1948 Carreras Turf Cigarettes Footballers — Neil Franklin #24 — Stoke City & England
1948
Neil Franklin appears here in a 1948 Turf issue, when cigarette cards were still part of the everyday visual economy of post-war football. The blank reverse is not damage or incompleteness but part of the issue itself, a useful reminder that card formats were never as standardised as modern collecting sometimes suggests.
Read the catalogue note →- Season
- 1948
- Set
- Turf Cigarettes Footballers — Series of 50
- Subject
- Neil Franklin
- Club shown
- Stoke City
- Card number
- 24
- Grading
- Light age/handling and edge/corner wear; no numeric grade.
- Condition
- Light age/handling and edge/corner wear; no numeric grade.
- Completeness
- Complete; blank reverse is issue-correct.
Catalogue note
Neil Franklin appears here in a 1948 Turf issue, when cigarette cards were still part of the everyday visual economy of post-war football. The blank reverse is not damage or incompleteness but part of the issue itself, a useful reminder that card formats were never as standardised as modern collecting sometimes suggests.
Archive significance: Pre-1950 Turf card of England centre-half Neil Franklin; strong post-war football and cigarette-card evidence supports Gold.
Historical context: A pre-1950 portrait of England centre-half Neil Franklin in the Turf Footballers issue.
Why this object matters
The 1948 Franklin Turf issue preserves a distinct post-war cigarette-card format and Stoke/England subject. Its issue-correct blank reverse is not incompleteness, and the existing outstanding score remains defensible.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
A pre-1950 portrait of England centre-half Neil Franklin in the Turf Footballers issue.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.6 / 10.
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