The First Subbuteo Player Type Released in 1947. When these teams were first released, teams were simply printed onto plain sheet of card, and needed to be cut out with scissors by the player but within a few years they had moved on to a press out strip. These Card teams were Replaced by the stronger Celluloid players but were kept in the range for a cheaper alternative. The teams were sold up till they were removed from sale by Waddingtons in the Early 70’s. Some of the later teams/variations are missing but its assumed they were done as Ref 55 has been spotted and the Card range ran alongside the Celluloid and all 1-55 have appeared there…

The Card Teams Had 3 Iterations in Design Firstly the Very Rare First Run of teams The Design/Drawing of the Figures were different and Came in 10 Colours,,, and Differentiate between them and the Cutout Figures that came out a little later in the 40s of which was the second Variation of the Card Figure …. Finally is what I call the Main Range of Figures the most commonly found Card Figures are the Press out figures in the Design we all know…

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