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Originally Posted by Huysmans
It is true....
There is a difference between "producing" and "collecting".
What are the VALUES of those boxing, golf, etc cards produced by the English traditionally? Peanuts. Especially compared to cards produced in North America.
Why? Because so few collect them. This isn't complicated.... IF there were many British collectors, the values over time would have increased, just like sports cards in North America. But almost no one there collectors or cares, hence low values for vintage English "sports" cards.
It's illogical for there to be a huge plethora of British card collectors, but despite this, the prices on vintage British sports cards stay extremely modest? ..... to the point it appears that no one collects them?
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That's so incredibly wrong it's hard to even respond.
Collecting Tobacco and other cards was big enough in England that they had a national society in 1938, And had excellent and fairly comprehensive catalogs by the 1940's. Lots of catalogs some detailing the issues of a single manufacturer. Wills produced their first cards in 1896, and continued at least into the 1960's. (And may still produce cards? I'm not up on their modern stuff)
Their collecting culture is geared towards complete sets in very nice condition. Not difficult, as the sets are generally small, 50 cards.
And they were saved in huge quantities.
That's why they're inexpensive, there are still loads of very nice complete sets around.
The collecting seems to be more of a "collect everything" type like Burdick.
https://card-world.co.uk/