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1949-50 Collectables

FOOTBALL FAVOURITES
Soccer Snapshots
Eric Parsons
 
L.T.A. ROBINSON Ltd
Football Stars of Today and Tomorrow
44 Footballers, gold framed, two sided "paper inserts". Colour to front, Black and White picture and text to reverse.
Originally published in booklet form.
Ernie Gregory 
(They Shall not Pass Defenders)
 
Album
L.T.A. ROBINSON
Meet the Soccer Stars
44 Footballers, gold framed, two sided "paper inserts". Colour to front, Black and White picture and text to reverse.
Originally published in booklet form.
Eric Parsons
(Trustful Wingers)
Album
SPORT
Team Picture Books
Series of 36 team photos. These are usually found loose, being trimmed from the original booklets they were issued within.
Some are found with the additional left-hand border with the staple holes which held the booklet together.
The West Ham United team group picture was issued in Booklet No.3, along with Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Notts County,
Southampton and Queens Park Rangers.
Cover of Booklet No.6
West Ham United
SUNDAY EMPIRE NEWS
The Book of Famous Footballers of Today
Numbered series of 48 caricature drawings illustrated by "Mickey Durling"
Issued in booklet form, plain anonymous backs
39. Dick Walker
44. Eric Parsons
The Sunday Empire Newspaper was founded in 1884 in Manchester as The Umpire. A penny newspaper, it was the first successful provincial Sunday newspaper in England. Owned by H. S. Jennings, the Umpire was subtitled "A Sporting, Athletic, Theatrical and General Newspaper", and focussed on sports and theatre news.
The paper was renamed the Sunday Empire News in 1944, but in 1950 became the Empire News and the Umpire and in 1953 was back to being the Empire News. In 1955, the Sunday Chronicle was merged with the Empire News, and the paper's title became the Empire News and the Sunday Chronicle. Roy Thomson bought the paper in 1959, but he merged it into the News of the World in 1960.

Periodicals

THE SPORTING MIRROR
21 October 1949
SPORT
(Magazine)
SPORTING MIRROR
(Magazine)
18 -24 November 1949
27 January 1950

Terry Woodgate

WEST HAM UNITED                                                 ONLINE MUSEUM

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