International Stars
20 Footballers
Mark Avenell has been in touch, sending along a scan of the above card...
Hello Alan
Do you know anything about this card? It is possible that it is from a MONTY GUM set, I also believe other cards in the set include various sport and film stars.
Cheers
Mark
I've got lots of details of Monty Gum football cards and this one doesn't seem to come from any of them. I know that Monty Gum issued many, many card sets throughout the 1960s and 1970s. I've done a lot of research without finding out anything about this card. Does anyone have similar cards in their collection?
UPDATE (07-04-2019 19:11): Carl Wilkes has confirmed that this collection of 100 International Stars (20 footballers, 12 stars of other sports and 68 film stars) was only issued by Perfetti Gum in Italy in 1967. Even though it looks like a Monty Gum set it was never issued by Monty Gum. You can find the full Perfetti Gum checklist here - Perfetti Gum - International Stars (05).
Hi Alan. I am told that there was a set of plain back cards produced by Monty Gum in 1965/66 called International Stars. It was a large set, including sportsmen and women (footballers, athletes etc.), actors, musicians... As part of this set there were 20 footballers, including Bobby Moore. At about the same time the cards were distributed in Italy through Perfetti Gum. I hope that this helps. Regards, Nigel
ReplyDeleteHi Nigel
ReplyDeleteDo you happen to know who the 20 footballers featured were please?
Regards
Philip
Hi!
ReplyDeleteFlorian Albert
Jose Altafini
Amancio
Georgi Asparuhov
Franz Beckenbauer
Bobby Charlton
Igor Chislenko
Nestor Combin
Walter Corbo
Eusobio
Jimmy Greaves
Helmut Haller
Denis Law
Sandro Mazzola
Bobby Moore
Pele
Gianni Rivera
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
Luis Suárez
Paul Van Himst
Kind regards
Øivind
Hi Øivind
DeleteThank you very much for the checklist, I'll do another post, probably tomorrow, using the information you have provided.
Alan