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Thank for the responses ! Ted I have one that is a bit smaller and have two that smell like gum. Idk if anyone else has noticed but I think the commons went up in price. I was buying commons from 7 to 12 each a year ago. I just started to pick up some and they all seem to be 20 or more. That wrapper is awesome! What are these etched wonder photos ?
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Dustin --
Here are a couple of articles from the 1970s that I posted here, written by people who collected baseball cards as a kid in the 1930s. The first one is specifically about 1933 Goudey, but the second one does mention R327 (Diamond Stars), and both of them will give you an idea of what collecting was like back then. The cards were all sold in penny packs of gum and aimed at kids. http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219310 http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219683 |
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3) being in the depression era did who was buying theses cards?
If you look back at the Depression, it wasn't simply a crash and a recovery. By 1933, when the Goudeys came out, the economy was looking better. But it dipped again in 1937, and there are barely any cards in 1937 and 1938. But there was a revival in cards in 1939, just as the economy was getting rolling again. 5) why didn’t they make the 240 of theses card that it says on the back? If you do a Google search, it's not too difficult to find images of a later series of Diamond Stars that was never released. Just type in "1937 Diamond Stars." It appears National Chicle had plans for a bigger set. |
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think they are terrific
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Thanks for the for the articles David. Chris I just googled to see what the inflation on 1 cent would be and it’s 19 cents in 2018. I guess a penny wasn’t what I thought I was back then. I have seen the 1937 diamond star reprints . I also seen the uncut sheet. They look different from the rest of the set. I wonder what this set would have been if they kept on making them.
Did the packs look the same every year?
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Here is a gallery of all the known gum baseball card wrappers from the 1930s through 1950s. Diamond Stars wrappers are near the middle under "National Chicle". They had a variety of different wrappers, but it looks like the differences don't correspond to different years.
http://www.oldcardboard.com/r/r-wrappers.asp |
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These cards are a great alternative to the much higher Goudeys......
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I, too, am curious. Does anybody know?
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My favorite is Urbanski with steel mills in the background.
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The best looking Diamond Star and my favorite, of course.
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Val,
I never knew you were a Cleveland Indians fan! Why didn't you go to Strongsville? |
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I'm getting too old to drive to Strongsville, especially since I'll be driving to Ohio in June to attend a wedding and to Cleveland at the end of July to attend the National.
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Between Tattoo Orbits, Diamond Stars, Delongs, and Goudey's the mid-30's were awesome for card collectors.
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We know them as R311's. They were given to retailers along with the regular cards and handed to the redeemer of 15 wrappers/coupons... Not my piece but I had saved this image some time ago.
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They don’t look Etched. All the R311 say 1936 but I thought the wrappers were from 1934 to 1936. Did they only give the premiums out in 1936?
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The R311’s are a multi year issue that paralleled the Diamond Stars cards. As you can see above the envelope is dated 1935. They added new premiums over the years and the later added premiums are harder to find and likely correspond to the high numbers and the 1936 issues. About half the R311 set is really easy to find while the others are hard.
Later wrappers dropped the “etched” title and even included checklists of the available players. Not sure what they did in 1934 as nearly all the teams are dated 1935 or so but perhaps they had just single players that year. There is also the leather versions of R311 as well but the teams are also dated later so not sure in 1934.
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