Blackpool F.C. on a card made for the Stanley Hotel, 1887, a very late Baines Preston North End card, c.1925 with the player Rawlings; the legendary Sugg, captain of Derby County and an all-round incredible sportsman on a Baines fan card, c,1889; and a lapel buttonhole card for Stoke City, c1880s-1890, by W.N. Sharpe.

1880s Walter Sugg football Burnley Durham Rochdale cricketer Yorks Derbyshire CCC

1920s Harry Johnson Sheffield Telegraph Blades United Yates Henderson card top goal scorer

1959 -60 Master Vending Company Cardmaster Sport Pelé Edson card from Italy, so rare!

1960 Puskas on a redemption card issued by Mirror Sprint, styled like a playing card, Real Madrid

England's World Cup '62 Jimmy Greaves, MIRA, 1962 Italian gum card

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From Plymouth to Pelé! Argyle to Argentina! Crazy cards: Plymouth Argyle FC versus Argentina, in 1924 (green team and pipe smoking captain Russell shaking hands with Argentine captain Calomino); and Scotland's Third Lanark F.C. (in red) versus Argentina in 1923, with a couple of Pelé cards: Carl Schutt vending machine gum card a few months earlier than Heinerle, from 1959-60; and a Lampo 1962 Italian card of Pele and Brazil

Dixie Dean and other Carreras Famous Footballers point of sale product promotion display from 1934. UNIQUE surviving artifact!

The Ashes Urn legends Walter Read and Dick Barlow, original Ashes test cricketers on cards from 1887, and Paignton FC, Penzance Magpies - their 1st ever card c.1890, Widnes rugby and Alderson Triple Crown Captain of England and Hartlepool rugby

1969 Benelux card from chocolates, gum marks as issued. Pelé from Brussels.

1961 image of Pelé on a 1961-1962 gum card from former Yugoslavia, hence the Serbo-Croat language PELA

1920 uncut sheet of Spanish trade cards with rookie cards for Alcantara and Samitier. Only 1 in the world? Surely yes

1880s J. Schofield of Blackpool FC and South Shore FC on a Fleece Hotel trade card. The hotel was run by his father, W.J. Schofield.

1889 Bob Seddon World Rugby Hall of Fame legendary player, on a memorial card by Baines Litho of Manningham. Seddon was England and GB rugby tour captain, to Oz, in 1888, when he drowned at sea.