| A&BC Chewing Gum - Scottish cards. Though A&BC Chewing Gum began producing football card sets in England for the 1958/59 season it wasn't until 1962 that they decided to produce sets specific to Scotland. They then continued on producing Scottish sets throughout the history of the company. You can see the English sets here. As a general rule the Scottish cards are rarer, and therefore more valuable than their English equivalents. I don't collect these Scottish cards, but provide the information below for interested collectors. If you can help with additional information or images please contact me using this email link. |
| 1962/63 | ||
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Footballers.
A set of 44 black and white photograph cards with facsimile
autographs and plain backs. I've dated this set as 1962/63 though some
catalogues list it as 1961/62. The set includes cards showing the
1961/62 League Champions and Cup Winners, so I've assumed that A&BC
would have produced this set around June/July 1962 ready for the 1962/63
season. Nigel's Webspace is pleased to be able to display a full set of these cards. They are incredibly rare as a set, so the displayed images have my website address overwriting the photographs. I am indebted to Adrian for allowing me to display this set on my website. Gallery: Set gallery Number in set: 44 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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| 1963/64 | ||
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Footballers.
A set of 81 green backed 'Make-a-Photo' cards. A superbly democratic
sets of cards from A&BC with four players each from the top 19 teams,
though only 3 from Clyde, making a total of 79 player cards and two
checklists. The cards show very relaxed photos of players within a
coloured oval frame, making the overall effect very appealing.
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| 1964/65 | ||
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Footballers.
An interesting set of 81 green backed 'Quiz' cards, issued in two
series, 1-44 and 45-81. One of the things to note about this set is the
mix of teams, with four players from East Stirlingshire, two from
Stranraer, but only three from Aberdeen. Nice to see the lesser-known
club players featured for a change! Gallery: Set gallery Number in set: 81 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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| 1966/67 | ||
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Footballers.
A set of 66 coloured photograph cards issued in pairs, but most often seen as singles. There
are 42 different individual footballers to collect, although they were
issued as a number of different 'pairs' - each footballer may therefore
appear on more than one paired card. There are 55 known paired card
combinations. There are also 12 paired cards (24 individual cards) which each depict part of a photograph of the Celtic team group - these cards are very rare.
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| 1968/69 | ||
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Footballers
- Yellow backs. Similar to the English yellow backs of the same
year. Douglas Coakley of A&BC Gum has advised that in 1968 they had
terrible trouble in the factory mixing up the English and Scottish cards
so after that year they made the two sets different colours each year.
Apparently there are a number of different versions of each card, where
the photograph and text are the same but the Football Quiz questions
differ. Gallery: Set gallery Number in set: 81 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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pennants.
Team pennants folded in the yellow back card packets, hence the
folds whenever you see these attractive pennants. The pennants have
instructions to 'Cut out Pennant along black line' but thankfully not
too many boys seem to have done this. Number in set: Unknown |
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| 1969/70 | ||
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- Blue backs. A set of 75 cards plus two checklists. Whereas the
previous Scottish sets had only players from Scottish clubs, this set
included a number of English clubs and players.
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Crinkle-cut
photographs. Attractive black
and white photograph cards with a crinkle-cut edge. These cards were issued with the
Blue back set.
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| 1970/71 | ||
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Footballer
- Green backs. The first large Scottish A&BC set. There are
checklist cards 85 and 170, though I'm not sure if these cards were
issued as two series. Gallery: N/A Number in set: 171 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: A&BC counter boxes gallery |
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Pin-ups. An attractive set of 'pin-up' posters issued with the Green
Backs. Since these pin-ups were squeezed into the bubble gum packets
they always have the creases. While the equivalent English set had 14
pin-ups the Scottish, for some reason, has 28. I'm not sure, but suspect
that the first 14 pin-ups where issued with Series 1, and the second 14
(relabelled as 'Superstar posters') were issued with Series 2. Gallery: Set gallery Number in set: 28 Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist
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| 1971/72 | ||
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Footballers
- Purple backs. A&BC reversed their previous decision and went with the
same colour backing for the English and Scottish sets of this year. This
set was issued as two series, 1 to 73 and 74 to 144.
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Football
club crests. Similar to the English set, issued
with Series 2 of the Purple backs. They belonged in an album
which could be ordered from: A&BC Chewing Gum Ltd. Spilsby Road, Romford, Essex Set size: 16. Click
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| 1972/73 | ||
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Footballers
- Blue and Orange/Red backs. This set was issued as two series, 1 to 89 and
90 to
178. Series 1 cards have a blue back, and Series 2 an Orange/Red back.
Card number 178 (George Connelly) is known with both a blue and an
orange/red back. Card number 164 is not known to have been issued.
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| 1973/74 | ||
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Footballers
- Red backs. This set was issued as two series, 1 to 90 and 91 to
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| 1974/75 | ||
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Footballers
- Green backs. The last ever A&BC Footballers production before the
takeover by Topps. A small set, only 132 cards, and no special
giveaways. Checklist card is number 69.
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