Unknown issuer - Club Nicknames (5)

1910s
Football Clubs
Unknown issuer
Unknown number

Paul Briers has sent in a scan of the one of these cards showing donkey being ridden by one of the characters that appears on some of the other cards, but he has no additional information about it.

Unknown issuer - Club Nicknames (4)

1910s
Football Clubs
Unknown issuer
Unknown number

When were these issued? I've found some more of these strange cards. All with plain backs, these newest discoveries are printed in red and blue on white card. Some of the ones I displayed previously don't have team names on them and they were assumed to be of certain clubs (e.g. Notts County - but is that really a magpie - middle card in the last row), the ram must be Derby County and the one with the anvil could certainly be West Ham United. The cards in the last but one row were identified as Crystal Palace, Everton, Luton Town and Blackpool. I can understand the Everton one, but the Luton Town one is the same card. All thoroughly confusing.
They seem old, possibly pre-First World War. Lincoln City were a Second Division team up to 1920. Swindon Town, although  a non league side during this period, reached the F.A. Cup Semi-Final in 1909-10, won the Southern League Championship in 1910-11 and competed in the 1911 F.A. Charity Shield (losing 8-4 to Manchester United). Woolwich Arsenal dropped the Woolwich reference in 1913.

UPDATE 11-10-2024 12:00):  A second version of the Leicester City card added.

Birmingham
Bradford
Bristol City
Everton
Huddersfield
Leicester City

Leicester City - different
Lincoln City
Manchester City
Nottingham Forest
Sunderland
Swindon
Woolwich Arsenal

Unknown issuer - Club Nicknames (3)

1920s??
Club Nicknames
Unknown issuer
9 known

Another three of these strange cards - Blackpool, Crystal Palace and Everton.

Blackpool
Crystal Palace
Derby County
Everton
Leicester City
Luton Town
Notts County/Newcastle United
Swindon Town
West Ham United

Unknown issuer - Club Nicknames (2)

1920s??
Club Nicknames
Unknown issuer
6 known

Not long after starting this blog I included some unidentified cards that showed cartoon representations of football club nicknames. I can no add another. There must be more. Perhaps I should list them as nicknames, as the Magpie shown previously, could refer to Notts County or Newcastle United

Derby County
Leicester City
Luton Town
Notts County/Newcastle United
Swindon Town
West Ham United

Unknown issuer - Club Nicknames

 

 

Another batch of unknown cards, which might come from two different series. From top left, they are:

Leicester City

Swindon Town

Luton Town

Notts County

Derby County

If you can shed any light on thse cards, please get in touch.