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1958-59 Collectables

A&BC CHEWING GUM Co Ltd
Topstars
SERIES 1
(Planet Address at top)
Numbered series of 46 cards (1-46). Head and shoulder portraits with club crest.
Front inscribed at top "Send your name... to Planet Ltd" Reverse printed in BLACK and RED.
15. John Bond
39. Malcolm Allison
Wrapper
A&BC CHEWING GUM Co Ltd
Topstars
SERIES 2
(Planet Address at top)
Numbered series of 46 cards (47-92). Head and shoulder portraits with club crest.
Front inscribed at top "Send your name... to Planet Ltd" Reverse printed in BLACK and RED.
79. Noel Cantwell
A&BC CHEWING GUM Co Ltd
Topstars
SERIES 1
(Without ..... Planet Address at top)
Numbered series of 46 cards (1-46). Head and shoulder portraits with club crest.
Front inscribed at top "Send your name... to Planet Ltd" Reverse printed in BLACK and RED.
15. John Bond
39. Malcolm Allison

Note:

Cards from TOPSTARS 1958/59 (Series 2)

were NOT issued without the Planet address at the top.

 

If you see the Noel Cantwell card for sale, without the Planet Address it will be the Series 1 card trimmed

AMALGAMATED PRESS Ltd
The "Tiger" League Ladders
The major "League Ladder" producers were CHAMPION, LION, ROVER, TIGER and VALIANT comics, 
all issued by by either Amalgamated Press / Fleetway / IPC.
West Ham United
Team Tab

Between the period 1920s to the early 1960s the comics employed 'divisional colours' to differentiate between each division of the Football League.

By 1963 it appears that team colours took precedence.

BAILEY'S AGENCIES (Stoke)
Action Transfers
These action transfers are intended to be wrapped around a ceramic mug.
The Bailey family have been involved with the ceramic transfer industry since 1948 when Kenneth Bailey started the company K.H.Bailey & Sons Ltd.
The business continues to this day as Bailey Decal Ltd and is still owned and run by the same family.
West Bromwich Albion v. West Ham United
West Ham United v. Chelsea
BARRATT & Co. Ltd
Famous Footballers Series A6
Black and White, numbered series of 60 portraits of famous footballers with facsimile autographs to base.
Album issued to accompany the series.
Size 66x35mm
8. John Bond
9. Vic Keeble
CHARLES LETTS
Diary page
The name Letts has been synonymous with diaries since the beginning of the nineteenth century.  In  1796, the founder, John, established a stationery business in the arcades of London's Royal Exchange.

The merchants and traders who frequently purchased stationery items from this shop needed a means of recording the movements of stock and controlling their finances.  John Letts responded to the needs of his merchant customers in 1812 by creating the world's first Commercial Diary.

The diary soon established itself as an essential feature of commercial life. The rapid refinement of the product, with the introduction of detailed information sections, meant that by the 1820's the first modern style diary ranges were published.
John Bond
EXPRESS WEEKLY
Kings of Sport
Series of 46 'Cut-outs' issued by Express Weekly of famous Sports personalities. Vic Keeble was inside issue No. 218 dated 22 November 1958.
Express Weekly was a British children's comic magazine published between 18 February 1956 and 20 April 1960. 
The publication was a rival to the popular 'Eagle' of 'Dan Dare' fame. After April 1960 it was renamed TV Express Weekly.
 
Vic Keeble
FLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS Ltd
Football Teams
Black and White team group, unnumbered series of 28 cards.
Anonymous plain backs. Issued with "The Lion" or "The Tiger" magazines in pairs or as blocks of four.
Caption followed by "1958-59" to front.
Size 115x89mm
West Ham United F.C. 1958-59
FLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS Ltd
Roy of the Rovers Annual
Series of 12 cut-out League Club Badges. Size when cut from book page 54x52mm
6. West Ham United
Book page
MASTER VENDING MACHINE Co. Ltd
Cardmaster Football Tips
Series of 50 cards, each card can be found with two different back variations and number. These Cardmaster Football Tip cards were issued with
Bubble Gum. The cards give no information about the player apart from the name of his club. In the case of John Bond it offered advice on card number 26.
on "How to take the ball" and on card 41. gave "Important Points for Defenders".
16. and 47. Noel Cantwell (this card has been subsequently autographed)
26. and 41. John Bond
MERRYSWEETS Ltd
Soccer Teams No. 2 Series
Coloured, numbered series of 48 team groups. Anonymous series, inscribed on reverse "2-4 Scutton Street, London E.C.2."
Special album issued to accompany the series.
Size 97x50mm
20. West Ham United
SOIREE CIGARETTES (Mauritius)
Famous Footballers
Series of 48 cards. Printed on the slider from the cigarette packet.
Image courtesy of Trevor Cotterell
37. Noel Cantwell
D.C. THOMSON & Co. Ltd
Stars of Sport and Entertainment
Black and white numbered series of 48 cards. Issued in horizontal strips of 4.
Two series each numbered 1-24 (48) inscribed on reverse with either "Presented with The (Rover or Hotspur) The Famous Boys Paper"
John Dick was issued on Sheet 5 with The Rover issue number 1741, dated 8 November 1958
18. John Dick
D.C. THOMSON & Co. Ltd
World Footballers of Tomorrow
Black and white series of 42 sportsmen. Issued on sheets of gummed stickers and given free with 'Adventure' comic during March and April 1959.
Cut the sportsmen out along the printed dotted lines to stick in the appropriate place in the album. 
25 footballers plus 17 stars from the 1958 Empire & Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff. 
 
Album
TIP TOP (Malta)
Football - Series A
Series of 25 highly collectable black and white action images. 
Size 73x45mm

The Tip Top Sales Company Valletta - Malta was set up by Joseph Xuereb.
Born in Valletta in 1931, Mr. Joseph Xuereb emigrated to Canada in 1950. Upon his return to Malta in 1956,
he opened a small shop in Valletta selling souvenirs and Tip Top was founded that year.
21. West Ham v. Norwich City
WEST HAM UNITED
Facsimile Autograph Sheet and Team Group

Periodicals

PLAYFAIR
Football Annual 1958-59
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