Lovells - Football Series (6)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlg727Z6fGBjP_3yyNZVjdlK4DWJ0fgGASjWCeqLWjCKCHsvXzDBoNZmMz7b1Q155GK8oVIx8lxcJwiSZNyvXh-9ADzg0V9SxNKWdGvFY019rePtVizUzUCBKSxNz6iZsWKU0_dCN5qs/s1600/00s+Lovell+-+Football+Series+-+Matt+Stevens2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlg727Z6fGBjP_3yyNZVjdlK4DWJ0fgGASjWCeqLWjCKCHsvXzDBoNZmMz7b1Q155GK8oVIx8lxcJwiSZNyvXh-9ADzg0V9SxNKWdGvFY019rePtVizUzUCBKSxNz6iZsWKU0_dCN5qs/s1600/00s+Lovell+-+Football+Series+-+Matt+Stevens2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1908</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Football Series</span></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lovells, Manchester & Newport</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matt Stevens has very kindly sent in a scan of three of his cards. I was going to hold on to them until I had some additional information to share, but I think this set is superb and can't wait to share these with everyone.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

Lovells - Football Series (6)

1908  Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 Matt Stevens has very kindly sent in a scan of three of his cards. I was going t...

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Lovells - Football Series (5)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKadiX0YZKkuuFm_HbkkkDCauDbAULvxKhgL2ObZZ2Tfz1OFBMQIv6xSKv3tOU00eDtwWB-KLl_hCGaiDQFxyebGE9Ne3repG2UB5Qd7ZK0oCATcPA4n837mB14KGW1DITLX2rREhUKE/s1600/08+Lovells+-+Football+Series+-+12+Roberts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKadiX0YZKkuuFm_HbkkkDCauDbAULvxKhgL2ObZZ2Tfz1OFBMQIv6xSKv3tOU00eDtwWB-KLl_hCGaiDQFxyebGE9Ne3repG2UB5Qd7ZK0oCATcPA4n837mB14KGW1DITLX2rREhUKE/s1600/08+Lovells+-+Football+Series+-+12+Roberts.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b><b>1908</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Football Series</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lovells, Manchester & Newport</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>36</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Matt Stevens has very kindly sent in details for a number of these cards. Only seven missing for a complete checklist. I've probably being working on this one for almost 30 years. Unfortunately, the only new illustrations I can show you is a black and white one.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />1.  Wee Jock Simpson (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.  J. Parkinson (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.  A. Goodard (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6.  W. Meredith (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.  Vizard (Bolton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.  Orr (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12.  C. Roberts (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13.  R. Duckworth (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14.  G. Wall (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15.  A. Robinson (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16.  J. Clennell (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17.  S. Kingsley (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.  Green (Preston North End)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19.  W. Matthews (Notts County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20.  Hugh Moffat (Oldham)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21.  M'Tavish (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22.  D. McLean (Sheffield United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23.  D. Wilson (Oldham Athletic)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24.  W. P. Eadie (Manchester City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25.  Bob Crompton (Blackburn Rovers)    <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">-   Thanks to Matt Stevens</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26.  J. Raeside (Bury)   <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   Thanks to Trevor Cotterell, Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">27.  W. Wedlock (Bristol City)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   updated   -   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28.  A. Morris (Nottingham Forest)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29.  E. Lintoth (Bradford City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">31.  T. Kelso (Man City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">32.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33.  Whiteside (Bolton Wanderers)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">34.  Smith (Fulham)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">35.  Smith (Manchester City)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   updated   -   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36.  I. Thornley (Manchester City)    <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><b>-   Thanks to Matt Stevens</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />??.  Roose (Aston Villa)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Lovells - Football Series (5)

1908 Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 Matt Stevens has very kindly sent in details for a number of these cards. Only se...

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Lovells - Football Series (4)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIP_7aXSjqUssQ_Orx2X9j0a3YALNZhMtuzs2BqkHPH7dqOa2mYm5q1h0DXC0kNG4elB1mzHWkjv3ReOFJwefTWQKZAxMylihyZBjG99-HTQ7tTiNsmDvd37FYrLrLTS8ePfQgmKq8EPMb/s1600/Lovells+Parkinson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIP_7aXSjqUssQ_Orx2X9j0a3YALNZhMtuzs2BqkHPH7dqOa2mYm5q1h0DXC0kNG4elB1mzHWkjv3ReOFJwefTWQKZAxMylihyZBjG99-HTQ7tTiNsmDvd37FYrLrLTS8ePfQgmKq8EPMb/s320/Lovells+Parkinson.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1908</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Football Series</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lovells, Manchester & Newport</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>36 cards</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Jim, from Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UnofficialLFCMuseum">The Unofficial Liverpool Football Club Museum</a>, has sent a scan of this Lovells card. Although it's included in the original partial checklist that I published some time ago, I make no excuses for showing it here. This set of cards is very, very rare and I will always take the opportunity to show cards from this series whenever they cross my patch.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

Lovells - Football Series (4)

1908 Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 cards Jim, from Facebook page  The Unofficial Liverpool Football Club Museum , ha...

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Lovells - Football Series (3)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGtxkSGaMQegC4scjmqlUP3W9VlLhP3lCqXZc93-e-37kihA4X8d6C01qAqZiL8wKbvv-bXPAClGdjlRzKdPmajDC4nQuAcCXUQOJCu76Cu0-MpACGpAYffwdfaYV8jUAuPdG4nq3RvL0/s1600/10+Lovells+-+Football+Series+23b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGtxkSGaMQegC4scjmqlUP3W9VlLhP3lCqXZc93-e-37kihA4X8d6C01qAqZiL8wKbvv-bXPAClGdjlRzKdPmajDC4nQuAcCXUQOJCu76Cu0-MpACGpAYffwdfaYV8jUAuPdG4nq3RvL0/s320/10+Lovells+-+Football+Series+23b.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1908</b><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Football Series</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lovells, Manchester & Newport</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>36 cards</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trevor Cotterell has informed me of the number of the card of one of the players listed at the bottom of the original post for this series, where the card was known to exist but the number was unknown. I haven't reproduced the whole list here. I'll do that when we get a few more cards listed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26.  J. Raeside (Bury)</span><br /><br /><br />

Lovells - Football Series (3)

1908 Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 cards Trevor Cotterell has informed me of the number of the card of one of the pl...

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Lovells - Football Series (2)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/BluebirdAl/10GFLovell-FootballSeries-15ARobinson-BlackburnRovers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/BluebirdAl/10GFLovell-FootballSeries-15ARobinson-BlackburnRovers.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>1908</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong></strong><strong style="color: purple;">Football Series</strong></span></div><div><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Lovells, Manchester & Newport</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>36</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15.  A. Robinson (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Lovells - Football Series (2)

   1908  Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 15.  A. Robinson (Blackburn Rovers)

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Lovells - Football Series

<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/BluebirdAl/08Lovell-FootballSeries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/BluebirdAl/08Lovell-FootballSeries.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>1908</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong></strong><strong style="color: purple;">Football Series</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Lovells, Manchester & Newport</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>36</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These cards were issued by Lovell's (a sweet manufacturer) around 1908. The cards are very rare and command a high price whenever they appear at auction.<br /><br />The complete set comprises of 36 cards.<br /><br />Another set that I've been trying to compile a checklist for. If anyone can help with any information I'd be glad to hear from you. <br /><br /><em>I know a few players included in the set, but don't have their card numbers, these have been added at the end of the list.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />1. Wee Jock Simpson (Blackburn Rovers)<br />2. J. Parkinson (Liverpool)<br />3. <br />4. A. Goodard (Liverpool)<br />5. <br />6. W. Meredith (Manchester United)<br />7. <br />8. Vizard (Bolton Wanderers)<br />9. Orr (Liverpool)<br />10. <br />11. <br />12. C. Roberts (Manchester United)<br />13. R. Duckworth (Manchester United)<br />14. G. Wall (Manchester United)<br />15. A. Robinson (Blackburn Rovers)<br />16. J. Clennell (Blackburn Rovers)<br />17. S. Kingsley (Preston NE)<br />18. <br />19. W. Matthews (Notts County)<br />20. Hugh Moffat (Oldham)<br />21. M'Tavish (Tottenham Hotspur)<br />22. D. McLean (Sheffield United)<br />23. D. Wilson (Oldham Athletic)<br />24. W. P. Eadie (Manchester City)<br />25. <br />26. <br />27. <br />28. A. Morris (Nottingham Forest)<br />29. E. Lintoth (Bradford City)<br />30. <br />31 T. Kelso (Man City)<br />32. <br />33. <br />34. <br />35.Wedlock (Bristol City)<br />36. <br /><br />J. Raeside (Bury)<br />Smith (Fulham)<br />Whiteside (Bolton Wanderers)<br />Roose (Aston Villa)</span></div>

Lovells - Football Series

   1908  Football Series Lovells, Manchester & Newport 36 These cards were issued by Lovell's (a sweet manufacturer) around 1908. T...

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