Set_Listing	Set_Name	Brand_Name	Set_Year	Rarity	Number_Issued	Example	Comment
mparg004	Learn Football from the Stars	Argus Weekend Magazine	1951	7	14		These supplements contained leading VFL players of the era explaining coaching tips for certain aspects of the game. The supplement showed a colour caricature of a player and then a black and white head photo of the player. Generally the black and white photo showed the same player as the caricature, but not in all cases.
mparg009	Colour Team Photos	Argus Weekend Magazine	1951	7	7 known		The team photos were not quite as consistent in 1951 as other years with 'Learn from the Stars' supplement more predominant. Still there were a number of colour team photos issued.
tcheo001	Famous Footballers	Harper's Easi Oats	1951	8	40		This series shows caricatures of leading VFL players.
tcheo002	Sth. Australian Footballers (Series 1)	Harper's Easi Oats	1951	9	36		The cartoon caricatures of SANFL players were drawn by Lionel Coventry.
tckor004	Footballers in Action (Bar)	Kornies	1951	5	64		This series was the first of three similar series of Footballers in action. The differentiating factor is the heading banner on the back of the card, this series showing as a bar. Each card has the players facsimile signature on the front. An album was issued to house the cards
otzzz004	VFL Cloth Bookmarks	(Unknown)	1952 cc	8	5 known		This series of silky cloth bookmarks shows predominantly team mascots with the team name at the top and team nickname at the bottom. The issuer is unknown as is the date of issue but the style of the mascots would suggest early to mid 1950s.
mparg005	Colour Team Photos	Argus Weekend Magazine	1952	7	19		The team photos in 1952 came in three separate subsets. Most teams appeared with player head photos spread across the page with a club mascot in the middle, but three teams appeared with the traditional style team photo as appeared in previous years. The last subset showed traditional team photos of the teams competing in the VFL finals series.
tckor005	Footballers in Action (Football)	Kornies	1952	5	64		This series was the second of three similar series of Footballers in action. The heading banner on the back of the card shows as a football. Each card has the players facsimile signature on the front. An album was issued to house the cards.
accha001	Hospital Appeal Cards	Childrens Hospital Adelaide	1952 cc	8	1 known		Only one card is known to exist in this set and it shows a black and white photo of an SANFL footballer with a circular frame surrounded by red card. It is titled 'Childrens Hospital Appeal'.
tcarg001	Football Portraits	Argus	1953	7	72		These cards could be obtained by sending in four consecutive numbered vouchers found in the Argus. Four cards were redeemed for these vouchers. Six cards from each team were issued. Smaller reproductions (110 x 75 mm) of card numbers 1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 19 and 20 were printed in the paper itself as advertisements for the set.
mparg006	Colour Team Photos	Argus Weekend Magazine	1953	7	20		Formal team photos of all the VFL teams competing that year with additional photos for teams competing in the finals series. The Footscray finals photo showed the same team photo as the earlier edition except that the head of Jack Collins had another players head superimposed on top of it as Jack was out injured at the time. The Argus also issued supplements on Victorian country towns in 1953 and the Latrobe Valley one of these contained four colour team photos of Latrobe Valley teams. Other town supplements contained black and white team photos but not ones of the quality in the Latrobe Valley supplement.
tcheo003	Sth. Australian Footballers (Series 2)	Harper's Easi Oats	1953	7	36		This series shows head and shoulder shots of SANFL players. 'Second Series' and a player profile is printed on the back of the card.
tckor006	Footballers in Action (Flag)	Kornies	1953	5	64		This series was the last of three similar series of Footballers in action. The heading banner on the back of the card shows as a flag. Each card has the players facsimile signature on the front. An album was issued to house the cards.
miwsm002	Football Stars	Western Mail Newspaper	1953 cc	8	12		Large supplements issued in Western Australia in twelve consecutive weekly editions of the Western Mail, showing colour portraits of leading WAFL players of the era with the players statistics at the bottom.
tcarg002	Football Swap Cards	Argus	1954	5	144		This set shows actual photographs of player heads superimposed on an action cartoon drawing of a body and football ground in the background.
mparg007	Colour Team Photos	Argus Weekend Magazine	1954	7	19		Formal team photos of all the VFL teams competing that year and the several VFA teams.
tccol001	Victorian Footballers (Series 1)	Coles	1954	5	56		This series shows predominantly training action shots but some portrait shots also appear.
tccol002	Victorian Footballers (Series 2)	Coles	1954	5	56		These cards differ from series one in that they have 'Exclusive Coles Production' printed lightly in a semi-circle on the back of the card. The sequence of team colour at the top and bottom of the card is also reversed.
cffyf001	Victorian Football Caricatures	Fyna Foods	1954	8	24		These cards show caricatures of leading VFL players with a team colour tab at the bottom of the card in the shape of a football designed to be cut off and pinned onto your jumper. A series of poster sized reproductions of these cards was also produced recently.
tcheo004	Sth. Australian Footballers (Series 3)	Harper's Easi Oats	1954	7	31		These cards depict the same photos as those used in the second series with a facsimile signature added. The backs read 'third series' and had an updated player profile
tckor007	Champion Footballers	Kornies	1954	6	48		The Champion Footballer series was larger again than the previous Kornies series. The players facsimile signature appears on the front of the card. This series shows half length portrait shots of VFL players.
otkor001	Champion Footballers (Large Panels)	Kornies	1954	10	12		These cards formed the front panel of the Kornies cereal box that the above series of Champion Footballers could be found in.
pohsm003	Original WEG Posters	Herald Sun Newspaper	1954 -	9	48		An institution in Melbourne is this series of posters issued immediately after each VFL/AFL grand final showing a caricature of the winning team drawn by WEG. The first poster was released in 1954 as the cover sheet to bundles of newspapers, and then sold at various outlets, including outside the ground on grand final day, ever since. The older posters are extremely rare and even more rare are the losing team grand final posters which were mostly destroyed once the winner was known.
mparg008	Colour Team Photos	Argus Weekend Magazine	1955	7	18		Team photos of the VFL teams competing that year, plus aerial views of the finals series.
tccol003	Victorian Footballers	Coles	1955	7	56		This set also has 'Exclusive Coles Production' printed lightly in a semi-circle on the back of the card, but the colour of the cardboard tends to be cream not white. The sequence of team colour at the top and bottom of the card has reverted to the way it was in series 1. All cards in this set have both the players first name and surname printed.
tcheo005	Sth. Australian Footballers (Series 4)	Harper's Easi Oats	1955	9	24		The back of the card shows 'Fourth series' again with a player profile. These are probably the hardest of the SA Easi Oats series to find.
cgmch001	Sporting Club Gallery	Michelides Ltd.	1955	8	4 known footballers		Pictures of Sth. Fremantle footballers appeared on the top left hand corner of Micheleides 'Sport Club Gallery' cigarette packets in Perth. Four are known to exist along with pictures of celebrities from other sports.
otcxb001	Footy Blotting Paper	Cox Bros.	1955 cc	9	3 known		Blotting paper showing caricatures of VFL footballers on the back. Only three are known to exist, Collingwood, Nth. Melbourne and Hawthorn.
acgfl001	Advertising Card	Golden Fleece	1955 cc	8	4 known		These cards show a photo of VFL players with the caption "With compliments from Golden Fleece and Kookaburra Underwear"
otvch001	Richmond Matchbooks	Vaucluse Hotel Melbourne	1955 cc	9	3 known		Three matchbooks are known to have been issued by the Vaucluse Hotel in Richmond, Melbourne. One shows a black and white head photo of Des Rowe superimposed on a drawn in collar and tie with Richmond colour diagonal stripes in the background. Another shows black an white photos of Des Rowe and Max Oppy in an oval frame with a similar Black and yellow diagonal stripe background. The third is a text advertisement for the hotel.
tcarg003	Fireside Footballers	Argus	1956	9	288		Postage stamp sized cards to be used with the Argus Fireside Footballers game. Twenty four cards per team were issued in sheets which had to be cut into the individual cards. Coupons had to be collected from the Argus newspaper and then redeemed in person at the Argus distribution outlet in Melbourne.
tccol004	Olympic Series	Coles	1956	5	1 football related		Coles issued several series of cards related to the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. One of these series showed scenes from sports that were to be contested at the games, one of which was the exhibition sport of Australian Rules Football. The card was a cartoon like image that did not specify any players or teams.
achol001	Victorian Football League Players	Holeproof	1956 cc	9	3 known		These large sized cards showed action shots of players with a facsimile signature.
acmyr001	Souvenir Photo Card	Myer	1956