Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) - Famous Footballers

<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/AVvXsEi2ygC98sWPAKrJzkIcXzp9tEtyl8uMvLVrAtokvqC-k_uMVC8J2F_pC3It8m2cQQZP32TlIRb09_uyAF__bUHVqRk2u9EEQGHSFLw4Qe-K0E-1k7iEnThp51rwfTJdtPPPZI5cy_in_1IV/s1600/88-89+Gary+Linekers+Hot-Shot+League+Ladders0002a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ygC98sWPAKrJzkIcXzp9tEtyl8uMvLVrAtokvqC-k_uMVC8J2F_pC3It8m2cQQZP32TlIRb09_uyAF__bUHVqRk2u9EEQGHSFLw4Qe-K0E-1k7iEnThp51rwfTJdtPPPZI5cy_in_1IV/s400/88-89+Gary+Linekers+Hot-Shot+League+Ladders0002a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1951</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Famous Footballers</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Carreras (Turf Cigarettes)</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>50</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another collection from Carreras, printed on the cigarette card slide. There is one card available with a variation, which is listed at the bottom. As with the Footballers set, these can be found in four different formats and they are listed here in the pairings as they were printed on the slides.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.  John Aston (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">27.  Nat Lofthouse (Bolton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.  Willie Redpath (Motherwell)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">40.  Eddie Baily (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.  Laurie Reilly (Hibernian)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">32.  Neil Franklin (Hull City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.  J. McPhail (Glasgow Celtic)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">31.  Les Medley (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5.  Johnny Carey (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">39.  Jack Lee (Derby County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6.  Willie Waddell (Glasgow Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29.  Willie Bauld (Heart of Midlothian)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.  Allen Brown (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26.  Alf Sherwood (Cardiff City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.  Ron Burgess (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36.  Laurie Hughes (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.  Willie Woodburn (Glasgow Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">35.  Len Shackleton (Sunderland)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10.  George Young (Glasgow Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33.  Jack Froggatt (Portsmouth)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.  Johnny Morris (Derby County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">46.  Gordon Smith (Hibernian)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12.  W. McNaught (Raith Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28.  Bert Williams (Wolverhampton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13.  Bobby Evans (Glasgow Celtic)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">42.  Jimmy Dickinson (Portsmouth)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14.  Johnny Hancocks (Wolverhampton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">37.  Frank Bowyer (Stoke City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15.  H. Cockburn (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">34.  Alf Ramsey (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16.  Ted Ditchburn (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">47.  Billy Wright (Wolverhampton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17.  Wally Barnes (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30.  Wilf Mannion (Middlesbrough)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.  Redfern Froggatt (Sheffield Wednesday)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">43.  Billy Liddell (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19.  Roy Bentley (Chelsea)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50.  Leon Leuty (Notts County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20.  Bobby Langton (Bolton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">44.  W. Watson (Sunderland)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21.  Jackie Milburn (Newcastle United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">45.  Roy Paul (Manchester City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22.  Stan Mortensen (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">49.  Harry Johnston (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23.  Billy Steel (Dundee)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">48.  J. Vernon (West Bromwich Albion)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24.  Trevor Ford (Sunderland)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">41.  Tom Finney (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25.  Bill Eckersley (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38.  Eddie Turnbull (Hibernian)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLX_vG_-rdw437KxKtmRfYNPwQTGldQxNblwn2UsdVdwCpR4urMPvC-7ZuvNqmDEoQlCkvrbGUWSsnb32c9KkJTSdgiVnwR8uva1LU-0aGjJ6_gcgCaOec8W-NmH1xFzhlHO-bgtkjWeG/s1600/51+Carreras+-+Famous+Footballers+-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipLX_vG_-rdw437KxKtmRfYNPwQTGldQxNblwn2UsdVdwCpR4urMPvC-7ZuvNqmDEoQlCkvrbGUWSsnb32c9KkJTSdgiVnwR8uva1LU-0aGjJ6_gcgCaOec8W-NmH1xFzhlHO-bgtkjWeG/s320/51+Carreras+-+Famous+Footballers+-07.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Famous Footballers - Turf Cigarettes - errors/varieties</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.  Allan Brown (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.  Allen Brown (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) - Famous Footballers

1951 Famous Footballers Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) 50 Another collection from Carreras, printed on the cigarette card slide. There is one ca...

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Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) - Footballers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><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/AVvXsEg7g_k3NMPZWi045i4A-o7NN8-Wu0BEj3KvL2juwrL6DDSdmKjcsrVv1DoS7da60Iz0Yu_tMtNIKPH7ctYBU20i16wg_QDXz7YgKpf-_8dUxqVL4znu47mfWFuHBP-Q1Fx-K6KC1B21zyD0/s1600/88-89+Gary+Linekers+Hot-Shot+League+Ladders0001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7g_k3NMPZWi045i4A-o7NN8-Wu0BEj3KvL2juwrL6DDSdmKjcsrVv1DoS7da60Iz0Yu_tMtNIKPH7ctYBU20i16wg_QDXz7YgKpf-_8dUxqVL4znu47mfWFuHBP-Q1Fx-K6KC1B21zyD0/s640/88-89+Gary+Linekers+Hot-Shot+League+Ladders0001a.jpg" width="366" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1948</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Footballers</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Carreras (Turf Cigarettes)</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>50</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very few cigarette cards were produced after the end of World War II. There was a major paper shortage and one company in particular got around this process by printing cards on the slides of cigarette packets. This series of Footballers can be found in four different formats - cut to single cards, cut to double cards and the complete slides from packets of 10 and 20 cigarettes. I've compiled this checklist in pairs as they can be found.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.  Joe Mercer  (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.  Billy Steel (Derby County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.  Willie Waddell (Glasgow Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13.  Jack Vernon (West Bromwich Albion)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.  Jessie Pye  (Wolverhampton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14.  Stan Mortenson (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.  Tommy Lawton (Notts County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10.  George Young (Glasgow Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5.  Frank Swift (Manchester City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16.  Ronnie Rooke (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6.  John Carey (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manchester </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">United) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15.  Albert Stubbins (Liverpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7  Dennis Compton (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.  Morris (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.  J. Harvey (Newcastle United) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12.  A.T. Sherwood (Cardiff City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17.  Frank Brennan (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newcastle United</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25.  Reg Lewis (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.  B. Mozley (Derby County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29.  E. Quigley (Sheffield Wednesday)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19. Ron Burgess (Tottenham Hotspur) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">27.  Trevor Ford (Aston Villa)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20.  Laurie Scott (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">31.  E. Lowe (Aston Villa)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21.  Ivor Powell (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Queens Park Rangers</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">32.  J. Aston (</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manchester United</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22.  Jack Rowley (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28.  A. Brown (Burnley)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23.  H. Cockburn (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30.  Alec Forbes (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24.  Neil Franklin (Stoke City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">26.  G. Lowrie (Newcastle United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33.  David Shaw (Hibernian)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">48.  Andy McLaren (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">34.  Stan Pearson (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">47.  Ted Ditchburn (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">35.  George Hardwick (Middlesbrough)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">46.  Peter Doherty (Huddersfield Town)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36.  Stanley Matthews (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">45.  Ronnie Allen (Queens Park Rangers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">37.  Leon Leuty (Derby County)  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">43.  R. Langton (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38.  Len Shackleton (Sunderland)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">42.  W.E. Nicholson (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">39.  Jimmy Delaney (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">41.  Tom Finney (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">40.  D. Lishman (Arsenal)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">44.  Roy Bentley (Chelsea)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">49.  Harry Johnston (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50.  J.G. Taylor (Fulham)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

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1948 Footballers Carreras (Turf Cigarettes) 50 Very few cigarette cards were produced after the end of World War II. There was a major paper...

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