Welcome to Card World

.... the virtual version of the Cartophilic Society, encouraging, and promoting card collecting for almost a century.

And also bringing collectors together, wherever they live, and whatever sort of cards they love. 

On this website you can find out about us and our activities, discover more about our Card World, and explore our ever growing archives.

A free newsletter is uploaded every Saturday morning too

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    Books, glorious Books...

    Our Bookshop is open all hours, and offers secure payment facilities on our Tobacco and Trade Indexes, plus Handbooks. We also have more specialist volumes, those devoted to one single issuer, or to exploring the formerly uncharted spheres of silks, laces, and leathers. 

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    What`s New .....

    Have you ever wondered how our weekly newsletter is constructed? Well, you may be interested to hear that this week`s is actually still under construction, so if you would like to watch things appearing gradually, keep popping in. This is the Diary Dates card for today, but we are currently writing the text for Tuesday the 14th of May. 

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    Regional Events

    PLEASE NOTE - Cheshire`s May 12th meeting is postponed

    • Sunday May 12th - Hants & Surrey - from 1.30pm at  Normandy Village Hall GU3 2DD.
    • Monday May 13th - Northampton - 6 pm - 9 pm at Weston Favell Parish Hall NN3 3EP

     

    click here for all our events

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Join Us !

A close-up of a selection of cigarette cards relating to flags and nations. Everyone can visit this website for free. However if you are a card collector, joining us brings many extra benefits and privileges .....
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Join In !

11 mar 24 Come and meet us at our regional events, which are held right around the country - and hopefully there is one near you!
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News and updates

Oliver Cleaver 21 May 2023
6th May 2024
Thinking of Streamlining Your Collection?
I am currently buying Cigarette & Trade Card Types, Sets and Collections. Contact Oliver Cleaver on 07899 300405    - or by email at olivercleaver@hotmail.co.uk
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6th May 2024
JS Cards
Our updated website - www.cigarettecards.com - is now up and running, and we are continually adding new stock. Higher value cards are always wanted for purchase.
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gavel
28th April 2024
Hants & Surrey Auction - last bids 22 May 2024
Here is an auction catalogue from one of our Branches. And don`t forget if YOUR Branch runs auctions we will happily show your catalogues on here too.... along with pictures of some of the lots that are included within.
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Latest newsletter:
11th May 2024
Well this is the oddest newsletter that I have ever penned, apart from the one after "that concert" of course, when I was rendered quite unable to do anything at all for several days. It was so amazing. 
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Card of the day

Every night, at about midnight, we pop in and display the front of a new card. You get till 8pm that night to test your card knowledge, just for fun. The cards on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are clues to the week`s theme, which provides the subject of the rest of the cards of the week. And if any reader would like to send us a jpeg scan of the front and the back of an unusual card which is relevant to that theme, or any information, please do - the email address is webmaster@card-world.co.uk And you can see all the cards of that week, plus read what we have discovered, or been told about them, in our weekly newsletter, which is uploaded, for all visitors to read, free of charge, every Saturday morning.
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