I started to collect them for myself when I was quite young, from approximately 5 years of age through to about 9 years of age. Sadly I don't know what happened to my collection. I used to keep them bundled together in a rubber band, always ready to swap with someone willing who had a card that appealed to me. I particularly loved horse ones and all the gorgeous girls like Sarah Kay and Holly Hobbie etc. How I wish I had kept mine - to be able to hand them over to my daughter would be something special. So today, with so much technology to hand I googled and found a shop that sells them online called "The Lark". They just happen to sell newly created swap cards of an equally gorgeous nature see here. Not willing to stop there I searched EBAY and got a stack and then more recently I found a few gorgeous original Sarah Kay's from an antique shop in Woodford. I also bought a book for Lucy to keep them in, also from The Lark. I just wish that it would become a craze again and the shops would sell them as a collectible. The images are so sweet and innocent. I could see my Lucy, standing at the store counter with her list, eagerly waiting to spend her pocket money on yet more swap cards - or - hang on, was that me I can see????
Oh the sweet memories....
