Description:
The only 1 owned in 40 years of collecting! Issued sometime circa 1918 to circa 1920 (these cards were issued both sides of 1920) Dick Kerr's Ladies, the very first football card made for the first women's football team, by Baines of Bradford. The address on the back. It shows the non-Ltd arm of the former family (Baines) firm, still being based in Bradford, very early in the 1920's it moved to Gillingham in Kent.
NOTE: This card pre-dates both the 1922 Pattreiouex card (Casket cigarettes) and the 1924 Barratt & Co. sweet cigarettes card of Dick Kerr's ladies, so it is the earliest known soccer card for the most famous & one of the world's earliest women's soccer team, dating most likely to 1918 probably after Kerr's ladies' spectacular Xmas Day 1917 match at Deepdale, Preston, which caused a national stir.
NOTE: This card pre-dates both the 1922 Pattreiouex card (Casket cigarettes) and the 1924 Barratt & Co. sweet cigarettes card of Dick Kerr's ladies, so it is the earliest known soccer card for the most famous & one of the world's earliest women's soccer team, dating most likely to 1918 probably after Kerr's ladies' spectacular Xmas Day 1917 match at Deepdale, Preston, which caused a national stir.