Quote from: Westmarcher on 14 April 2015, 08:29:44 PM
Brilliant find T13! Some absolute crackers there! Didn't remember just how graphic the images were in that series.  

Interesting. Didn't realise they were that early (was thinking of the 1996 'Mars Attacks!' movie). Being marginally before my time is about right. I was 8 in 1962 and don't remember encountering bubble cards until I was a little older. 

I was also 8 in 1962, and was just encountering them!

Mollinary

I was 9 in '62.

Have to admit, I thought I'd collected the whole set......as near as.....But looking through the thumbnails, there were only a couple out of the 20 or so I looked at, that looked really familiar.

They were rather gory !

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 14 April 2015, 08:47:23 PM

They were rather gory !

Aspirational then?

Quote from: Techno on 14 April 2015, 08:47:23 PM
I was 9 in '62.

Have to admit, I thought I'd collected the whole set......as near as.....But looking through the thumbnails, there were only a couple out of the 20 or so I looked at, that looked really familiar.

They were rather gory !

Cheers - Phil

I still remember that the last one I got was the First Battle of Bull Run card!  Why? Beats me! 

Mollinary

The one that I really recognised was the chap impaled on the spiky 'fence'.
What were those barricades called ?

Cheers - Phil

Chevaux de friese? Abatis? Spanish riders? Palisade?

Googling images of the above......

Chevaux de friese appears to be the one I was after......Or are the terms, in any way, 'interchangeable' ?
Thanks, Kitty.
Cheers - Phil

I suspect they shared an office and borrowed each other's socks quite often, at least.

Quote from: Techno on 15 April 2015, 07:24:43 AM
Googling images of the above......

Chevaux de friese appears to be the one I was after......Or are the terms, in any way, 'interchangeable' ?
Thanks, Kitty.
Cheers - Phil

Chevaux de Frise is the correct spelling.

Sorry to go all "FK" on everyone.

PD do them.

Here:

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/OT19-p5520/

Quote from: T13A on 14 April 2015, 08:04:08 PM
Sorry for hijacking this thread but re. ACW cards check this out:

http://www.oldbubblegumcards.com/1960s/Civil-War-News/index.html

Oh memories....

Cheers Paul

Wow! Thanks for that Paul, that brought some memories flooding back. I use to buy one every day on the way to school.

I was trying to remember the cost. Had to be less than 6d because I remember a Timpo indian or cowboy from the paper shop was a few days school money. They were at the time 6d for a foot figure and 1s3d for a mounted. Its strange what sticks in the memory! When I was looking through those ACW cards on your link I could smell the chewing gum as you opened the packet. 

They influenced me to buy Britains ACW figures and play soldiers, so they cannot have been all bad. 

Cheers, Rob

Rob

Did we go to the same school? 

Mine had a toy shop 2 doors down from the school entrance (the sweet shop selling the bubble gum cards was next to it) selling lots of different toy soldiers, including the Timpo ones you mentioned. Between the toy shop and a dad and uncle who both served in the war I never had a chance wargamming wise!

Cheers Paul

I had pretty near the whole set of the ACW cards, they were brilliant!! They were super gory for primary school kids, all my mates collected and swapped them.

Quote from: T13A on 15 April 2015, 01:49:51 PM
Rob

Did we go to the same school? 

Mine had a toy shop 2 doors down from the school entrance (the sweet shop selling the bubble gum cards was next to it) selling lots of different toy soldiers, including the Timpo ones you mentioned. Between the toy shop and a dad and uncle who both served in the war I never had a chance wargamming wise!

Cheers Paul

Sounds like it  . The Timpo stuff was pretty rubbish, I tried to get Britains Swappets when I could  http://www.collectors-club-of-great-britain.co.uk/Features/Britains-Herald-Swoppets-Price-Guide/_ft1781