Unknown Issuers - Italian cards (2)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI9CNrsNXsnT0kowxN8ck_zaMAeZQmDa5enKd9_-IKLJ81tZkwJpwquniu2aiBywZ8Fd_NTQ6TyicLUyu-HaxKJ7p1g-CsUbKovjJLbdjLVhy9SbnXsRkfIdfmFGXHP8pOvwchYhl8RtM/s1600/Unknown+Italian+cards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI9CNrsNXsnT0kowxN8ck_zaMAeZQmDa5enKd9_-IKLJ81tZkwJpwquniu2aiBywZ8Fd_NTQ6TyicLUyu-HaxKJ7p1g-CsUbKovjJLbdjLVhy9SbnXsRkfIdfmFGXHP8pOvwchYhl8RtM/s640/Unknown+Italian+cards.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1950s/60s</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Calciotori/Footballers</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Unknown issuers</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Italy</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manfred De Maker has been in touch about this item....</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I stumbled on a very interesting site about Italian soccer cards. It was in Italian so I couldn't read it, but it was nice to it. When I saw on your blog questions about some Italian cards I wrote the owner of the site for some help. And I just got his mail. You can find below the information.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manfred</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>From: UB</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Dear Manfred, here it is the complete answer to your questions.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>1a and 1b. I confirm the production NANNINA, 100 cards printed in 1957-58 and 1958-59. The two cards were identical in both the series.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>2a. As I expected, it is not a Nannina card, but again Tuttocalcio CICOGNA. A series of 100 cards but from 1957-58 (I repeat, this was the first year John Charles played in Italy, with Juventus).</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>2b. I said that is was surely CICOGNA  but I have made a mistake. This is a card from STELLA (the third Italian producer at that time of this kind of cards), a series of 40 cards from 1959-60 (my friend is the most competent in this subject!). There exist even in a version in white and red.</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>3a. I confirm the production Tuttocalcio CICOGNA, 100 cards, but this Hitchens card belongs to the series 1963-64 (the second year Gerry Hitchens played with Torino), and NOT 1962-63. I did confuse the question of the smaller character and bigger character for the name of the player: big for 1959-60, 1961-62 and 1962-63, small for 1960-61 and 1963-64 (the cards were identical under any other characteristic).</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>3b. Correspondingly, I confirm the production Tuttocalcio CICOGNA, 100 cards, but printed in 1961-62 (when John Charles was indeed a Juventus player).</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>UB</i></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>

Unknown Issuers - Italian cards (2)

1950s/60s Calciotori/Footballers Unknown issuers Italy Manfred De Maker has been in touch about this item.... Last week I stumbled on a very...

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