AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
051 - Wills. Boxers	056 - Morris. Actresses “FROGA”	058 - Richmond Cavendish. Beauties “AMBS”	066 - Fred. Morgan. Welsh Rugby Players
116 - Ogden. Comic Pictures	156 - Redford. Stage Artistes of the Day	157 - Nathan. Comic Military & Naval Pictures	196 - Clarke Sporting Terms
227 - Australian Licorice. Footballers (League)	275 - Adkin. Sporting Cups and Trophies	313 - Wills. Actresses, type set back	348 - Player. Advertisement Card
388 - Cope. Dickens Gallery	412 - Sinclair. World’s Coinage	450 - Cohen Weenen. Owners, Jockeys, Footballers, Cricketers Series 2	460 - C. W. S. Boy Scout Series
493 - Ogden. Beauties “HOL”	530 - Poppleton (or Clarnico). Footballers	602 - Wills. Actresses (grey scroll back).	603 - Wills. Waterloo

MURRAY'S MEET THEIR WATERLOO

We have now reached the end of an era. After 419 sales offering nearly 200,000 lots the January auction is the last. The necessity to clear all the cards from remaining collections in hand has therefore resulted in perhaps the best auction ever – by anyone! Catalogues for this one are free; just send a stamped addressed A5 envelope.

The list of rare sets is astonishing. Among them are Ardath Dutch Old Masters, Baker Beauties of all Nations, Charlesworth & Austin Colonial Troops, C. W. S. Boy Scouts, Cope Dickens Gallery, Gallaher Kute Kiddies and Regimental Standards, Hill Prince of Wales, Nichols Orders of Chivalry, Phillips Types of British Soldiers, Taddy Autographs, Taylor War Series and Teofani World’s Smokers. Real show-stoppers are Fairweather Historic Buildings of Scotland, Nathan Comic Military & Naval Phrases, Player Old England’s Defenders, Redford Stage Artistes of the Day and Sinclair World’s Coinage, while from Wills there are Actresses with playing card inset, Locomotives, Ships and Miniatures (enamelled). Near sets include Gallaher 46/50 Latest Actresses, Morris 21/26 Actresses, Lloyd 19/28 Academy Gems, Hill 23/26 Statuary, Richmond Cavendish 12/14 Beauties and 175/179 Actresses and Cadle 16/26 Actresses.

Trade cards also feature prominently. The earliest sets are Moore’s Toffee The Post in Many Lands, Nuggett Polish Allied Series and Johnston’s Corn Flour Customs of the Far East and Methods of Travelling. Slightly later are Fry Fowls Pigeons & Dogs and Tricks & Puzzles, War Series by Maypole and Meadow Dairy, Caley Film Stars and Cerebos Sea Shells (brown and grey backs). Post war sets of note are Ford Major Farming, Myers & Metreveli Spot the Plane and Musgrave British Birds & Transport Though the Ages.

Sets from overseas come from Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Mexico, Peru, South Africa (with 87 A. T. M. Members of the Legislature) and Uruguay. There is another good selection of Maltese cards including 485 different Cousis’ Warships. American sets include Duke Playing Cards and Actors & Actresses plus Kinney Animals, while the part sets are 27 Kinney International Cards as well as over 700 different photographic Actresses.

Sports cards will always attract much interest. General sets include Adkin Sporting Cups & Trophies, Clarke Sporting Terms(offered in four groups, with 1 Football card missing), Teofani Sports & Pastimes and Cohen Weenen Owners Jockeys Cricketers & Footballers. There are two groups of package issues, by Churchman and Phillips. Golf cards include 49/50 Cotton Golf Strokes, while the turf is represented by Smith Derby Winners & Job Racehorses. Cricket opens with 14 Wills’s 1896, offered individually, as well as both versions of their 1908 issue, plus a Cohen Weenen set and several batches among the Phillips Sports issue. Dirt Track comes in with the coloured Pattreiouex set.

Then there is football in its various guises. Rugby appears with 37/40 Fred Morgan, 28/29 African Tobacco and 18/24 Australian Licorice. Australian rules, currently very popular, weighs in with 3 sets of Australian Licorice and 2 Kornies. Soccer however dominates this month; among the trade cards are 84 Battocks, 19 Crescent, 5 Bunsen and a set of 30 miniature cards from Packer as well as a complete run – English & Scottish – of Thomson’s miniature cards. Sets include 100 Pattreiouex Famous Footballers, Ogden A. F. C. Nicknames, Smith Football Club Records, 2 Chix Famous Footballers and 6 superb sets from A & B C (4 of them Scottish).

Type cards are of the same high standard. There are 4 Ogden Comic Pictures, 2 Wills’s Actresses (type set back), a Player and Muratti Advertisement Card and a Taddy Wrestler others of note include a Robinson Derbyshire & the Peak, Woods 3 Views of London and an unusual tobacco wrapper, possibly 18th Century, by Ellis, with a cartoon. Other themes include silks, Guinea Golds and Tabs and Wills’s overseas issues. This auction once more comprises 603 lots, and the balance is made up from a fine assortment of cards to cater for all tastes.

The very last lot ever is a superb set of Wills’s unissued Waterloo. Something to savour.