Vintage Football Card Wrappers

Some football card collectors collect the wrappers, too. What I like most about the wrappers is that they describe the features of the cards: "Guess What" quizzes, magic football funnies, krazy pennant inserts, etc. You can see that some of the inserts originally had names different from the ones we use today: what Topps called "cloth emblems" in 1961, for instance, we now call "flocked stickers."

Below are most of the wrappers of football cards issued from 1933 to 1987. Click on any wrapper up to 1976 to see the football cards in that set. A huge thanks to Joe DeAngelis for providing most of the images.

1933 Sport Kings

1935 National Chicle

1948 Bowman

1948 Leaf

1949 Leaf

1950 Bowman

1950 Topps Felt Backs

1951 Berk Ross

1951 Bowman

1951 Topps Magic

1952 Bowman Large

1952 Bowman Small

1953 Bowman

1954 Bowman

1955 Bowman 1 cent

1955 Bowman 5 cent

1955 Topps All-American 1 cent

1955 Topps All-American 5 cent

1956 Topps 1 cent

1956 Topps 5 cent

1957 Topps 1 cent

1957 Topps 5 cent

1958 Topps 1 cent

1958 Topps 5 cent

1959 Topps 1 cent

1959 Topps 5 cent

1960 Fleer

1960 Topps 1 cent

1960 Topps 5 cent

1961 Fleer 1st series

1961 Fleer 2nd series

1961 Nu-Card

1961 Topps 1 cent

1961 Topps 5 cent

1962 Fleer

1962 Topps

1963 Fleer

1963 Topps

1964 Philadelphia 5 cent

1964 Philadelphia 10 cent

1964 Topps 1 cent

1964 Topps 5 cent

1965 Philadelphia

1965 Topps

1966 Philadelphia

1966 Topps

1967 Philadelphia

1967 Topps

1968 Topps

1968 Topps Test Team Patches

1969 Topps

1970 Topps

1970 Topps Super

1971 Kelloggs

1971 Topps

1972 Topps

1973 Topps

1974 Topps

1975 Topps

1976 Topps

1977 Topps

1978 Topps

1979 Topps

1980 Topps

1981 Topps

1982 Topps

1983 Topps

1984 Topps

1985 Topps

1986 Topps

1987 Topps