This fascinating lot consists of more than 3,200 cards comprising 105 different complete sets. The cards were issued as promotional items to accompany cigarettes, tea, periodicals and foods, and a couple were produced as special "collector issues." Many of the sets are wrapped, just as they left the factory and, with a small number of exceptions, overall condition is presumably EX to NM or finer throughout (a few top or bottom cards, in particular, may exhibit wear). The list of sets includes:

Animals/Birds/Flowers (20) - 1934 Wills Animalloys (48); 1954 Kane Products Wild Animals (50); 1957 Priory Tea Dogs (24); 1958 Amalgamated/Mills Dogs (25); 1958 Kane Products National Pets Club (25); 1959 Sweetule Birds & Their Eggs/Black (25); 1960s GB Tea Prehistoric Animals (25); 1960 Sweetule A Nature Series (25); 1961 Barbers Tea Dogs (24); 1961 Horniman's Tea Dogs (48); 1964 Brooke Bond African Animals (48); 1964 Rington's Fruits of Trees and Shrubs (25); 1966 Brooke Bond Trees in Britain (50); 1967 Bishops Stortford Dog's Heads (25); 1970 Molassine Dogs at Work (50); 1971 Cadbury The Age of the Dinosaur (12); 1972 Brooke Bond Animals & Their Young (48); 1972 Trucards Flowers (30); 1976 Brooke Bond Wonders of Wildlife (50); 1985 Kellogg Prehistoric Monsters and the Present (8).

Automotive (11) - 1951 Maxilan Motor Cars (25); 1954 Kane Products Modern Racing Cars (50); 1954 Morning Foods Modern Cars (50); 1955 Miranda 100 Years of Motoring (50); 1962 Kellogg Veteran Motor Cars (16); 1962 Weston Biscuit/Aust. Veteran & Vintage Cars/Ser. 2 (24); 1966 Mobil Vintage Cars (24); 1966 Petpro Grand Prix Racing Cars (35); 1966 Prescott Speed Kings (36); 1968 Brooke Bond History of the Motor Car (50); 1981 Player/Grandee Famous M.G. Marques (28).

Comic/Humor/Disney (8) - 1961 Primrose Popeye/Ser. 2 (50); 1960s Anon. Disney Characters Game Cards (21); 1966 Bassett Nursery Rhymes (25); 1967 Barratt Tarzan (50); 1968 Primrose Laurel & Hardy (50); 1968 Primrose Superman (50); 1971 Primrose "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (50); 1986 Bassett/Barratt Hologrems/Red Back (24).

Military (6) - 1900 Player Military Uniforms of the British Empire Overseas (50); 1960 Wiko (German) Soldiers of the World (50); 1962 Nort. Co-Op Tea Weapons of World War II (25); 1976 Carreras/Black Cat Military Uniforms (50); 1980 Player/Doncella Napoleonic Uniforms (24); 1982 Wills/Embassy World of Firearms (36).

Sports (20) - 1930 W.D. & H.O. Wills "Speed" (50); 1932 W.D. & H.O. Wills "Homeland Events" (54), featuring #16 Golf at St. Andrews/Bobby Jones; 1949 British Automatic Co. "Speed" (24), featuring #5 Jesse Owens; 1956 Cadet Sweets "Record Holders of the World" (50); 1956 Radio Fun "British Sports Stars" (20); 1957 Sweetule Products "Famous Sports Records" (25), featuring #21 Joe Louis; 1959 Top Flight Cigarettes "Top Flight Stars" (25), featuring #'s 11 Sugar Ray Robinson and 15 Ben Hogan; 1960 Comet Sweets "Olympic Achievements/Series 1" (25); 1962 Dickson Orde & Co. "Sports of the Countries" (25), featuring #11 America/Babe Ruth; 1974 Geo. Bassett & Co. "World Cup Stars" (50); 1978 T. Wall & Sons "Skateboard Surfer" (20); 1979 Brooke Bond Tea "Olympic Greats" (40); 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Famous Sporting Trophies (24); 1987 Brindley "Old Golfing Greats" (25); 1989 Birchgrey Ltd. "Panasonic European Open"/Golf (25); 1989 Channel 4/Cheerleader "All-Time Great Quarterbacks/NFL" (20); 1990 Imperial Publishing "American Golfers" (20); 1990 Imperial Publishing "Imperial Collection - American Golfers" (20); 1991 Ideal Albums "Boxing Greats/First Series" (25); 1991 Victoria Gallery "Boxing Champions/Series 1" (20), featuring #'s 13 Muhammad Ali and 20 Mike Tyson.

Transportation (9) - 1952 Amalgamated Famous British Ships/1st (25); 1954 British Automatic Co. Warships of the World (24); 1956 Miranda 150 Years of Locomotives (50); 1957 Morning Foods The Cunard Line/Blue (12); 1961 Ching Cig. Ships and Their Workings (25); 1970 Golden Grain Tea Passenger Liners (25); 1976 Player/Doncella Golden Age of Steam (24); 1977 Player/Doncella Golden Age of Flying (24); 1990s Coach House Studios Railway Locomotives/Modern Collector Issue (50).

Wild West (8) - 1955 Times Confec. Roy Rogers/"In Old Amarillo"/Blank Back (24); 1955 Times Confec. Roy Rogers/"In Old Amarillo"/Printed Back (24); 1958 Express Weekly The Wild West/O'Print (25); 1958 Kane Products Roy Rogers Colour Series (25); 1959 Weetabix The Western Story (25); 1961 Barratt The Wild West (24); 1972 Burtons The West (25); 1972 Burtons Wild West Action (25).

Assorted Subjects (23) - 1922 Wills Do You Know A Series (50); 1936 Godfrey Phillips This Mechanized Age, 1st/Adh. (50); 1948 British Automatic Co. History of Transport (24); 1954 Kings of York Kings & Queens of England (30); 1955 Morning Foods Ltd. Our England (50); 1957 Lyons Tea What Do You Know? (48); 1960s-70s Liebig Meat Extract, six different foreign-language sets of six cards apiece, including: Vintage Aircraft (2 Diff.), Firearms, Circus, Circus Animals, Writing Machines; 1961 BAT/Domino Figures Historiques Une Serie (25); 1961 Twinings Rare Stamps/2nd/Red O'Print (30); 1966 Amaran/Unbranded The Circus (25); 1966 Lyons Maid Famous People (48); 1967 Findus/Cap'n Thunder All About Pirates (12); 1970 Reddings Tea Strange Customs of the World (25); 1970s Sanitarium/NZ "Treasury of Maori Life" (20); 1970s Craven/Picadilly Miniature Playing Cards (53); 1970 Sharp "Hey Presto!" (25); 1975 Brooke Bond Inventors & Inventions (50); 1991 Victoria Gallery Legends of Hollywood (20).

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