Weighing Machine Cards - a piece of highly detailed, mixed m...

Hammer

£85

Weighing Machine Cards - a piece of highly detailed, mixed media, original artwork for the cigarette card series of Weighing Machine Cards by Mardon, Son and Hall Ltd, 'Association Footballers', believed to be unproduced, depicting a portrait of Raich Carter (1949). Includes multiple pieces of paperwork containing the details and letters from Raich Carter concerning the use of his photograph for the artwork, in which he refused consent, dated 1949. Mounted on card, measuring approximately 15 x 21 cm. Artist unknown.

Horatio Stratton (Raich) Carter (21 December 1913 - 9 October 1994) was an English sportsman who played football for Sunderland, Derby County and Hull City. He also played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1946, and then became a football manager. In 2013 he was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame.