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Joe Mercer's Great Britain Soccer Squad 1971. Series of 16 busts featuring top players available from Cleveland Petrol outlets.
The collection fitted into a black plastic display stand.
Colured photographic Jam Jar lids issued by Hartley Jam. Display folder issued to accompany the series of 12 lids.
Total Oil (GB Ltd)
Big League
Big league football stars of the 70's, a free collectable set given away by Total petrol. There are eleven in the set, which you could store and display in a cardboard display box.
A&BC CHEWING GUM Co.
Numbered series of 290 cards. Head and shoulder portraits. PURPLE and BLACK back.
Issued in 3 series. Series 1 (1-109), Series 2 (110-219), Series 3 (220-290).
Inscribed on reverse "Did You Know".
Size: 81x56mm
SERIES 1
18. Bobby Moore 40. Alan Stephenson 63. Tommy Taylor 84. Bryan Robson 105. Jimmy Lindsay
SERIES 2
123. Bobby Ferguson 130. Clyde Best 149. Billy Bonds 182. Geoff Hurst 215. Harry Redknapp
SERIES 3
256. Bobby Howe 283. Frank Lampard
Footballer 1971-72
Scottish Footballer 1971-72
Numbered series of 144 cards. Head and shoulder portraits. PURPLE and BLACK back. Issued in 2 series. Series 1 (1-73), Series 2 (74-144).
Inscribed on reverse "Did You Know".
Size 81x56mm
136. Bobby Ferguson
Star Players & Football Club Crests
Unnumbered series of 23 Star Players and 23 Football Club Crests. Adhesive backs. Inscribed on reverse. There is a special album for these stamps Issued with Footballers 1971-72.
Size 63x44mm
Geoff Hurst
DAILY MAIL
Follow the Hammers
B.A.B SOUVENIR COMPANY
Player Shields : Caricatures
Anonymous coloured shields with drawn player heads. The quality of the player drawings is not up to the previous BAB standard, raising questions about whether or not this is a BAB production.
Pop Robson Bobby Moore
B.A.B SOUVENIR COMPANY
"Century" Series of Sticker Stamps : Soccer Favourites
1. Bobby Moore 27. Jimmy Greaves
51. Geoff Hurst
80. Pop Robson 90. Trevor Brooking
Image courtesy of Nigel Mercer
ESSO PETROLEUM Co.
FA Cup Centenary 1872-1972
Series of 31 aluminium coins 27mm in dia . Each coin came in an envelope 45x43mm and was given free with every four gallons of petrol. Special folder issued to accompany the series. Special brass coin 32mm dia issued to commemorate the 1972 F.A. Cup winners.
"Century" Series of Sticker Stamps
Clubs, Crests and Colours
85. West Ham United
B.A.B SOUVENIR COMPANY
Football Shields - Straight sided
(1970 - 1972)
Straight sided badges with club crest. 4 known versions printed with either a brown or white backs, suggesting perhaps that they were produced over a number of years. The white backs have 'FasPrint', Fasson, Leiden, Holland inscribed on the backing paper. The sides to the shields are sharp, as opposed to the rounded sides set .
Size 64x47mm
Image courtesy of Mark Hughesdon
Size 87x47mm
BARRATT & Co. Ltd
Goldflake Famous Sportsmen
Coloured, numbered series of 50 of hand drawn portraits of famous sportsmen. Including Football, Athletics, Boxing, Cricket and Golf. Album issued to accompany the series.
Size 66x35mm
41. Bobby Moore
Footnote:
The same image was used again for the series "Soccer Stars" issued in 1973
CADBURY-SCHWEPPES Foods Ltd
Hartley's Football Stars 1971-72
CLEVELAND (Petrol Stations)
Joe Mercer's Great Britain Soccer Squad
FKS PUBLISHERS Ltd
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1971-72
Coloured, numbered series of 352 player portraits. Anonymous issue, reverse has a small Black & White insert of the player. Album editor was Jack Rollin with the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) endorsing the collection.
Club badge was introduced for each team. Each packet contained one self adhesive club badge and seven player stickers. Album issued to accompany the series priced 15p.
IPC MAGAZINES Ltd
My Favourite Soccer Stars
Coloured numbered series of 32 player cards. Red backs. Issued as four strips of eight cards with either of the following magazines "Valiant & TV21, Scorcher & Scorer, Tiger, Buster & Jet or Lion & Thunder"
Size when cut 63x44mm
KEYMEN
Football Series
KIFF
Cloth Badge
Size: 74x52mm
LETRASET Ltd
Soccer Action Replay
Coloured, numbered series of 24 soccer scenes with Soccer Action transfers. Inscribed on transfer sheet "Action Transfers"
Size 159x134mm - Transfer sheet 125x61mm
1. Geoff Hurst - Great Goal 13. Bobby Moore - International Clash
TASTY FOOTBALLERS
England's 1966 World Cup triumph spawned the merchanding boom which still continues today whereby a successful player or team was used to sell a product.
One such company to jump on the merchandising bandwagon was the confectionary 'Jam' giants Cadbury Schweppes Foods Ltd with their Hartley brand. The introduction of twelve of Britain's most famous footballers to their jam jar lids during the 1971-72 season was marketing genius.
A stellar line-up of football stars included West Ham and England pair Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters Tottenham Hotspur. Other stars of the day included England’s Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks, Alan Ball, Colin Bell and Peter Osgood. Wales was represented by Ron Davis, Scotland by Billy Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone and George Best for Northern Ireland.
The humble 'jam sandwich' was also one of those culinary treats you could prepare without parental guidance, and the more you slapped between the slices of bread the nearer you were to completing your fantastic lid collection.
MIRROR GROUP NEWSPAPERS Ltd
Mirrorcard
Coloured,numbered series of 100 soccer side cards. Inscibed on reverse "Mirrorcard".
Special booklet titled "Bobby Moore's Gallery of Soccer Sides" issued to accompany the series along with a wallchart for you to stick the team group on to.
Size 77x45mm
Coloured, unnumbered series of 96 team groups, anonymous plain backs. The 'My Club' cards were able to be ordered separately from the Mirror. All 92 Football League teams are represented along with England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Size 151x100mm PRICE GUIDE: £ Rare
My Club
TUF (Boots)
Top Internationals from
Tuf Boys Internationals
Wall chart measures 700x215mm. Footnote at bottom reads
"All illustrations copyright A & R Coffer Ltd"
Enlarged section showing Bobby Moore from wallchart right
MARSHALL CAVENDISH (Partworks)
Book of Football Top Teams
Coloured, numbered series of 320 paper inserts, for mounting into special "Top Team" album. Issued with the "Book of Football" partworks numbers 1 to 20. Issued in sheet format each with 16 players.
44 players were already pre-printed inside the album with the total number of players 364.
Size when cut 67x46mm
Pre-printed inside album
Bobby Moore
Geoff Hurst
Martin Peters
1964 West Ham United v. Preston North End
Sticker reverse
1. Bobby Moore
20. Tommy Taylor
Pre-printed inside album
21. West Ham United
301. Clyde Best 302. Billy Bonds 303. Ron Boyce
304. Trevor Brooking 305. Peter Eustace 306. Bobby Ferguson
307. Bobby Howe 308. Geoff Hurst 309. Frank Lampard
310. John McDowell 311. Bobby Moore 312. Harry Redknapp
313. Bryan Robson 314. Alan Stephenson 315. Tommy Taylor
This Bobby Moore die-cast figure was featured in both West Ham United and England strip. Issued in the early 1970’s these footballing stance figures in their specific football team colours were part of a football set entitled “Keymen Football Series”.
Keymen, an unusual name for memorabilia, so called because these vintage 7cm scale models were hand-painted by inmates serving at Her Majesty’s pleasure in Walton Jail, Liverpool under lock and key – consequently being known as ‘key-men’.
Other famous footballers of the time included Bobby Charlton, George Best, Francis Lee, Colin Bell, Alan Ball, Gordon Banks, Billy Bremner, Martin Peters, Peter Osgood and Frank McLintock.
Booklet
Wallchart
Paper trade cut-out
CHARBENS
Club Colours
NABISCO FOODS Ltd
Bob Wilson's Shredded Wheat Soccer Action Collection
Coloured, numbered series of 30 stickers. Issued in strips of 3 stickers inside special Shredded Wheat packs. Special collector album issued to accompany the series.
Size when cut 70x55mm
19. Bobby Moore / Gordon Banks
25. Geoff Hurst
SORRY NO IMAGE
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW & Son
Football History Map of England & Wales
Part of their series of pictorial and historical maps. Created by John Carvosso, the stylised square kits depicts where the club was located in the country. The re-rendered club crests were often cut from the map and sold as singles.
Size when cut 47x29mm
Fold-out pictorial map
SORRY NO IMAGE
THE SUN (Newspaper)
Football Encyclopaedia & Soccerstamp Album 1971-72
Coloured, series of 504 stamps. Collect the tokens printed in the newspaper in exchange for packets of stamps, The tokens appeared in the newspaper each day. The Sun only accepted tokens in lots of six, plus 5p, to get your 12 Soccerstamps by return post. Special 164-page album issued to accompany the series.
Size and shapes various
D.C. THOMSON & Co. Ltd
Super Stars of '72
Coloured, numbered series of 24 cards. Issued as 5 sheets over 2 weeks (26 February and 4 March 1972)
Presented free with "The Victor" dated 4 March 1972
Plastic wallet issued to accompany the series.
Size when cut from sheet 65x47mm
Plastic wallet
Clyde Best