Set_Listings

Set_Name

Brand_Name

Set_Year

Rarity

Number_Issued

Example

Comment

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Football Champions

Sport Magazine

1911

9

5 known

 

This series shows photos of players heads superimposed on a smaller proportioned body.

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Australian Footballers - Pennant (Series G)

Standard Cigarettes (Sniders & Abrahams)

1911

6

60

 

These cards show head and shoulder portraits of players below a team pennant.

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Australian Footballers - Star (Series H)

Standard Cigarettes (Sniders & Abrahams)

1912

7

60

 

These cards show head and shoulder portraits of players in a star frame surrounded by club colours.

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Australian Footballers - Shield (Series I)

Standard Cigarettes (Sniders & Abrahams)

1913

7

60

 

These cards show head and shoulder portraits of players in a shield frame surrounded by club colours.

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Club Colours and Flags

W.D. & H.O. Wills

1913

5

28

 

This series shows an anonymous portrait of a player in team uniform with club colour flags appearing above the players head. Teams shown include VFL, VFA and Victorian country.

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Footballer Post Cards

Sport Magazine

1915

10

30

 

Coloured post cards showing a full length player photo posing on an oval

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Victorian League Footballers

Magpie Cigarettes (J.J.Schuh)

1920

5

60

 

This series generally shows three quarter posed action shots of VFL players. The series is one of very few to show the red, yellow and black St.Kilda Guernsey that they adopted during World War I.

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Geelong League and Association Stars

Football News

1920 cc

9

14 known

 

A rare series of newspaper inserts from the Football News newspaper issued in Geelong. They show full length portraits of players from both the Geelong VFL team and the short lived Geelong VFA team.

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Country Team Colours

Lenten's Shamrock Store

1920 cc

9

1 known

 

Only one card in this series is known to exist but there quite possibly could be one for each team competing in the Bendigo football league in Victoria. It shows vertical stripes of the team colour with a Lenten's advertisement at the bottom.

 

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