boat Tender, Motor Boat and Crew, Machine Tool Setter Working on Lathe, Driver In Charge of Mobile Crane, Driver At Wheel of RAF Fire-Engine, Sergeant Pilot, Corporal Air Gunner Practising With Camera Gun, Airman Swinging the Aircrew, Parachute Jumping, Short Sunderland Flying-Boat, Lowering Float-Plane on to Sea, Army Co-Operation Aeroplane Picking Up Message, Armoured Cars Crossing The Desert, Airmen's Club At Abu Sueir in Egypt

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1920's Warriors Native Americans Zulus Papuan Headhunters Cossacks DC Thomson The Rover Comic Trading

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Great set of warrior cards with a Wild West themed sectional back, great if you're into jigsaws

The Rover Comic (D.C. Thomson), Warrior Cards (Sectional Picture Back)

Includes: Life Guardsman (Britain), "Sioux - Red Indian", Sikh Officer - Punjab, Zulu Fighter, Gordon Highlander, Dervish - Sudan, Foreign Legion - France, Australian Aborigine, Gurkha - Nepal, Solomon Islander, Spahi - North Africa, Patagonian - South America, Cossack - Russia, Papuan Headhunter - New Guinea, Bersaglieri - Italy, Abyssinian Giant, Bengal Lancer, Dayak - Borneo, British Marine, Congo Pigmy, British Airman (Airforce), Afridi - Himalayas, Zouave - Algeria, Tuareg - Sahara Desert

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$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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