1972 World War II - COMPLETE SET (series 5,30 cards) (by Trucards)

With Hitler & Churchill !!! Trucards created cards for 'The London Cigarette Card Co. LTD.'

Grade	Mostly ExMt to NM
Book Value	n/a
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1972 World War II - COMPLETE SET (series 5,30 cards) (by Trucards) n cards value

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on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.

1967 Philadelphia Football
The 1967 Philadelphia Football set contained (198) cards. ROOKIES: Leroy Kelly, Lee Roy Jordan, Tommy Nobis, Dan Reeves...
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1966 Topps Football
The 1966 Topps Football set contained (176) cards. Otis Taylor was the top rookie in this set.
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1956 Adventure cards

Issued by Gum Products Inc., this 100-card set covered a variety of subjects. Featuring mostly non-sport like military or wild life, it also had a few sports related cards. The most famous being Max Schmeling's card, removed very early from the set for featuring the Nazi symbol, making it by far the scarcest and most expensive in the set.

The information on back of many cards was somewhat spotty and sometimes wrong. Card #39 claims Yamamoto was shot down in 1953 rather than 1943. Another in demand and interesting card is Boston Red Sox Rookie sensation Harry Agganis and mention of his death on back.

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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)

The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years, baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal. In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball cards in their products as well.

Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in 1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.

The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.