W.D. & H.O. Wills - International Footballers - Anonymous

1909-10

International Footballers

W.D. & H.O. Wills / Anonymous

60 cards

The next Tim Davidson Auctions Ltd. auction on 11 January, 2023 includes one lot (Lot 31) which has a collection (set?) of 60 cards. On first glance these look like cards from the W.D. & H.O. Wills set of International Footballers but with blank backs. But on closer examination there is one major difference, instead of the cards featuring the national team of each of the players, the cards display the name of the club each of them played for. 

I have listed the 60 cards in the same order as the  W.D. & H.O. Wills checklist - W.D. & H.O. Wills - International Footballers 1909-10 (Flag, Scissors, United Service), but there are 67 cards in that collection so I have listed those other 7 cards separately.

The middle card is W.C. Davies (West Bromwich Albion), included here, despite the poor quality of the images, because it's the only card missing from the illustrated checklist of the Welsh internationals - W.D. & H.O. Wills - International Footballers 1909-10 (Flag, Scissors, United Service) (02) - Wales.

All the clubs come from the Football League, Southern League, Irish League or Scottish League, except for the Welsh clubs. Wrexham played in the Birmingham & District League while Llandrindod Wells played in the Mid-Wales Football League.

N.B. W.D. & H.O. Wills set of International Footballers is usually referred to as a 1909-10 set. David James English McConnell (E. McConnell) made his debut for Chelsea in April 1910. This clubs are listed as Cliftonville, Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday and Chelsea on the back of his card, which probably means the set was produced later in 1910. His club in this Anonymous collection is listed at Sheffield Wednesday which seems to indicate that these cards were issued earlier than the W.D. & H.O. Wills ones.

International Footballers 1909-10 - Wales

H. Blew (Wrexham)

Llew Davies (Wrexham)

Lloyd Davies (Northampton)

W.C. Davies (West Bromwich Albion)

R. Evans (Sheffield United)

E. Hughes (Notts Forest)

Evan Jones (Chelsea)

Jeffrey Jones (Llandrindod)

J. Love Jones (card says L. Jones) (Middlesboro)

W. Lot Jones (card says Lot Jones) (Manchester City)

W. Meredith (Manchester United)

A.G. Morris (Notts Forest)

C. Morris (Derby County)

E. Peake (Liverpool)

L.R. Roose (Sunderland)

G. Wynn (card says G. Wynne) (Manchester City)

International Footballers 1909-10 - England

J.V. Bache (Aston Villa)

R. Bond (Bradford City)

W. Bradshaw (Blackburn Rovers)

A. Cowell (Blackburn Rovers)

R. Crompton (Blackburn Rovers)

A. Ducat (Woolwich Arsenal)

H. Fleming (Swindon)

A.E. Hall (Aston Villa)

H.T.W. Hardinge (Sheffield United)

S. Hardy (Liverpool)

G. Holley (Sunderland)

H. Makepeace (Everton)

H. Morley (Notts County)

J. Parkinson (Liverpool)

J. Pennington (West Bromwich Albion)

G. Wall (Manchester United)

W. Wedlock (Bristol City)

V.J. Woodward (Chelsea)

International Footballers 1909-10 - Ireland

J. Balfe (Shelbourne Dublin)

J. Darling (Linfield Athletic)

V. Harris (Everton)

W. Lacey (Everton)

P. Mc. Cann (Belfast Celtic)

E. McConnell (card says Mc. Connell) (Sheffield Wednesday)

J. Murphy (Bradford City)

J.M. Murray (Sheffield Wednesday)

J.C. Hehir (Dublin Bohemians)

W.T. Renneville (Leyton)

W. Scott (Everton)

F. Thompson (Cliftonville)

International Footballers 1909-10 - Scotland

A. Aitken (Leicester Fosse)

A. Bennett (Glasgow Rangers)

J. Brownlie (3rd. Lanark)

J. Hay (Celtic)

A. Higgins (Newcastle United)

G. Law (Glasgow Rangers)

W. Loney (Celtic)

J. Mc. Menemy (Celtic)

A. McNair (card says A. Mc. Hair) (Celtic)

P. Mc. William (Newcastle United)

J. Mitchell (Kilmarnock)

J. Quinn (Celtic)

R. Templeton (Kilmarnock)

C. Thompson (Sunderland)

International Footballers 1909-10 - Missing from Anonymous set

S. Burnison (Belfast Distillery)

J. Murray (Motherwell)

A. Devine (Falkirk)

A. McTavish (Falkirk)

G. Robertson (Motherwell)

G.L. Sinclair (Heart of Midlothian)

W. Walker (Clyde)