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. 

We are currently having a bit of a late spring clean. So this week you will find the latest news on the rolling banner, at the moment this links to our events page, our bookshop, and our weekly newsletter. However do watch that space, for the content will be changing more regularly, and allowing you to connect more easily with anniversaries from our past. 

Find out more about us
  • Kimball "Girls"

    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 titles devoted to one single issuer, or to the wonderful worlds of silks, laces, and leathers. 

    Click here to read more
  • Brooke Bond "Small Wonders"

    What`s New .....

    Today, Sunday 19th May, but in 1985, saw the opening of one of our Middlesex clubs, called "The Bees Cigarette Card Club". Sadly it is no longer in existence - but we would love to hear your memories of the club, and/or its founder Nat Chait, of Nathan`s Pipe Shop, Richmond. 

    click here to read more
  • London2

    Regional Events

    • Monday May 20th -
      London - from 5 pm - with auction at 6.15 - at The Carpenters Arms W1H 7NE
    • Wednesday May 22nd -
      closing Date for Hants & Surrey Branch postal auction
    • Thursday May 23rd - 
      Nottingham & East Midlands - 7.30 to 9.30pm at West Bridgford Conservative Club NG2 6BG.
    click here for all our events

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Join Up !

A close-up of a selection of cigarette cards relating to flags and nations. Everyone can visit this website for free, as many times as they like. However joining The Cartophilic Society 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
13th 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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13th 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
5th May 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:
18th May 2024
So I hope you enjoyed last week`s little glimpse into how these newsletters are constructed? It was fun for me to do it that way, and who knows, it may [need to] be repeated in the future. 
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More from Card World

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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20 may 24