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15 Cards Covering Tennis, Soccer, Cricket, Boxing and the Olympics.
Lot 156. 15 Cards Covering Tennis, Soccer, Cricket, Boxing and the Olympics. Fourteen are British issues. The boxing card is #22 Billy Matthews from the 1929 Godfrey Phillips “Sporting Champions” set, ex. Godfrey Phillips is also the source of #6 featuring runner D. Lowe from the 1928 “Olympic Champions, Amsterdam 1928” set, f-g. Four soccer cards are from different sets, #31 T. Manley from 1939 Churchman “Association Footballers, 2nd Series,” ex-m+, #48 H. Hibbs from 1935 Ardath “Sports Champions” (two lines) g, #40 from Player 1934 “Hints on Association Football” g and #37, possibly from a Japanese issue, ex-m+. One tennis card, #17 Hardwick, is from the 1936 Player issue “Tennis,” ex, and six are from the 1938 Ardath “Tennis” set, #5 Landry vg-ex, 8 Lee ex-m, 12 Scriven vg, 32 James f-g, 44 Wilde vg and 46 Menzel f-g. Two sets provide the cricketers, the 1926 Wills New Zealand issue, #16 Watson nm-m and 18 Hallows ex-m+, and 1930 Sweetacre “Sports Champions” (“Champion Chewing Gum”) #48 Hird, vg. The Wills cricket cards feature real photos.
Minimum Bid $20.
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