Football Club Colours, 1906 Ogden's cigarette cards

Here are some great Rugby Clubs from England and Wales in early 1900s: Northampton, Blackheath, Gloucester, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Penrath, Richmond, Newport...

These cards are part of a 50 cards set featuring major British clubs,  both Rugby and Association... thus suggesting that it remains 41 other cards to be displayed another time (mostly football indeed... )

I can only regret that I don't know the names of the players portrayed here...

I usually don't collect cigarette cards... except when they look as good as full-size illustrations...

Hi-res pictures are available on my Flickr account (BY-SA 2.0 Creative Commons licence, like this website)



Identificateurs Technorati : rugby, ogden

Comments

[John]

Hi. Just a few facts for you there are in fact 11 rugby players in this set, and the set in has 51 cards including No 51 The 1906 SA captain P. J. Roos. Other team is Devonport Albion, set also published by Churchmans Cigerettes with identical pictures. I think the palyers are the club captains of the era as there is also anothere Ogdens set called Famouse Footballers (1908) with 11 rugby players in it. cheers John

[Frederic]

Thank you John for this comment, I always appreciate your feedback.

Well, I recently purchased this 51 card set (yes 51 !) that I like very much, despite the fact that I do my best not to enter the "cigarette card" part of rugby memorabilia... ;-)

The funny thing is that all these cards - at least in my set - have a "50 in a set" motto writen on their back, except Paul Roos card ("51 in a set")... just like this last one was added later...

I didn't include Devonport Albion... cause it's easier to display 9 cards rather than 10 ! here it is : http://tinyurl.com/2dsua2

Not forgetting Paul Roos : http://tinyurl.com/ytkv4w