Show us a “ only one that’s known of” card
 

Does anyone have any “cards” or such, that maybe “the only one know?”
For example a fellow collector has a full 1960 Bazooka box with Clemente… and we are pretty sure or it’s highly unlikely another one exist.
I had at one time a 1960 Rawlings Advisory staff photo of Brooks Robinson Standing that fellow Brooks collectors have never seen that example. That could be 1/1.
Just curious what rarities are out there especially with player collectors.

I'll start
 

1959 Bazooka Banks - Autographed
1962 Clemente Jell-O box
1968 Clemente Topps DIsc

Nice stuff Howard! I can think of two more items in your collection that are definitely one of a kind !

Brooks one of a kind
 

Here are a few:

68 clemente disc and 67 clemente disc are identical
Therefore no way to tell the difference so def I nicely not 1 of a kind

68 clemente disc and 67 clemente disc are identical
Therefore no way to tell the difference so def I nicely not 1 of a kind

Only 1

I have no doubt that of course more were printed but I have never seen or heard of another of these still in existence, the album for the 1951 Hirsch Clothing and eight of the photos in the set, the small glossy card version of the Wilson Advisory Ernie Banks, and a 1963 Topps Philadelphia Phillies team card print error partially missing the border line. The 1963 Phillies team card is part of a recurring print flaw that affects all ten cards on the right edge of the uncut sheet. If I can think of others I have I will post them.

Hirsch...nice..I guess not for sale?

Good stuff guys ! I am recovering from a minor surgery. When I feel better I will post a few items!

Always hard to say with some stuff. As far as I know, I think it’s 1-of-1, but there’s a chance that there are more.

Here’s one - Alaga Syrup Mays postcard

Of course, as soon as I post one, the odds are good that someone else here will post their copy.

1955 Mays Exhibit with Mutoscope back.

Larry, show your 1 of 1's 1966 and 1967 Pro's Pizza box lids :).

1962 Jello Mays complete box in black cherry. A few days ago we saw a raw copy in butterscotch pudding flavor.

Mays 1962 Post Canadian inserts complete panel. From what I understand, these were only available in boxes of sugar crisp cereal.

Mays 65 Bazooka complete box.

There may be a couple more 1954 Briggs Meats 2-card panels with Mickey Vernon and Eddie Yost out there, but they won't be signed by each player:

There may be other 1957 Topps salesman's samples with this 3-player combination out there, but I've never seen another during my 35+ years of collecting:

Pros pizza I doubt are 1 of 1s
I have to take pictures
These could be 1 of 1s though
J.c.martin,Juan Pizarro, early Wynn, joe nuxhall

I missed the 1951 Hirsch Clothing Phil Cavarretta from the first post. The Ron Santo promo pin for the 1969 Cubs Iron Ons and the 1969 Jim Hickman Cubs Iron Ons are the only ones I have seen but there are undoubtedly more out there. I have never seen another 1974 Topps Dusty Baker print error, a few others were definitely printed but who knows if any others still exist.

Only ones I have seen of either of these, promo card (front and back) for the 1974 Wichita Aeros set and a Gene Hiser from the same set missing the photo.

There should be more of these, but I’ve never found another single or the strip from which it was cut.
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One of one?
 

1965 Box Topper with Mantle, Koufax and Boyer

69 Mets Clinic
 

A couple months later WS Champions

1962 Mays Canadian Panel and Mays Bazooka Box
 

Wow. This two are amazing. I need both for Brooks. Always looking.

They're definitely tough!

At the same time, obviously more than 1 was produced, so more could be found at any time. Along those lines, I have some that are 1 of 2, which are just as cool in my book, like the Mays 1959 Bazooka Complete Box, or the Mays 1963 Jell-O Complete Box.

This is the only one in known existence, a 1967 sealed Kabaya Leaf pack with Sadaharu Oh on back, graded a PSA 8.

As a matter of fact, here are the only 4 packs ever graded by PSA.

Please enjoy.

'64 Topps Transparency
 

Well, not really a card, but it helped make the card...

1964 Topps Standup transparency

Perhaps this is pushing it a bit since it is more or less of a technicality, but this version of the 1967 Topps #252 Bob Bolin 'White Streak' Variation is the only one I have ever seen, and significantly different than the standard 'white streak' card*...

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*Ignore the fact that they goofily label it 'white streak between name' (singular) and not 'white streak between names' or 'white streak between first and last name.' :rolleyes:

While there are loads of Japanese baseball cards I've come across that may be "only one known", especially if they are not catalogued in the guide, here's one you may find interesting. Calbee put out special prize cards ("Homerun cards") in their sets, which were basically re-issuing the same card fronts with a prize back. In theory, every card may have a prize version, but I'm not sure if that's indeed the case, nor am I sure how many duplicates they issued (I have not seen very many).

To that end, here is one of the more famous Calbee cards, albeit in the rare prize edition. I'm not sure if another prize card version of this weird card exists.
This card is from 1977, featuring Sadaharu Oh and for some reason he's posing with "The Destroyer", an American wrestler who spent much of the 70s in Japan.
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actually.....
 

1) There is a very slight cropping difference between the 2

and

2) The Clemente was cut from an uncut sheet I owned containing a complete set of the 1968 discs - which in part has a different player selection than the 67's

So I am 100% certain it is a '68. None of the other Clemetne discs I have examined match up. Possibly another out there, but as of now 1 of 1.

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/item-809493/

The 1951 Hirsch Clothing Frank Frisch can be crossed off the list, there's another one out there.

So does that mean the 1968 Topps Disc Ron Santo that you cut off of the same sheet that I bought from you is also a 1 of 1? :)

What makes the Dusty Baker card special ? Thanks Scott

1964 stamp Zimmer color transparency

Louisville slugger poster
With Reggie Jackson 1969

It's missing much of the final stage of the printing process, the black ink in the border lines. It was a printing flaw that also affected the card to its left, Sandy Alomar. There are a handful of the Alomar cards known but that is the only Baker I have ever seen. The card to the right of Baker, Cookie Rojas, is almost certainly also affected but I haven't found one yet.

A fairly unique Maury Wills :). This was listed in the 2011 Standard Catalog as a Topps prototype with 4 other "pairs" of players also listed. Reggie Jackson and Jr Richard were listed together. Also, a few, last 8 of these 81 Topps/Coke cards may be unique

Have a small batch of these, probably proofs of some kind, since the original batch had numbers over 150. Lots of reversed negatives and coarser printing too.
Got them in around 1980 and haven't seen any others.
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Clemente discs
 

Gonna have to show me the cropping difference

Look thru the “O “ in the name Bob… I see a difference. Howard’s example is a 68 because I saw the whole sheet it was cut from ( with different players then 67)
Scott

Also the second 'E' in Clemente.

Mike

I know his is cut off the sheet
Cropping is meaningless
68 only difference mantle Brooks cepeda aaron
All others that appear in both sets are the same
If you sent both clementes in raw at the same time
Psa would label them both the same

As Mike pointed out.....
 

Easiest to see by the last "E" in Clemente - the 2 bottom arms of the "E" on the 68 go right to the edge of his jersey, the 67 you can see the white of his jersey past the 2 bottom arms of the "E".

PSA is certainly no expert when it comes to these, so what they would or wouldn't do is meaningless (though they did correctly label mine as a '68)- you asked to be shown the difference - you've been shown the difference :cool:

In my experience, yes
 

The only 68's I have seen more than 1 of are Rose (2) and Mantle (3). They are unquestionably more difficult than the 67's. There are some board members and collectors that have been around longer than I though that may have seen others.

Given that I have seen the 2 Roses (owned them both at different times) and 3 Mantles (I owned 2 of them at different times), it suggests the likelihood of others out there. Aside from Rose and Mantle, the ones that came off that sheet were the only examples of each I have seen.

discs
 

players like santo torre yaz are the same in both sets unless theres a millimeter difference...
aaron cepeda mantle and brooks are really the only different issues
if we collect minor cropping differences then every topps set from 52 up has 5000 cards in them

Other than proofs in my pc, these are my contribution.
I’m sure there are others out there, but I haven’t seen them.

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Mick has at least 4 other only known examples that I wish I had :)

Most Topps cards do not use several differently cropped images as a variation; there are some from certain sheet layouts like the 58 Bunning, but that's not a normal print defect that can happen. A different cropping of the image is a different design of the card. That it is small does not make it meaningless or non-existent.

As importantly....
 

The discs were clearly issued 2 separate years- that is not in question. So the question is how to differentiate the players that were in both sets and used the same/very similar images. I didn't carefully compare all of them. I did so with the Clemente. There is a cropping difference that makes it easy to differentiate the 1967 disc from the 1968 disc.

Not sure where you are going with the idea of regular Topps cards from a single year having potentially different cropping variations nor how that is relevant to the discussion about the discs?

Cool topic. Here's a contribution to the pile of "one knowns" being shared here... Of the 19 currently known signed 1952 Topps Mantles, this is the only one with a "playing days" autograph. Signed on Friday March 29, 1968, at Payne Field in Sarasota FL, before a Spring Training game with the White Sox. Though we'll never know what could be lurking in someone's attic or basement out there, it tickles my imagination to consider the possibility that, based on the 19 that have surfaced, this could be the first '52T card that Mick signed :)

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Wow I had no idea that there is only 19 Mantle rookies autographed… I thought the number would be much higher!
Very cool one of a kind piece !

Thanks. Yes, 19 signed 1952 Topps and 29 signed 1951 Bowmans— though it is worth noting that the overwhelming majority of those signed '51 Bowmans have rather serious eye appeal issues. Either the card is extremely OC, blurry, or beat up, or the auto can be faded. So the effective pop on the signed '51 Bowman in terms of pretty examples is closer to that of the 1952 Topps.

...Read the post I quoted above the reply and it will all start to make sense what is being said and by who...

Howard, I posted about the differences awhile back on my blog, you're even name-checked! https://www.thetoppsarchives.com/202...nt-eleven.html

Awesome post Dave!
 

Thanks for sharing it!

I'm begging the OP, for the love of God, please edit the title of your thread. That floating space and the bad grammar is breaking my frickin' brain!! :eek:

Change:
Show us a “ only one know of” card

To:
Show us an “only one that's known of” card
(Which I'm quite certain also suffers grammatically, but is infinitely better.)

English grammar is a weak point for me… my wife is an English teacher. She cringes with my writing !

Perhaps a long shot here but I got this photo in a collection of “Advisory Staff” 8x10’s that i have stashed away and always thought it was a “standing” version of Brooks but it does not include the typical inset Rawlings logo BUT it has the same image as his color Rawlings premium and prominently features his glove.

Thoughts?

Brooks B/W Staff Advisory
 

I have that same black and white Brooks photo. PSA would not grade. I am not sure why.

Brooks 1967 and 1968 Discs
 

Not one of a kind but thought to share. Rarely seen.

Charlie,

Doesn't your Brooks Rawlings photo example have the white box below with the Rawlings Advisory Staff notation and the Rawlings info.?

I dislike you very much today for posting the '68 :D

Go to your original post, hit the Edit button, and then hit Go Advanced and VOILA!! you can correct the thread title in no time flat.

BW Brooks Photo
 

Scott, I had to go look. No Rawlings Staff Advisory box at bottom. I tried to grade but they said no. Might be a BW copy.

This is the only version of this card with these printing anomalies I have ever seen. The team photograph is printed on the non gloss side of the card stock and the back of the card is printed on the glossy side of the card stock. There is also a wet transfer of the back of the card on the front of the card.

quitcrab---might be fun to change the title of the thread to "Post your favorite common card" to see what happens then

This is probably the 1 and only Presentation Board for the 1980 Topps Coins

Cool piece of Topps history! Never seen the coin board before.

Still have not seen another 63 Fleer such as this card.

1963 Fleer Brooks
 

Can you explain the green front? Keep me in mind if you sell. Very cool.

I would guess it’s part of the wet sheet transfer since the green ‘BROOKS ROBINSON’ and ‘MAJOR LEAGUE RECORD’ are visible on the front too.

Looks like the front and back was printed on one side. Pretty cool

Here is one from Cuba during the 53 - 54 season of Dick Sisler when he played for Havana, I never seen another one intact with stamp from that season I purchased this at Collingswood Flea Market in NJ in the late 1990’s

Pretty sure this is the only 1949 S&K card that Lefty ever signed:

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Never seen another of these either:

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1982 Hank Aaron from Korea:

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No more of these either:

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An Israeli Cassius Clay ca. 1970:

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1951 Ringside salesman sample with Rocky Marciano RC on it:

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and the flip side:

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Some Great stuff Exihibitman !

Cleveland Indians Baseball Jeans
 

Late 1950s Cleveland Indians Baseball Jeans PC of Rocky Colavito. Presumably given away at in-store events to promote sale of these team-affiliated blue jeans with patch and team belt. The belts show up every so often on eBay, but cards are scarce. A product of Kits Mfg Co

Adam, I never grow tired of seeing your signed S&K O'Doul. But a complete signed set was recently sold on ebay, so I don't think yours is 1 of 1 any longer (though the scans on ebay are blurry and it's hard to see what really was signed).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/37518465451...Bk9SR_aPpaqmYw

Here's a 1940 Play Ball printed with color.