Editing Trading card (section)

=== Australian rules football ===
{{Main|Australian rules football card}}
[[File:James_Sinclair_Dickson,_Port_Adelaide,_1906.jpg|thumb|150px|A 1906 Dungey Ralph Sweet Nell [[cigarette card]] featuring {{AFL PA}} player [[Sinclair Dickson]].]]
Australian rules football cards are almost exclusively found in Australia as no top-level leagues are present outside the country. The first Australian rules football cards were produced in conjunction with [[Goodwin & Company|Goodwin & Co's Old Judge Cigarettes]] in the late 1880s.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Is this football's oldest footy card? - carltonfc.com.au|work=carltonfc.com.au|url=http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2012-04-12/is-this-footballs-oldest-footy-card|access-date=2018-03-28}}</ref> In the set were Australian celebrities which included Australian rules footballers from Victoria and South Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Green|first=Damien|date=28 March 2018|title=Goodwin & Co (Old Judge Cigarettes) Celebrity Series|url=http://aussierulescollectables.com.au/sets-items/113|website=aussierulescollectables.com.au}}</ref> Other companies that issued earlier football cards were [[W.D. & H.O. Wills]] in 1905,<ref name="sparta">[https://spartacus-educational.com/Fcigarette.htm The History of Football Cigarette Cards] by John Simkin, on Spartacus Educational, September 1997</ref> and [[Sniders & Abrahams]] (featuring scenes of matches in 1908 and then releasing other sets with portraits of football players in the 1910s, all in full color). In the 1930s, the Australian division of British [[Godfrey Phillips India|Godfrey Phillips Co.]] released a set of football cards. By the same time, Hoadleys, a local [[confectionery]] company, released a set of illustrated cards. Another confectionery company, Clarke-Ellis, also released its own set of cards.<ref name="austrcards">{{Cite web|url=http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dgreen2/1931-1940.htm|title=Austrlian Rules Footy Cards 1931 to 1940|website=members.optusnet.com.au}}{{Dead link|date=February 2025}}</ref> Other companies that launched cards sets in the 1930s were Pals Periodical, Plaistowe & Co., Carreras (two illustrated sets in 1933, the first of them with footballers caricatures by Bob Miram), Giant Licorice Cigarettes, [[MacRobertson's]] and [[W.D. & H.O. Wills]], among others.<ref name="austrcards" /> The most popular set of Australian rules football cards are often the considered to be the 1963 [[Scanlens]] card set. Select Australia is currently the longest continuously operating and largest producer of Australian rules football cards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://selectaustralia.com.au/|title=Select Cards|website=Select Australia}}</ref> Prices for Australian rules football cards can be relatively high compared to other sporting codes in Australia. This is illustrated for both vintage and modern cards, such as an 1894 [[American Tobacco Company]] card featuring [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] player [[Bill Crebbin|Will Crebbin]] which sold for $10,110 in 2018 and a 2004 Select AFL Conquest Triple [[Brownlow Medal]]list signature card featuring [[Nathan Buckley]], [[Adam Goodes]] and [[Mark Ricciuto]] which was valued at $3,000 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Milne|first=Rick|title=Rick's Rarity (Round 8): Will Crebbin|publisher=AFL Record|year=2018|location=Melbourne|pages=70}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Randall|first=Michael|date=August 20, 2018|title=Gary Ablett Snr and Jr team up with signature trading card as collecting experiences renaissance|work=Herald Sun|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/news/gary-ablett-snr-and-jr-team-up-with-signature-trading-card-as-collecting-experiences-renaissance/news-story/0a19444ca46e9d6503e7c201e41a1920}}</ref>