Some fantastic pick-ups there, Sal! My favourite is the Tendulkar Yorkshire card (even though I'm emphatically NOT a Yorkshire fan! Haha). Fantastic that you have two copies signed! At quick glance I assumed pre-printed, but when you showed the second, clearly not. Great pick-ups! That James Anderson card definitely looks to be from his debut ODI series in Australia, 2002/03 - playing kits and Jimmy's hair style match. I was at that series, as well as his first few Tests and Tests thereafter. What a star he became! I also like the County produced post-cards. Great project for those who collect autographs on the County circuit to try to get them all signed (as are the Who's Who of County Cricket books). Keep up the great work. 👍
Awesome pick up Sal, the Tendulkar auto card is amazing🔥if those big cards have a card number at the back I would definitely consider them rookie cards, just my take🔥🔥🔥
Very nice cards Sal - a couple of corrections - according to a couple of local (W.A. sources), the W.A. Smokefree set was produced in 2002, while the English Sportscaster cards were issued in 1977 (1st issue - 21 cards inc. I.V.A. Richards + the explanatory booklet), 1978 (2nd issue - 41 cards), 1979 (3rd issue - 61 cards) & 1980 (4th issue - 5 cards) - In total 128 cricket themed cards (+ Booklet). In addition there are also releases of 2nd, 3rd & 4th printings of the cards from all four years, signified by a capital letter A, B or C at the end of the (C) Copyright line on the card reverse (I have two different versions of the Viv Richards card in my collection of the Sportscaster issues!) Finally, they were also issued in other European Countries apart from England, with French, Swedish & Swiss foreign language issues known to me - presumably Viv's card exists in these formats also (I wish I had them too!)
Always appreciate your expertise mate!!! I believe my 2 Viv Richards sportscasters are first printing (1977) based on what you shared here. Regarding the WA SmokeFree set: There is a 'Captaincy' card featuring Damien Martyn and Tom Moody. I believe Moody took over as captain from Martyn prior to the 1995/96 season. So would 1995 make sense? There are actually 2 Moody cards and he retired from cricket in 2000 so I can't imagine that the set would be from 2002? Brendon Julian is also in the set and retired around the same time. All the players in the set were on WA in 1995
Awesome Video. Have some oversized cards of Sachin myself. These were from the 2003 world cup. Britannia cards. Would love to show you those. Any plans of selling the Richards card?
Nice signed collectables. I like the oversized cards! Love the McGraw!
Some fantastic pick-ups there, Sal!
My favourite is the Tendulkar Yorkshire card (even though I'm emphatically NOT a Yorkshire fan! Haha).
Fantastic that you have two copies signed! At quick glance I assumed pre-printed, but when you showed the second, clearly not. Great pick-ups!
That James Anderson card definitely looks to be from his debut ODI series in Australia, 2002/03 - playing kits and Jimmy's hair style match. I was at that series, as well as his first few Tests and Tests thereafter. What a star he became!
I also like the County produced post-cards. Great project for those who collect autographs on the County circuit to try to get them all signed (as are the Who's Who of County Cricket books).
Keep up the great work. 👍
Thanks for the info on Jimmy Anderson. Sounds like it might be his first issue or close to it.
And agree that the Sachin is a sweet card
Cheers!!
Awesome pick up Sal, the Tendulkar auto card is amazing🔥if those big cards have a card number at the back I would definitely consider them rookie cards, just my take🔥🔥🔥
I appreciate it mate. The rookie card question is always an interesting one! Lots of opinions
Very nice cards Sal - a couple of corrections - according to a couple of local (W.A. sources), the W.A. Smokefree set was produced in 2002, while the English Sportscaster cards were issued in 1977 (1st issue - 21 cards inc. I.V.A. Richards + the explanatory booklet), 1978 (2nd issue - 41 cards), 1979 (3rd issue - 61 cards) & 1980 (4th issue - 5 cards) - In total 128 cricket themed cards (+ Booklet). In addition there are also releases of 2nd, 3rd & 4th printings of the cards from all four years, signified by a capital letter A, B or C at the end of the (C) Copyright line on the card reverse (I have two different versions of the Viv Richards card in my collection of the Sportscaster issues!) Finally, they were also issued in other European Countries apart from England, with French, Swedish & Swiss foreign language issues known to me - presumably Viv's card exists in these formats also (I wish I had them too!)
Always appreciate your expertise mate!!!
I believe my 2 Viv Richards sportscasters are first printing (1977) based on what you shared here.
Regarding the WA SmokeFree set:
There is a 'Captaincy' card featuring Damien Martyn and Tom Moody. I believe Moody took over as captain from Martyn prior to the 1995/96 season. So would 1995 make sense? There are actually 2 Moody cards and he retired from cricket in 2000 so I can't imagine that the set would be from 2002? Brendon Julian is also in the set and retired around the same time. All the players in the set were on WA in 1995
Awesome Video. Have some oversized cards of Sachin myself. These were from the 2003 world cup. Britannia cards. Would love to show you those. Any plans of selling the Richards card?
Very cool
No plans to sell any at the moment mate