The ONLY site on the internet dedicated to the fantastic collection of Taddy footballers from the Edwardian era of cigarette smoking.
Congratulations on navigating your way to my website dedicated to the Taddy ‘Prominent Footballers’ cards of the early 20th century. Hopefully you will find something here of interest, even if it’s only your own team cards. Encouraged by long-time collector and enthusiast Matt Stevens, my aim to present images of every card available together with any kind of information and history that I can find has now been achieved!
My grateful thanks go to Wolves collector John Lewis who points out that Wanderers player S. Ward appears in both the ‘Grapnel’ and ‘Imperial‘ issues of the first (no footnote) series of these cards.
Do YOU know of any other variations which I am missing?
My grateful thanks go to collector Francis Peacock who has correctly pointed out that QPR player J. MacDonald appears as an ‘Imperial‘ variation of the second (footnote) series of these cards; I had previously listed him in the ‘Grapnel‘ issues. This now casts significant doubt on whether he does actually appears in the ‘Grapnel‘ issue too (many players did indeed appear in both).
Can YOU contact me to confirm this one way or the other?
Big news! Matt Stevens has contacted me with images of two more Southampton footballers in the 2nd issue (“Imperial” with footnote), namely Glover and Robertson, thus bringing the total in that sub-set to fourteen and the whole collection total to 1402 of which there are now 1264 footballers and officials. This leads Matt to suggest that there is still one more Southampton player out there waiting to be found – Layton, anybody? 😉
The what?!
It’s there in the MENU – click it and find out… 🙂
I am grateful to Chris England for pointing out that my Crystal Palace page was actually short of six player cards. I don’t know how this could possibly have happened, but it did. Chris supplied me with a card for Woodger and Matt Stevens has come through with all of the others.
This is, of course, a salutary lesson in the need to CHECK before publishing! If you find any other oversights please get in touch so that I can make corrections.
I have finally added the last team subset, that of Southampton ‘London Mixture’. As ever, images have been supplied by the ever-reliable Matt Stevens.
I will now only be adding anything which enhances the information behind these cards, such as collectors’ notes and stories; there are no more images to add.
Thanks for sticking with me. 🙂
I know that it’s been an awful long time a-coming, but I have finally got another complete sub-set up here – Preston North End. My thanks – as ever – go to Matt Stevens for supplied the required images.
Just Southampton to go now – keep your eyes peeled, because I HAVE got the images! 😉
My thanks once more go to Matt Stevens who has provided images for the ‘London Mixture’ set of Bradford City players, meaning that this particular ‘sub-set’ is now complete.
Only Preston and Southampton required now and then the website will be complete! 🙂
I am grateful to Manchester City fan and collector Brian Houghton for sharing his collecting experiences with us. Click the link to read his story and also to see if you can help him in his quest for the missing cards.
Taddy 'Prominent Footballers' 