SET ONE THE PREMIER COLLECTION
THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION THE LOBBY CARD COLLECTION
THE CANDID COLLECTION POSTER ARTWORK COLLECTION
Introduction
Collecting
Laurel and Hardy Trading cards is a wonderful way to see many rare Black
and White and colour images from days gone by. A trading card (or collectible
card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. Such
items have great potential for appreciation and can become collector's items.
Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports; baseball cards are
especially well-known. Modern non-sports trading cards often feature cartoons,
comic book characters, or television series.
All Trading cards worldwide conform to a standard size of 2.5" X 3.5". In the old days you had to collect and swap to make up complete sets. These days the sets are offered complete. BUT...to keep that flair of collectable interest, several bonus (or chase) or special cards are produced. These are randomly inserted into some sets or packs, hence as they are harder to get and often very limited they cost more and their value increases over the years.
CMA (River Wye) started the ball rolling in 1997 with the very first Laurel and Hardy set in a Premium collectable format , featuring those Crippled Cars,Vicious Villains, Devastating Damsels, and Distracting Dames plus coverage of Personal Tours, Candids and Behind-the-scenes with reverse of cards featuring a selection of Rare Foreign and English language Art Posters. It was a black& white set with photo images and full colour art with all cards foil stamp titled.
This was followed by their second set called 'THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION' in the year 2000. We then produced the very popular 'LOBBY CARD COLLECTION', followed by the CANDID COLLECTION. Our latest most recent release was the POSTER ARTWORK COLLECTION.
We recently acquired ALL the remaining (very limited) stock of both CMA SETS along with rare bonus cards. So we are please to offer (at this point in time) FIVE different sets of Laurel and Hardy Trading Cards.
SET ONE THE PREMIER COLLECTION
THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION (SET TWO CMA) THE LOBBY CARD COLLECTION
THE CANDID COLLECTION THE POSTER ARTWORK COLLECTION