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10-18-2006, 06:55 PM
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>When your mother dragged you to the drug store, there was the weighing machine - where for a penny, you got your weight, fortune and a picture. Sometimes if you were lucky you would get a warship, plane, or sports celebrity. If not, a movie star, or worse.<br /><br />Where are these cards? Were none of them DiMaggio, Reiser, etc.? They were quite small. About an inch by 2.
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10-18-2006, 07:13 PM
Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>They are in the ACC (American Card Catalog) listed as "UW". But I dont think there are any baseball related ones.<br /><br />This is what is in the ACC.<br /><br /><br />Weighing Machine Cards<br /><br />UW-1 Astology Cards<br /><br />UW-2 Chicago World's Fair Cards<br /><br />UW-3 Fortune Cards<br /><br />UW-4 Movie Stars (several series blue, green, sepia, and colors. In Canada by Rhodes Mfg. Co.<br /><br />UW-5 Washington DC Views
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10-18-2006, 07:16 PM
Posted By: <b>David Smith</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1161134163.JPG"> <br />On the back of the cards it says, "Peerless Vendo Company". Three cards have "J. J. Newberry Co." while the other 37 cards have "Engrav-O-Tint" on them.
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10-18-2006, 07:20 PM
Posted By: <b>bill</b><p>the closest I can get to sports related<br />gene autry - owned the angels<br />dinah shore - had a golf tourney<br />james stewart I think he was in that one armed pitcher movie<br />sonja henie pro skater<br /><br />bill
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10-18-2006, 07:39 PM
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>Yes, I see that (now) Frank. UW3, but no breakdown of the cards into narrower types.<br /><br />David: those cards are way more atrtractive than what I remember. My recollection is lower grade and black & white.<br /><br />I am pretty sure that I think that I remember military and sports pictures. But really, I don't even remember whether I have amnesia.<br /><br />
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10-19-2006, 07:20 AM
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>GIL<br /><br />These mini BB cards were dispensed from vending machines in perforated strips. They<br /> measure only 7/8" x 5/8".<br />This is just a small sample; there are 120 cards in this set which features Ruth, Cobb,<br /> Dean, Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Gomez, Greenberg, Matty, O'Doul, Jackie Robinson, Sisler,<br /> and Ted Williams.....and many more players from the first half of the 20th Century..<br /><br />Are these the cards you are alluding to ?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.freephotoserver.com/v001/tedzan/aar423.jpg">
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10-19-2006, 08:22 AM
Posted By: <b>Steve M.</b><p>I think Monte Stratton was a one "legged" pitcher. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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10-19-2006, 08:50 AM
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Bill<br /><br />The Monte Stratton Story is a true life movie that I recommend every BB fan should see.<br />Stratton was a very effective pitcher for the White Sox in the mid-'30s. Then he had a <br />hunting accident and his lower leg was amputated. He tried to comeback after the accident<br /> and did pitch in the Minors. In the early '40s was the pitching coach for Jimmy Dykes' WSox.<br /><br />Rent this Movie, it is Jimmy Stewart at his best, and there are a lot of Major Lge. players<br /> in it, including HOFers Bill Dickey and Luke Appling.<br /><br />Ted Z
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10-19-2006, 08:58 AM
Posted By: <b>John Spencer</b><p>I think the one armed ball player was outfielder Pete Grey. When he caught a flyball, he would tuck his glove under the shoulder of his missing arm, pull the ball out with his good arm and throw. Of course, I may have dreamed it. I have been rereading a lot of Stephen King lately.
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10-19-2006, 11:04 AM
Posted By: <b>bill</b><p>I have some of those colored one<br />but you must be thinking of these<br /><br /><img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i253/hsacmron/arcadecards.jpg">
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10-19-2006, 07:26 PM
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>Yes Bill & Ted. Both of those look like what I recall - or a variation of them. And yes, I believe that you had to rip them off, so they were perforated. Although I don't remember being able to pull out extras. Maybe I didn't try. It was a different time then.
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10-20-2006, 01:10 PM
Posted By: <b>Butch & Co.</b><p>Ted! Ted! Hey Ted! <br />Thanks for posting a pic of that set. <br />Never seen those before, and now we just <i>have to</i> find out more about 'em. <br />They appear to constitute a simple "draw" card game, which is right up our alley. <br />Do you have the name of the manufacturer of that set, a year of production, <br />any other details? We're assuming the backs are blank. <br />Any additional information would be hugely appreciated. <br />-- Butch & Co. <br />