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Alex Raisbeck
1902 · W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series · #24
Raisbeck’s #24 in the 1902 Wills Football Series identity recorded by PSA.
- Sport
- Soccer
- Year / season
- 1902
- Set
- W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series
- Number
- #24
- Format
- Card
About this card
Alex Raisbeck’s 1902 W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series card is number 24 in that release. This is an early tobacco card. Cards like it were packed with cigarettes, partly to stiffen the pack and partly to advertise the brand, and collectors assembled the series by hand.
It carries no rookie label. That is not a claim either way: the catalog adds the label only when a cited source supports it.
How to identify it
Cards this old vary in size, trimming and paper toning, and some have been reproduced. Compare the back printing, the card stock and the exact dimensions with a trusted example before relying on the front alone.
In Alex Raisbeck’s run
This is the only Alex Raisbeck entry in the catalog so far.
In the 1902 checklist
The catalog’s selected checklist for the 1902 W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series release also includes S. Bloomer and L. Bell. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.
- S. Bloomer, 1902 W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series #9
- L. Bell, 1902 W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series #17
What to know about this issue
- The primary registry entry gives the printed subject name A.G. Raisbeck and number 24.
- The unqualified issue identity does not infer a cigarette-brand or back-printing variant from a front-only scan.
Inspect the source
Source reviewed 2026-10-08. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.
No assigned grade, market value or verified offer is supplied by this reference entry.
Read the soccer collecting guide
The front prints Football Series No. 24 and A. G. Raisbeck, Liverpool. PSA’s registry and a Fanatics Collect reference corroborate the issue. The auction’s Wild Woodbine specimen does not establish this scan’s back; no Wild Woodbine, Cinderella, printing variant, authentication, reprint, or condition claim is made.
Alex Raisbeck Wills Football Series scan, via Wikimedia Commons (Fma12). UK anonymous-work and US expired-copyright notices.
Public domain in the United Kingdom and the United States, per file notices · Original source (opens in a new tab) · Image credits
Raw or graded. Inspect the actual copy.
The issue stays 1902 · W.D. & H.O. Wills Football Series. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.
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- Ungraded does not establish authenticity or mean “never authenticated.” A protective case alone does not establish a professional condition grade.
Professionally graded
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