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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WW1 Cavalry Regimental Uniforms Horses Lancers Artillery Cossacks Russian Hussars John Player & Son Cigarette Cards

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The huge revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility. That’s why horses were still widely used in WW1. The first standard issue military tanks did not join the war effort till quite late, and even those were very experimental and caused almost as much damage to the exhaust fume poisoned operatives as they did to the enemy.

John Player and Sons issued a number of beautifully illustrated military card sets leading up to and towards the beginning of WW1. This particular set is devoted to cavalry regiments and, judging by the unusual large size of the cards, would have been issued in the extra big packets. The bumper packets were not as popular as the regular packets, explaining why these cards are quite scarce. As with the early movie studios, the card issuers were reluctant to reveal the names of their artists. They feared that their staff would ask for more money if they became celebrities in their own right. However, attitudes changed as the pressures of the free market took effect.

John Player and Son, Regimental Uniforms, 1914 (10 extra large cards)

Includes:Belgian Army - 4th Regiment of Lancers, French Army - Artillery, Belgian Army - 2nd Chasseurs a Cheval, French Army - Spahi, French Army - Chasseurs a Cheval, Indian Army - 26th King George's Own Light Cavalry - Late 1st Madras Lancers, 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers Watson's Horse - Late 13th Duke of Connaught's Bengal Lancers, Indian Army - Imperial Cadet Corps, Russian Army - Officer of Hussars, Russian Army - Trumpeter - Cossack of the Guard

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Early 1900s Ghost Train Roller Coaster Ride Folkestone Kent Railway Amusement Park Postcard

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Although Fokestone's original Victorian roller coaster ride has long since gone, it's image has been immortalised on this beautiful 1900's postcard.

Switchback Railway (early 1900's roller coaster ride) Folkestone, Kent

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