A&BC CHEWING GUM LTD.

A&BC Chewing Gum Ltd. formed in 1949, are one of the best remembered card producers from the last century. Their sets included amongst many other things pop stars, film stars, TV stars and cricketers. The company produced their first set of sports cards in 1954 - ‘All Sport’.  The 120 card set of sporting personalities included 36 footballers. Their first all-football card set followed in 1958 and the company would issue at least one set of football cards each year for the next 16 years before being taken over by American company Topps Chewing Gum in 1975.

 1971/72 FOOTBALLER (PURPLE BACKS)

This set was issued in three series - cards 1 to 109, cards 110-219 and cards 220-290. Each packet of cards / chewing gum cost 2p. For reasons unknown the George McVitie card appears to be far rarer than the other Albion cards in the set and is rarely seen for sale.

Number of cards in set: 290
Number of Albion cards in set: 12

The card backs are enlargeable by clicking on them

3 - JEFF ASTLE			23 - RAY WILSON

43 - JIM CUMBES			66 - TONY BROWN

93 - JOHN KAYE			118 - LEN CANTELLO

140 - BOBBY HOPE			168 - GRAHAM LOVETT

184 - COLIN SUGGETT			231 - ASA HARTFORD

244 - GEORGE MCVITIE			258 - ALAN MERRICK

Card Dimensions: H 80mm x W 55mm