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AUCTION No.397
CATALOGUE PRICE - £1.50
MURRAY CARDS (INTERNATIONAL) LTD
51, Watford Way, Hendon Central, London NW4 3JH
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Auction No. 397 - Sunday 21st March 2010
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A POSTAL AUCTION of CIGARETTE & OTHER TRADE CARDS
Closing date for bids; 23:59 on
SUNDAY, 21st March 2010
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AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
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 008 - Pritchard & Burton. Beauties “PAC”
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 011 - Ray. War Series
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 056 - Duke (U. S. A.). Actors and Actresses, Series 2.
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 057 - Wills. Cricketers, 1896
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 058 - Bigg. Life on Board a Man of War
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 101 - Duke (U. S. A.). Floral Beauties
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 102 - Taddy. Coronation Series
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 107 - Phillips. Indian Series
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 139 - Carreras. Flags (Dominoes)
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 143 - Kimball (U. S. A.). Dancing Women
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 210 - Hill. Boer War Generals
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 211 - Lea. More Lea’s Smokers
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 212 - Franklyn Davey. Wild Animals of the World
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 263 - Hill. Japanese Series
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 360 - Wills (Scissors). Indian Regiments
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 397 - Taddy. South African Cricket Team, 1907
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 415 - Burstein Isaacs. Famous Prize Fighters
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 426 - Wills (Scissors). Sporting Girls
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 441 - Taddy. Dogs
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 444 - Cope. Dickens Gallery
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MURRAY’S MARCH MEGA SALE
Top place in a superb auction goes this time to cricket, with an exceptional set of the Wills 1896 Cricketers, the core of any collection. There are also other sets ranging from Taddy South Africans to the issues by Carreras. Soccer is however also prominent, and this month there are unusual issues from Malta, Belgium and the Channel Islands in addition to a gramophone recording by Frank Moss, a set of Gallaher Association Football Colours and 100 green backed Famous Footballers, type cards from Swettenham and a set of a & B C Gum Star Players. The continuing rugby collection produces for this month a Taddy South African set, some New Zealand players from the same issuer and no less than 17 H. C. Lloyd Devon Footballers. Australian rules is represented by a Carreras set of Personality Series, while boxing weighs in with the Burstein Isaacs Famous Prize Fighters.
The main weight of this month’s sale is however the shear number of good tobacco sets. These include Taddy Dogs, Coronation Series, Russo Japanese (26-50), Famous Actors and Actresses, Territorial Regiments and Orders of Chivalry 1st. Other exceptional sets are Lea More Lea’s Smokers, Pritchard & Burton Beauties “PAC”, Robinson Nature Studies, Ray War Series, Franklyn Davey Wild Animals and Hill Japanese Series (coloured) as well as Boer War Generals and Flags with Soldiers. There is a set from Denmark by Lambert & Butler (Danish Arms) and from India by Wills are Indian Regiments and Sporting Girls, while the same issuer provides Kings & Queens and Locomotives. Elsewhere one can find Player Famous Authors and Poets, Faulkner Our Gallant Grenadiers, Cope Chinese Series and Dickens Gallery, Churchman Boy Scouts (2 series), Biggs Life on Board a Man of War and Phillips Indian Series. Finally there are Cohen Weenen Celebrities, Carreras unissued Flag Dominoes, Ardath Great War Series and the same subject from Gallaher (both sets), Baker beauties of all Nations and Edwards Ringer & Bigg Flags, Abbeys and Castles & Dogs (yes, the rare Exmoor Hunt back).
Trade cards are not forgotten, and these range in scarcity and age from Home & Colonial War Series to periodical issues and Barratt & Primrose sets, via Maynards Girls of all Nations, Thurmer & Symes Ocean Giants and Somportex Thunderbirds.
Interesting type cards also are featured in the sale. British tobacco names include Illingworth, Shepherd, Southgate, Salmon & Gluckstein (Star Girls) and Walkers, while unusual trade issuers are Batger, Allen, Almond and Bateys. The U. S. A. is also well represented, with cards from Pilkinton, Hessnauer, Drummond, Hess and even “Just So”.
Among the other overseas cards are offerings from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, India, Japan, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, San Salvador, South Africa, Spain Uruguay and Venezuela. The scarcest U. S. A sets are Duke Actors and Actresses and Floral Beauties, as well as Kimball Dancing Women, while there is a Kinney Leaders album and a fine selection of post war gum sets from Bowman, Topps and Fleer.
Among other items of note are Guinea Golds (including some scarce numbers), Sweet Cigarette Packets, Gum wrappers, advertising postcards and unusual cigarette packets. Silks and the like are especially prominent with many items from the U. S. A. as well as a number of sets in exceptional condition from Godfrey Phillips. And there are lots more items of interest, scarce and less so, among the 469 varied lots.
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