Cards featuring pictures of sporting personalities first appeared in Australia during the late 1880s. Printed on cardboard that kept cigarettes safe from being crushed they soon became the focus of collectors. Producers of other products, from breakfast cereal to chewing gum, soon saw the advertising benefits of trading cards.

Mobil produced these colourful portraits to be collected by football supporters at their service stations. This album was produced in 1964 the first year that Central District and Woodville football clubs competed as league teams in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Short biographies of each player are also provided.

The young person who had this volume wrote the names of the players under the photographs (and sometimes added a blacked out tooth to the image itself).

Mobil continued to produce the cards into the 1970s and they remain collectable items.

Full Points Footy website : further information about the players may be found here

Australian Cartophilic Society : excellent information about cigarette trading cards in Australia