OK, cheers! I did think they were probably pretty standard given all the 1908 comments floating about earlier, but you never know.

Address on pm

this shouldnt really go on here , but i was wondering if anybody knew if the american major league soccer leagues or the nasl ( defunct i think ) produced sticker albums . I am looking for some for the mid seventies to early eighties . Had a look on ebay but nothing listed

this is palace related , got 16 panini superplayers stickers all palace and the players are wearing a red tracksuit top. can someone confirm that they are from the superplayers 1998 album.

Yes they are Panini Superplayers 98

cheers , i was looking at the album on the panini website but wasnt sure it was the same.

got the web address ?
Yours,
Mr. Sad of Dorking

have some merlin kick off stickers crystal palace can someone please confirm if they are from kick off 97 or kick off 98 please. They have an orange border and are carlo nash ( number 63 ) among others.

I also have some spare fks soccer 81 palace stickers ( these have been cut out from the album ) if anyone needs/wants these please let me know.
the stickers are number 71 badge, 72 john burridge, 73 jim cannon,74 terry fenwick,75 mike flanagan,77 billy gibert,78 vince hilaire,79 paul hinselwood,80 jerry murphy, 81 peter nicholas and 82 ken sansom

Must be Kick Off 97 as we didn't figure in the 98 edition....

thanks for the info

:)

I was reframing an old picture I have and behind the picture I found a set of Player's cards. Only 9 so not a full set. One was of H. Thoms. It is from the 1928-29 2nd series 51-75. He didn't play many games for us. Why would he be featured?

Dunno but it's not rare at all - worth about £1

Guessed it wasn't worth much, just wondered why he was included.

Not sure why - I have a reference book at home, will look into it.

Most likely because that was the old Palace player's photo available to the artist at the time. This was 1920's, we were a lowly team and sport photograpy was in its infancy. I doubt that there was a wide choice of reference material.

A nice find though :)

What Neil said is the most likely answer
Looking at the listing of subjects, it was simply a set of 25 cards, each from a different club, and with the novelty of being a colour issue, was as much about showing the different club colours amongst those 25 clubs, as it was about the actual players.
We were in Division 3 so had no players that were "stars" so Neils answer is the most likely.

Thanks guys. Anyone want the card? I collect programmes but not cards. Cost - a pint next time I'm back.

give away time again .

I have 4 orange back topps cards to give away they are Bobby Tambling , Jim Scott, Mel Blyth and John Sewell
none are in mint condition .
send me a pm if you want them

Could someone possibly e-mail me with the most recent list of cards. I purchased a couple on eBay last week (including the 1928-29 H.Thoms card) and am keen to see what else is out there.

Hi andy, send me your e-mail address again, I'll send you it down...

Any truth in the rumour Neil that you were mainly pleased we won promotion so that you could resume your Palace card collection again ?
:D

Nah, its more fun collecting all the old stuff...

Neil , I noticed on the euro 04 card thread that you are looking for a Berhalter card.
I got mine on ebay by searching for 'Panini world cup 2002' and sending messages to people selling individual cards or 'bulk swaps'.
I paid less than a pound for the card. Might be worth a try !

Thanks fella. Have been doing that, just missed out on one today. I'll get the bugger soon tho'...

Got your pm and am updating the list with some new finds from another collector... just when you think you are getting close, somebody adds another load!

HELP!!!

This is driving me nuts... someone posted up some scans to their old FKS sticker collections sometime in the last month... I can't bloody find those scans now despite 30 mins searching and need to check something...

Anyone remember what thread they are on?

http://gallery.cpfc.org/Various-Kember-photos

is this the one ?

That's it, I'm sure they were in a thread originally, good work fella.

Spotted a new badge, I'd not previously listed:

http://gallery.cpfc.org/Various-Kemb...tos/6970_G_001

Actually this is weird, I have that sticker book and on mine there is no space for a badge... looking closely its just been stuck on the page randomly... anyone know what collection that badge is from?

Re the above and John Sewell looking for cards:I sent him the 1970 A&BC set a couple of years ago,if I remember rightly the cards were:
Jackson,Sewell,Wall,Kember,Blyth,McCormick,Scott,P ayne,Tambling,Queen,and Birchenall.All cards were in great nick and suitable for framing.He is a great bloke-he sent me a great old photo as thanks-which I wasn't expecting.
Heard recently that he'd lost his business due to the earthquake in California at the start of this year?,hope he's got up and running again now.

Anyone know if any new sticker/card collections are out yet?
I see Merlin are an official partner of the Premier League this season, so expect at the very least, a "Kick off" sticker album, any time now, as well as the main collection at Xmas time

Definitely nothing out yet.

I'd guess they'll do them at the end of the month perhaps, once all the transfers are done ?

Have been on the internet today
No talk at Merlin about a "Kick Off" sticker album
There will be of course be a Merlin Premier League 2005 Album, and you can already pre-order your album and starter pack of stickers prior to the book being released in December

There will also be collector cards issued by Wizard of the Coast, part of some sort of card collecting game a bit like Pokemon. Never really understood the game aspect of cards, just collect Palace ones.

sorry mate its my album , all the teams have badges on apart from one , from memory I think it looks like it has been peeled off that page

i can do a better scan if you like ?

Merlin "Kick off" album is out. Mini stickers + Bubblegum 22 stickers per pack 60p. Palace have badge, large sticker of Michael Hughes, 2 medium size stickers of Granville and Routledge + mini oval stickers of Berthelin, Popovic, Butterfield, Routledge, Granville, Leigertwood, Hughes, Riihilahti, Derry, Shipperley and Johnson.

Also from October Smarties have Kick off cans and bars containing stickers. Palace have a sticker of a "full back who made his premiership debut for Chelsea in April 1997 against Arsenal."

You can buy packs online at http://www.merlinonline.com/archive/...sp?coll=KO2005

Don't get caught out. I was about to throw out all the bubblegum when my son had one and there are stickers wrapped aroung the gum inside the wrappers. Got Michael Hughes though.

Hooray! We're in a sticker collection again!
To me this signifies "Palace are Back!".

Can we make this thread a sticky.





Coat please (sorry)

Sorry to butt in. Perhaps someone can help me. I've just uncovered a Pannini Football 78 album in good nick. It has 6 stickers missing. Do you think any one would be interested in it if I ebayed it? Or would it have to be complete.

It has hilarious pics of Trev, Kember in a natty Leicester shirt. Can't justify fiitting it onto a shelf in my small home.

Also got a Football 80 album with only a few stickers in it. It has a rather portly Gerry Francis exerting himself for palace against Man Utd on the cover. (one of the stickers is Smurf Murphy)

:hi:

Finally got hold of the new Premier League sticker album. To say it's small is an understatement! The album is pocket size, and the stickers are smaller than stamps!
Got a few packs of stickers to see what they'd be like and there are 22 in each pack, for 60p. The stickers come 6 or 8 to a sheet (the sheet is the size of a standard sticker), then there are an extra two in each pack, wrapped inside a sticky piece of bazooka gum.
Probably the worst "sticker collection" ever, but essential to an obsessive like me!

still great to see palace back on the sticker side of things

Certainly worth putting it on ebay if you need to get rid. I recently sold 78 and 80 Pannini's for at least £10-20 (can't quite remember exactly how much) a time. If almost complete you should get a tenner - do a search on completed auctions as a guide.

Shoot-Out 2004-2005 Premier League Trading Cards are out. 18 Palace players;

Speroni, Granville, Butterfield, Popovic, Hudson, Boyce, hall, Hughes, Black, Watson, Riihilahti, Derry, Kolka, Routledge, Freedman, Johnson, Torghelle and Kaviedes.

I've got 6 so far. Terrible picture follows:

Fantastic - whre did you buy those from?
By the way so far I only have one Palace player from the kick off collection!!! I am eagerly awaiting a specialist catalogue (oo-er) from a dealer which enables you to just buy the ones you want rather than have to buy thousands of unopened packets in order to get the palace ones

They're from WH Smiths (I got mine from East Grinstead). There is an order form with the folder (4.99GBP) which allows you to order up to 20 "to complete your collection" ;) which I think you can download from http://www.magicboxint.com

My son has decided to collect the full set.

I have some palace spares of the kick-off set (not sure what ones at the moment) I could let you have. I would be interested of the name of the 'specialist catalogue' if you have it as the kick-off ones are costing a small fortune - and they're not that good quality.

Actually just checked the website and the shoot out "complete your collection" is not there yet, although the order form is in the start-off pack with the folder etc. Downside is that that is 4.99GBP. BTW each pack costs 0.35GBP and there are 6 cards per pack.

Not being cynical but if you can order 20 to "complete your collection" what's to stop you just ordering the 18 palace ones!!!!
Saw the packs of 6 shhotout cards in woolies at 35p, but not the "starter pack"
will try wh smith
the specialist dealer is "David Schollick" who hails from Yate in Bristol - email d.schollick@freeola.net
over the last couple of years his catalogues have been very sporadic, ie one every 3 to 5 months
over the space of 4 catalogs he lists everything he has for sale, and it is basically every sticker/card ever issued, pro-set, panini, merlin, futera etc etc, back to the 60's. You can order by the sticker/card

Exactly, and as far as I can see there is no limit on players from one team. Thanks for the dealer's name . I'll look him up.

Hmmm stickers!!

I don't seem to be doing very well on the Kick-Off ones either, but have some swops. I have 9 of the Magic Box set (had 10 but lost Tommy Black whilst getting out of the car- pillock), but no Palace swaps.

I've got a small pile of swops from other teams if your son is interested in a bit of dealing, Axie!

i have a spare Tommy Black and a spare Routledge if anyone wants to swap for some palace players

Tommy Black , Emmerson Boyce, Dougie Freedman , Danny Butterfield and Wayne Routledge from the same collection .
I cant wait until the merlin album comes out , should be 24 palace stickers to collect

RE: Magic Box/Shoot out cards

Right, I have in swops: Butterfield, Boyce, Freedman, Hall, Aki, Routledge

I need: Speroni, Hudson, Watson, Derry, Johnson & Torghelle.

Anyone wanna deal?

Also anyone know where is selling the Merlin Kickoff packs? I seem to have bought out all the local stockists.

New collection from Topps out soon too.

are you collecting the full set or just palace players Neil ?

keep telling myself its just the Palace players but will probably collect the full set of the Magic Box ones as I have well over half of them now.

Deffo just the palace players for kickoff and topps though (honest, sue).

See me on Tuesday Neil, I have all those Shoot Out ones (bar one) that you need.

Topps Premier stars 2004 cards are out now (including brief stats on the back of each).

There are 245 in the whole set, including 11 players for each side.

There's also one 3 in 1 motion card for each team.

The Palace cards (numbered) are:

86 - Flix Pix
87 - Julian Speroni
88 - Danny Butterfield
89 - Tony Popovic
90 - Wayne Routledge
91 - Aki Riihilahti
92 - Michael Hughes
93 - Mark Hudson
94 - Shaun Derry
95 - Tommy Black
96 - Joonas Kolkka
97 - Andrew Johnson

The new Topps/Merlin 2005 premier league stickers (and book) are out in December.

Those horrible little kick off mini-stickers are in plentiful supply around here Neil - you must have been buying them by the case !

Kick off stickers :
Piles of kick off stickers on sale at WH Smiths Crawley.
I think Iwill just buy 10 quids worth, then try to get what I need by swapping. Trouble is I don't stick mine in, so have to keep every sticker intact, ie all 7 other players still on the sticker.

Magic Box cards:
Put a bid in to buy the full set of magic box cards on ebay, can't be bothered to go through all the hassle of collecting.

Topps Premier Stars cards:
Another set!!!! This is what being in the Prem is all about! Stockist info please!

I've seen the new Topps cards in local newsagents DE.

I think they came out last week. Five cards per packet, 50p each ! (the Shoot Out ones are better quality and are only 35p !)

After a trip to an untried local Smith's, things are now looking better on the kickoff front. Only need:

141 - Michael Hughes (the wraparound one that comes in the bubblegum)
149 - Aki Riihilathi
154 - Wayne Routledge (mid size)
S8 - Danny Granville (the one that comes with the Smarties)

Have tons of Palace swops now too.

Anyone wanna deal?

Probably will do swaps with you Neil, but as of yet have very little Kick off stuff.
Will stock up and get back to you in a few days (going to Azerbaijan this week)

I have just had a look at ebay, and people are now selling swaps. Could be useful place to trade/buy/sell.
Have changed my stance on separating the kick off stickers. I cut neatly, they look ok so I might do that after all.

No sign of the Topps Premier stars cards in Dorking yet. Just got a hefty supply of kick off stickers from Smiths though. Should have fun peeling the large stickers off the bubblegum tonight.
No sign of the smarties cans yet which are supposed to have the large stickers in them.

Last time there was a kick off collection with Palace in it, I had to get through about 100 packets of wotsits just to get a tiny Andy Linighan sticker!

Noted, mate.

Have a good time in MON, wish I was going. I got a late ticket for Old trafford in the end, was good to see an England match again after something of a break

I wasn't collecting them last time around and I didn't even know about them being in Wotsits packets until I had a packet for lunch one day and Andy fell out on my desk!

For some sentimental reason, I kept it for years in my desk, it was still there when I got back into collecting. One less to buy from the dealer!

Neil , do you colect the photo cards the club do. if so do you know how much they are charging this year. last years were 25p each




finally got through to club shop and they are still 25p each

No I don't, but would be intrested in a complete list of them for anyone that has collected them from the start.

They started in 2001/2 season I think.

Back from windy Azerbaijan. I pity the poor souls who have to live there - what a depressing place. Like the poor relation of the poorest Eastern European country you could imagine. I reckon even Iran is a nicer place to live with a better quality of life.
Anyway, I returned home to a load of Palace kick off stickers from someone advertising a swapping service on ebay
I need 137 (Shaun Derry)
140 (club badge)
and the round smarties sticker S8 (however haven't seen these on sale yet anywhere so they might not be out yet)

I'm not much use to anyone on here though as I have no Palace doubles to swap. I have a reasonable number of swaps of stickers from the other 19 clubs if anyone is trying to complete the collection, but I guess my best bet will be to swap with people who are swapping via ebay adverts.

Now onto the new Topps cards (if I can find someone selling all the Palace ones in a job lot on ebay like the shootout complete set I got for £4 then I'll be happy)

my cousin flies to Baku regulary and gets loads of dvds from there

************************************************** **
Last seasons photos are
steve kember
terry bullivant
jamie smith
shaun derry
neil shipperley
dougie freedman
andy johnson
hayden mullins
tony popovic
kit symons
danny butterfield
gavin heeroo
ade akinbiyi
darren powell
ben surey
lance cronin
curtis fleming
wayne routledge
aki riihilahti
gary borrowdale
tommy black
cedric berthelin
ben watson
matt clarke
danny granville
thats the cards i have

though there was an Iian Dowie card and Julian Gray is missing for the list not sure if a card for him was done at a later date . this is not a complete list i dont think

Bought all 12 Topps Premier Stars cards on ebay just now (using buy it now, so no silly auction nonsense) - £2.15 plus 60p postage. There are still 8 sets still available.

Saves having to overspend on pack after pack of cards.

Only thing to beware of is that there are 12 Palace cards (11 players plus on flixpix thingy card) and some ebay sellers are selling the 11 player cards as a "complete set" without the flixpix card.

Great!!

Thanks for the heads up there Dave.

2004/2005 photo cards purcashed from the club shop this season are huge A5 size !!!
they are
Mike Kelly,Kit Symons,Bob Dowie, Iain Dowie, John Harbin ( all in white away shirt)
and all the players in the squad 1-33 apart from cedric berthelin (13), gareth willaims ( 23 ) was included though.

Smarties stickers still not out

details of their stickers at
http://www.smarties.co.uk/merlin/kickoff.html

seems to be two stickers per "can" of smarties
OR eat 4 smarties "bars", send off the wrappers and get six stickers.

Looks like getting the Granville smarties sticker could be hard work!

I know it's nothing to do with stickers or cards, but I don't want to be identified as the saddo who started the palace badges thread, so did anyone else get one of those nice unofficial "match badges" from last nights carling cup game? Both crests, venue date and competition. Rather good I thought!

Dorking .Eagle any chance of a scan of the badge?

i'm going newcastle today anyone else

4 different colourway match badges for our game at Anfield, plus a beaty of a badge for the game at Southampton.
And still the Merlin collection and the elusive smarties sticker to come! I love being in the Prem!!

Just got the new Premier League album and 75 stickers. So far I have the following Palace stickers - the Popovic captain sticker, Boyce, Hudson and Granville.

got the same pack i think £4.99 gets you an album and 75 stickers

Stickers are
199 club crest
200 team photo
201 home kit
202 away kit
203 dougie freedman
204 tony popovic
205 speroni
206 kiraly
207 borrowdale
208 butterfield
209 granville
210 hall
211 hudson
212 popovic
213 boyce
214 derry
215 hughes
216 kolkka
217 riihilahti
218 routledge
219 ventola
220 torghelle
221 freedman
222 johnson
223 ian dowie
224,wayne routledge ( key player )
225 danny granville ( key player )
226 andrew johnson ( key player )
also in the album is a pre-printed sticker of Kolkka on page 63

Great stuff!

how sad/cool is this , in the new premier league album you can get a sticker of yourself done for any team in the premier league ....

Way cool.

Words fail me...

You could even send them photos of famous people/other footballers.
Ronaldo as a Palace sticker! or Beckham! or even Simon Jordan if that does it for you!

Where's the upchuck smilie?

Any sign of the smarties stickers yet Neil?
I don't reckon they are gonna bother now.

Nope, neither do I.

Now that the main set is out I think that the Kick off stickers will not be re-stocked any more in shops, and the smarties ones won't come out at all.

http://www.smarties.co.uk/merlin/kickoff.html

this may help

Saw em yesterday, mini-cans are 79p... only one can left in store, ripped the top and found a Norwich sticker so left it!!

oh good stuff
hopefully the dealers will have them in their next catalogues then!
Can't be bothered to buy packs and packs of the main merlin 95 set, will just send off for the Palace ones.

Back on the record in the matter of Merlin Kick Off stickers...

I decided to collect all of these simply because I had so damned many of them, that when I counted I only needed about 30! Thanks to ebay I've whittled that down to 11 to complete my album, anyone holding a batch of swops they want to trade with??

I mainly need the big stickers wrapped in the bazooka bubblegum.

Anyone?

I've got some spare bubble gum you can have Neil, if that's any help ?

No, just the stickers thanks.

Neil, I'll have a look at the weekend for some swaps of the large bubble gum stickers (the ones that were badly wrapped around the gum). I'll have to check with my son who is also collecting them. What ones do you require ?

Ok here goes:

2, 80, 118, 179, 362

(still need #24 of the main stickers)

Also Palace ones: 137, 141, 153 to complete the album (I have collected one complete set but am not sticking them in the album as they will be going in my saddo, plastic-pouch Palace sticker collection)

Smarties: S8, S10, S12, S13, S14, S18, S19 and the special smarties issue round sticker of the normal collection featuring a Palace player (I have no idea who though).

What does your son need?

Sorry Neil for the delay in replying. I've had a look and we haven't got any swaps of the ones you require sorry. My son has been collecting for his little brother and sister as well so swaps of the kick-off ones are few and far between.

I have got lots of shoot out and Merlin Premier League '05 swaps + a full set of palace pro match series 3 1998 if you're interested.

Thanks for checking mate, am down to just three now: 80, 179, 362

If you should happen across any of those in the future, let me know (and still the same smarties list).

I have a big bundle of swops, pm me with your son's wants and I'll see what I can dig out. Regarding your shoot-out swops are they all teams or just Palace.

Shoot out swaps are all teams including Palace.

Off topic I know but I've just unearthed two tapes of interviews from Radio London 25/10/1981 of Paul Barron and 9/1/1983 with the anti-christ, if anyone is interested I'll try and transcribe.

Could be interesting, maybe for a feature in PE if Neil's interested Axie ?

Depends what the subject matter is... might be better for Don's Oral history.