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festivalofcards.co.uk Organised by : Barrie Rollinson (President of Postcard-Club GB) Show Details and Valuation Enquiries : Telephone: (01278) 445497 email Enquiries : barrieatrollinsonpostcards@btinternet.com |
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Hello All, Welcome to our web site, www.festivalofcards.co.uk. On this page you will find progressive information about "Festival Of Cards" together with some "Hobby related Interest" features.This page is designed to provide information about Festival Of Cards and the people involved in the show - Dealers AND Customers. If you have any views on the hobby, including your say on the venue being moved from Yeovil to Shepton Mallett etc. we would love to hear from you.
Let us, let you, make Festival of Cards a success Barrie Latest Contributions to this page Progress Update on the Festival of Cards Show The Show is gathering speed. Plans showing Table layouts have been completed. This week will be sent “First” letters to all 145 dealers confirming stall positions,size , etc. Have you considered booking your accommodation for the show?
I hope you find the Editorials interesting and informative. More to follow…. David Stuckey writes David Stuckey of Card Times (Somerset-born but now living on Merseyside) writes : "Like most boys of my age I started collecting cards when Brooke Bond were issuing them with PG Tips. The first set I remember collecting was Out Into Space. At the same time A&BC Gum were issuing Film Star cards with 'Dollar' gum and they were an added attraction. At that time you could buy a mixed bag of cigarette and trade cards from the local hobby shop in Yeovil for sixpence. I bought one a week for a couple of years! That, along with an accumulation of cards collected by my dad and an uncle, started me off. I put the hobby to one side when I left home and went to college, started working and got married, but in the late 1970s I came back to it, having found a card club and a regular fair in Liverpool where I could feed my habit. In 1989 I bought the rights to a magazine then called Cigarette Card Monthly and changed the title to Card Times. It is now the premier news magazine for the hobby of cigarette and trade card collecting with a circulation throughout the UK and abroad. Like the majority of my readers I find card collecting to be a respite from the hurly-burly of everyday life, somewhere you can escape and indulge in a little light nostalgia. I'm always willing to meet collectors and talk over shared passions - in my case cinema, TV and radio stars as well as any form of transport (mostly cars) and sport (mostly motor racing)! I'm very happy to be part of the newly re-launched Festival of Cards at the Bath and West showground. See me there - or visit my website for details of how to subscribe to Card Times. Every issue contains a free card in our unique Readers' Choice series!" <www.cardtimes.co.uk>................!!!Thanks for the contribution David!!! 2005 and all that This year to-date has been most sombre. We have said goodbye to --- Lee Peck Lee supported the Yeovil Show and due mostly to ill health was unable to attend. He did however always include Advertising for the show on his Stall. Lee came from my neck of the woods (SouthYorks / North Lincs)
Pat Loobey Pat was born in Ireland and brought up in London and from the first show at Yeovil took a Stall.
John D.Smith I am not too sure where John came from, he never confided in me. The Hobby owes John a great debt of gratitude, indeed I considered John to be the “Father of the Hobby”. Before the first show at Yeovil I asked John for advice. A few weeks later a letter arrived containing a list of “Basic Needs and Pitfalls” Thanks John it is still on my Wall. Let us not forget these friends who continue the Hobby beyond.
One answer to the question "Why do we collect cards?"
I came into postcards having seen an advert in a shop window. My first purchase was 7 albums of cards, contained inside a suitcase. Things were buzzing and moving, my wife demanded that they be emptied in the garage. What a start me and 2000 postcards living in a garage. My first stall was at a Book Fair in Leeds and I well remember selling some super speedway cards (I have never had the like since) to a Leeds dealer. I had two mentors at the start. Les Dayton (Dealer) and Norman Ellis (Top Collector). These very good friends helped me down the sticky stairway of Postcards.
More Postcard memories to follow. Barrie
Card Expo at York (1st and 2nd April 2005)We introduced our web site "live". Chris Rollinson came with his laptop and invited all who wished to have a look. Incidentally this was the first time that Card Expo had not coincided with the Grand National Horse Race.
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COLLECTING CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS When you mention cigarette cards, most people think of cricketers, footballers and film stars of the 1930s. This was the heyday of cigarette card issues when virtually every packet contained a little picture and the major companies like Wills and Players had their own studios and artists devoted entirely to the production of cigarette cards. It was big business, and massive print-runs often ran into hundreds of millions for each series. That’s why there are still lots of them around today – sets can still be bought for around £15 upwards, which is a major reason for their popularity for those of us wishing to indulge in nostalgia for Hollywood legends, sporting heroes, military hardware, famous trains and graceful ocean liners from a golden age. But the hobby goes back much further – to the 1890’s in fact – and many of the early series were from firms whose names would mean nothing to a non-collector, little companies which went out of business or were swallowed up by the big boys before World War 1. And it is these cards, few of which have survived, which are often the most valuable. In 2000, a world record price was paid for a single card - $1,265,000, equivalent to around £900,000. Although the 2ND World War virtually ended cigarette cards, the gap was soon filled by other firms packing picture cards with their products. From the 1950s onwards came a flood of ‘trade’ cards issued with tea, confectionery, biscuits, cereals, ice cream, and so on. Among them were companies such as A & B C Gum, Bassetts and Brooke Bond who regularly released one set after another year after year. I expect many of you will remember collecting them – and really there has been a notable trend for this age group to begin collecting them again which can be satisfyingly inexpensive with some Brooke Bond cards from the 1960s and 70s priced at around £4 or £5 for a mint set . Remember The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Doctor Who? They all have huge followings and collectors are snapping up new sets as they come onto the market. The same goes for Star Trek, Buffy, Disney, Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings. Cult TV series and blockbuster movies are sure to be pictured on cards. That goes for football too. There are hundreds of different sets to chose from, some going back to the days of Matthews, Finney and Lofthouse, others bringing us right up-to-date with the latest Premiership players and stars like Lampard and Rooney. The thing is, card collecting is a living hobby with many new series being produced each year attracting a new generation of collectors. Whatever your age or interests, you’re going to be pleasantly surprised by what cards can offer. Collecting cards has come a long way since its pre-war image, people from all walks of life are now keen collectors. One of the biggest suppliers is The London Cigarette Card Company, founded in 1927. They have an astonishing 70 million cards in stock and they publish the hobby’s essential reference catalogues with prices for over 13,000 different series on every subject imaginable. The new 2006 editions are out now - The Cigarette Card Catalogue at £6.50 and the Trade Card Catalogue (£5.00) are widely regarded as the definitive guides to collecting. They also publish a monthly magazine called “Card Collectors News”, (available by post, at £1.70 each or £20 a years subscription) (published non-stop since 1933) which keeps everyone up-to-date with news about the latest card issues, stories and features. As you might have guessed from the name, the London Cigarette Card Company began life in the Capital, but moved to its present headquarters in Somerset in the 1970s. Cards can be order by post, telephone, fax or e-mail (details later) and the company’s extensive website (www.londoncigcard.co.uk) is well worth a visit. Also worth a visit is the firm’s shop located in separate premises in the centre of the historic town of Somerton, a former capital of Wessex and a delightful place to wile away a few hours. Adding to the attraction for tourists and collectors alike, the Aladdin’s cave of cards – there are more than 4,000 sets on display (many only £2 a set) – caters for all card collectors needs. Here you can buy albums for housing cards, frames to display them, books to research them and catalogues to check their values – and the staff will be delighted to give any guidance you need. For further information contact The London Cigarette Card Company Ltd, Sutton Road, Somerton, Somerset TA11 6QP, telephone 01458 273452, e-mail cards@londoncigcard.co.uk.
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