1934 Ilsa Sweets Sportvocu Set and Checklist

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Pre-War Cards

‘It’s In The Details’

Title	Ilsa Sweets Sportvocu
Year	1934
Size	1 5/8″ x 2 3/8″
Images	Black and White
Type	Candy/Gum
Number in Set	210

1934 Ilsa Sweets Sportvocu Overview

Team USA Hockey 1934 Ilsa Sweets 1934 Ilsa Sweets Paulino Uzcudun Boxing 1934 Ilsa Sweets Bill Tilden Tennis The 1934 Ilsa Sweets set was a multi-sport release covering all sorts of subjects.

From a sports card collector’s standpoint, the most interesting ones are likely the cards featuring hockey, boxing, and tennis. Some of the key issues featured here are Olympic hockey teams, boxers Jack Dempsey and Max Schmeling (among others), and tennis greats Bill Tilden, Fred Perry, and Suzanne Lenglen. American collectors will certainly recognize those names. However, the majority of the athletes are lesser known and, from many countries, will be known to most. The hockey teams as well as the cards of the boxers and tennis players will generally be the most desired by America collectors.

The cards themselves are about as understated as can be imagined. Each one features a black and white picture of an athlete or a team inside of a thick white border. The lone print is on the mostly blank back – a card number and name of the subject.

This was similar to numerous other international multi-sport sets printed in the 1930s.

In addition to the cards, a special collector’s album for this set was available. A checklist was also made available from the manufacturer, imploring collectors to buy their bon bons and to keep the checklist so that they could determine which cards they needed.

1934 Ilsa Sweets Sportvocu Checklist

Note that while I have printed a checklist below, I created this based on an emailed scan of an original checklist from a seller that was difficult to read. Thus, some of the names are likely spelled incorrectly.

Additionally, as this is an international set not written in English, many of the letters/special characters are not in the English alphabet and not typed as such below.