T206 Sovereign distributed in United Kingdom?

[jdmeltz]

Card collecting in the UK has been a serious hobby for decades. I lived in England in the early 70's and there were organized public auctions, mostly of British cards, but also including sports cards from the US. I can remember, as a young teenager, arriving too late an an auction to bid on a near complete set of T201's. Here is a link to one big London dealer:
http://www.londoncigcard.co.uk/catalogues.php

[Leon]

UK card collecting most assuredly predates US card collecting, at least as we know it. I have bought quite a few US cards from folks overseas. They seem like a good bunch.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by jdmeltz

Card collecting in the UK has been a serious hobby for decades. I lived in England in the early 70's and there were organized public auctions, mostly of British cards, but also including sports cards from the US. I can remember, as a young teenager, arriving too late an an auction to bid on a near complete set of T201's. Here is a link to one big London dealer:
http://www.londoncigcard.co.uk/catalogues.php

Yes, they have been collecting quite seriously much longer then we have. It's why you can still find 1920's-30's near pristine sports and non-sport sets from the U.K.. for dirt cheap.

They've been bundling their sets up in rice and wax paper since before the War.

I've no doubt they were trading back and forth across the Atlantic with the few serious North American collectors, back in the day.