1930-31 DEA Meazza Orsi Ferrari 11 Italy tobacco cards concertina booklet complete AEONIC! see 5 pix

£3,250.00

Description

Dated 1931 but issued 'for 1931', most likely some time towards the end of 1930 because only data from before 1931 is included. It is a complete DEA "Vademecum" booklet of 14 cigarette-card sized cards - most were long ago torn apart to single cards to swap or play with by Italian children a decade before World War 2. In this complete state it is very far from common! Understatements aside... most of these tobacco-card sized cards were torn to singles, used, collected, glued down, gamed and most have been long since lost. This is complete: it has 11 players plus 3 title or info cards, with Combi, Meazza, Raimundo Orsi, Giovanni Ferrari (and that's just 4 of the future World Cup legends - this was 3 years before the first of their World Cup wins!) In all you get the lot: covers and 11 Italian stars between, still connected, though some loosely, in a concertina booklet. So, it is complete but there are some tears between some of the cards -on the folds. Probably the only 1 on the market. Only 1 ever seen by this seller. EXTREMELY RARE! Note: original owner annotated (hand annotated in pen: "1931, 1932 and 1933 data" on one of the info cards, as seen) SOLD AS SEEN with the in mind.