Clo Ply Foto Fun
 

Can someone inform me as to when these were produced? The big book list 1938 (2009 version) but many list them as 1937 on ebay etc. thanks

They are quite scarce but any time that I have seen them, they have been identified as a 1938 issue. That may be because most people follow the SCBC set dates.

the R329's come with different variations to the frame info on back....

here is my info on them..... were issued ca.1938 by a Cincinnati plastics company named Clopay, who were more well known as makers of cheap window blinds.
There are at least 2 different backs known, the more common one has a Dayton St. address, the other issued later listed Clopay Sq. as the address and originally has an ad for a shoe company on the tear away section

examples
 

Examples...

http://luckeycards.com/phuncclopayunopened.jpg

Anyone w/a negative ever buy any photo paper and follow the instructions to make "new" prints of these cards?

I did about 5 years ago
 

I had acquirred several negatives with no "cards" so I had a professional photographer print the cards for me. Amazing that 80 years later that was still possible.

A couple, but not pretty:

Recent prints were made from the 1931 Sun foto cards but not the clo-pays, I always thought these were 1939. Dan

I believe that the Foto-Fun paper used was for the somewhat archaic cyanotype photo process. I doubt one could find paper that would be used to create these images from the negative that would look anything like the ones processed back in the late 1930's. Obviously if onehad a negative they could use those to make a modern print from the negative but it wouldn't have the blue tint or anything.

-Rhett

here is one that is not blue...

I believe its original to the Era, but may not be the original photo paper that came with the set.

even if you could make "new" ones, the frame is the tough part to find, so you really cant make new "cards" but you could switch out the players within the frame.

It a Augie Galan, the last card added to the checklist (2007)

also shown the other type of back (different from Leon's) with a #7 in directions and a different (older) company address
http://centuryoldcards.com/images/1938fotofungalan.jpg