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A large set of attractive cards, issued in 3 sets. Series 1
comprises cards 1 to 84 (checklist), Series 2 cards 85 (checklist)
to 169 and Series 3 cards 170 (checklist) to 255. The galleries
available for this set include full player appearances for 1970/71
plus team results home and away, with goalscorer. |
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An attractive set of 'pin-up' posters issued with Series 1 of the
Orange Backs. |
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Very small stickers which include the instructions 'Peel off back
and rub picture with ball point'. Most of these transparencies would
have been so attached to school books and other surfaces, so very
few have survived intact. These transfers were issued with Series 2
and 3 of the Orange Backs. |
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The first large Scottish A&BC set. There are checklist cards 85
and 170, though I'm not sure if these cards were issued as two
series. |
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An attractive set of 'pin-up' posters issued with the Green
Backs. Since these pin-ups were squeezed into the bubble gum packets
they always have the creases. While the equivalent English set had
14 pin-ups the Scottish, for some reason, has 28. I'm not sure, but
suspect that the first 14 pin-ups where issued with Series 1, and
the second 14 (relabelled as 'Superstar posters') were issued with
Series 2. |
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A completely different style of cards to coincide with the World
Cup. It's difficult to tell which side of the card is the front and
which the back. One side has a feature from the World Cup, while the
other has a tip on playing better football. |
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BAB is attributed to a number of club badge stickers, though the attribution is problematic as there is no evidence on the stickers that they were made by BAB. With the discovery of Northern Trancessories it is possible that some of these stickers were produced by them rather than BAB. BAB stickers tended to be sold in plastic hanging shop displays, and it is these displays which sometimes give us the BAB name, as in the example below. |
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Soccer Dip was the name used by BAB for three stickers sold for
3p. We can guess that the word 'Dip' referred to the lucky dip
element of which stickers you bought. The stickers come with either
a white or a brown backing paper, and many different design and
colour variations, perhaps suggesting many different sets, issues or
years.These stickers are slightly larger than the yellow-topped
shields. |
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This set is printed with brown backs or white backs, suggesting
perhaps that they were produced over a number of years. The white
backs have 'FasPrint', Fasson, Leiden, Holland discernible on the
backing paper. The sides to the shields are sharp, as opposed to the
rounded sides set . There appears to be a near-identical set to this
set, but with a player image in front of the club colours instead of
the logo. |
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This set is near-identical to the previous, but with a player
image in front of the club colours instead of the logo. |
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This set is printed with white backs, with 'FasPrint', Fasson,
Leiden, Holland discernible on the backing paper. The shield designs
are different from the straight-sided sets. |
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Straight sided badges with gold borders and nicknames. Very rare
badges. |
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Unknown. These stickers look like BAB, but currently only Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United are known. Can anyone help? |
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Round stickers with the player's head, name and team name. Plain
white backs. The set clearly targets the 1970 World Cup so was
produced perhaps just before the tournament, say March 1970? |
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Round stickers with the player's head, name and team name. Plain
white backs. Same style as the international players, but players
with team name. |
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Round stickers with the player's head and name.. The word
"permanent" is in red on backs. This set is, apparently, also
available with the team name on the sticker. Quite rare! |
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Shield-shaped stickers with the player's head, name and team name
in a yellow box. Plain white backs. |
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Set issued before February 1971 (Pop Robson transferred to
West Ham in February 1971). The existence of these stickers was
unknown before November 2013. |
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Player shields. 1970 to 1974. Garishly coloured shields with
drawn player heads. Really interesting set though. Are these
really BAB? |
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A set of 22 team stickers. Each sticker consisted of a colour
player photo, two black and white player photos, and the team badge.
There was a wallchart with spaces for the 22 teams. The coupons for
the stickers were issued by the Daily Mail from September 1970. The
wallchart could be bought for 2/- from your local newsagent. |
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The curiously named Squelchers were a set of 16 booklets produced
'to squelch arguments about football'. The books were edited for
Esso by Leslie Vernon and printed in Holland by Sackville Smeets. A
blue plastic folder is available to hold all 16 booklets. |
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An album to coincide with the World Cup, including the 30-man
England squad and 16 players from each of the other qualifying
countries. The offer from FKS to help complete collections through
the order form expired in December 1970. Album: Price 2s 6d. |
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A bigger 420 sticker set, including a new Second Division Star
Gallery, European Cup Finalists and the Best Players of Mexico 70.
The phrase at the top of each card has changed from 'Apply adhesive
here only' to 'Glue here only'.The album credits Jack Rollin (later
well-known as editor of Rothmans Football Yearbooks) for the album
design and editing. At the rear of the album was a place for you to
order and stick a Second Division Team Sheet, comprising photos of
15 players on a single, large sheet. The Sheets were 2/- (10p) each,
plus 1s 6d postage and handling. Hardly any of these team sheets
have survived. Album: Price 2s 6d or 12½p. |
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A set of 40 interesting cards, given away with ice cream. These
often survive in pretty average condition, so finding a mint set is
unusual. |
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I'm going to guess that these attractive badges came in a cereal
packet. They came in pairs so there were 9 pairs, a total of 18
badges, to collect. The collectors card came from the side of a
cereal packet, so it was a clever ploy to get the boys of the day to
cajole Mum into buying more of the same cereal. The collectors card
suggests that the badges are 'of major cup winners plus the team
badges of the four home countries. Each badge has a special backing
that will stick on cloth, plastic, metal and almost anything!' The
'special backing' paper was produced by FasPrint of Fasson, Leiden,
Holland. 
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A set of 8 pamphlets available in packets of Shredded Wheat.
Apparently these pamphlets just sat inside cereal packets. I'm not
sure how they worked out if the Bob Wilson stickers were available
at the same time.The pamphlets were printed by Sir Joseph Causton
and Sons Ltd, London and Eastleigh. There are no other company names
or manufacturer indicators on these, but I am assured by a keen
cereal card collector that they did come in Shredded Wheat packets -
thanks for the information Wayne! |
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In 1970 the Sun began an interesting series of cards which you
acquired from the newspaper to stick into albums (which they called
Encyclopaedia). The first offering was a set of 134 cards covering
teams from the First, Second and Third Divisions, First Division
captains and star players and Second Division star players. The
fronts of the cards had the pictures while the backs (in various
colours) included the instructions. You obtained tokens which
appeared every day in the Sun during the 1970/71 football season and
send them away to receive some swap cards. The cards were to be
mounted in the spaces left for them in the 164-page Scrapbook
Encyclopaedia of Football (available from newsagents for 2/-). |
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A small set of 12 from the Wizard. They appear to have been cut
from a sheet, suggesting that the comic provided the reader with one
or two sheets and suggested that the cards be cut out. |
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These cards were presented in the Hornet and Hotspur comics in
blocks of 8 or 10 which were to be cut into individual cards by the
reader. Some of the uncut blocks still exist, and are quite
collectable. A plastic wallet was given away with the first sets of
cards. The cards were issued as: |
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A 16-page booklet produced as a lead-up to the Mexico World Cup (31 May to 21 June). The booklet was a free gift in the Wizard Comic dated 9 May 1970. It was printed by Buckley and Bland, Stockport. Copyright D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. 1970. |
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An interesting set of 14 small cards, plus an answer card, given
away with the Victor comic in 1970. Each card has a question on the
front in colour, and another on the back in black and white. |
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A set of small, attractive, circular cards produced in
association with World Soccer magazine. I'm not sure, but I suspect
that these were given away a few at a time attached in a card (so
that you had to remove the disks from the card). |
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