Arbuckle Bros. (USA) - A Pictorial History of the Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

1893

A Pictorial History of the Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

Arbuckle Bros.

USA

51 cards (½ football)

Curiously this set doesn't actually feature football but the England card, depicting cricket, fox hunting and rowing on the front, does mention the sport on the back:

Foot-ball another and most popular national game of Old England can be traced back to the Greeks who had a game which roughly resembled it.  So also did the Romans.  It is related that the ancient Britons of the venerable cities of Chester and Derby were the first who played football and that their games were held to commemorate victories.  Sometimes the ball employed, was an uncanny one being the head of a fallen foe.  Football has always thriven on English soil, and is to-day as popular as it ever has been.

You can see all the cards in this collection and find out more about them by following this link: Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee Trade Cards

This set has been issued in a number of countries:

•  Arbuckle Bros. (USA)

•  A. Cardon Duverger, Ste-Olle-Lez-Cambrai (France) - Text in French

•  A. Chapu, Perles du Japon (France) - Advert back

•  A. Dreyfus, Mülhausen i. E. (German Empire) - Advert back

•  Avoyne & Poulain, Cherbourg (France) - Advert back

•  Cafés Georges, Paris (France) - Advert back

•  Carl Klingler, Dresden (German Empire) - Advert back

•  Chicorée Jh Lervilles, Bouchain (France) - Text in French

•  Chocolat Besnier, Le Mans (France) - Advert back

•  Chocolat Carpentier (France) - Blank back

•  Émile Bonzel, Haubourdin - Chicorée a la Bergére (France) - Text in French

•  Gebr. Weibezahn, Fischbeck, Weser (German Empire) - Advert back

•  H. Sergent, Chartres (France) - Advert back

•  Jos. Huber, Frankfurt a. M. (German Empire) - Advert back

•  Levelező Lap (Austria-Hungary) - Postcard back

•  Ludwig Stenger, Wien (Austria-Hungary) - Advert back

•  Mon. Ch. Denia, Paris (France) - Advert back

•  Paul Mairesse, Cambrai (France) - Advert back

•  Postkarte (German Empire) - Postcard back

•  Poſtkarte (German Empire) - Postcard back

•  S. Osswald, Dresden (German Empire) - Advert back

•  Tapioca de l'Étoile (France) - Advert back

•  Thomas Holloway (Spain) - Deportes y Pasatiempos de muchas naciones, de Holloway

•  Thomas Holloway (United Kingdom) - Holloway's Sports and Pastimes of all Nations

•  Van Leckwyck & Co., Antwerp (Belgium) - Advert back

•  Van Leckwyck & Co., Rotterdam (Netherlands) - Advert back

•  Williot Fils, Poix-du-Nord (France) - Advert back

1.  United States

2.  England

3.  Scotland

4.  Ireland

5.  Wales

6.  France

7.  Germany

8.  Holland

9.  Switzerland

10.  Spain

11.  Portugal

12.  Italy

13.  Russia

14.  Denmark

15.  Norway

16.  Sweden

17.  Assyria

18.  Tyrol

19.  Poland

20.  Gypsy

21.  Austria

22.  American Indians

23.  Canada

24.  Alaska

24.  Greenland

25.  Brazil

26.  Chile

27.  Hawaii

28.  Patagonia

29.  Cuba

30.  Mexico

31.  Central Africa

32.  Australia

33.  India

34.  Japan

35.  Persia

36.  China

37.  Turkey

38.  Arabia

39.  Tibet

40.  Esquimau

41.  Algeria

42.  Pompeii

43.  Anglo Saxon

44.  Greece

45.  Egypt

46.  Rome

47.  Judea

48.  American Negroes

49.  Medieval France

50.  Lapland