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Old 02-03-2012, 02:25 PM
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Default Let's see some 1940-60s Oddball issues...

Hoping some will show their 1940s-60s oddball issues including Carling Beer, Cleveland Sun Picture Camera, and really anything else you would like to show!!!

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Here's a fairly recent pick-up of mine................
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Default '55 spic and spans

Let's keep the Spic and Spans rolling.

'55 die cut Aaron

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'55 die cut Mathews

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My favorite is the Spahn, which I have as my avatar.
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Old 02-04-2012, 10:50 AM
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I love those Spic & Span die-cuts! Here's a 1949 Jimmy Fund die-cut I recently picked up, plus a few other oddball things (a 1952 Knowles Service Station card, a 1959 Yoo Hoo card & a 1964 Rawlings box premium ...
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Let's keep the Spic and Spans rolling.

'55 die cut Aaron

'55 die cut Mathews

My favorite is the Spahn, which I have as my avatar.
Really like those die-cuts. Don't think I've seen them very much. Were they cut from the product box, or more like an insert? Maybe found originally only within a couple hundred miles of Chicago?
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1948-1950 Safe-T-Cards, issued in Washington, DC. The Standard Catalog's description says, "A safety message is at top ..." But, obviously not all of the cards have this.
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Old 02-05-2012, 08:09 AM
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'62 Gold Mine Ice Cream
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'56 Parkhurst
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'47 Morley Studios
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'47 Maxwell Hardware / '59 O'Keefe Montreal Royals
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Here are a few Cleveland Sun Pictures...and a Connie Mack promo...
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1940 Associated Service Stations
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I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.
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I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.
Thanks for the research, Scott. The dry-cleaning thing was something that never occurred to me. I was recalling boxes of Spic and Span powder and thought that was where the cards came from. I wondered about the distribution because they would seem to have been marketed in the Milwaukee area. As a Braves fan from when they were in Boston, I was on the lookout for Braves stuff as a kid in upstate NY, and the only other regional issue I saw was the Johnston Cookie cards, so I wondered if the Spic and Spans had turned up in other parts of the county.
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Default Wisco Gas and Spic and Spans

Another interesting note. My father gave me a set of cards from '53, he thought were Spic and Spans. Upon further research, they are actually Wisco Gas cards. They look identical to the '53 Spic and Spans but they do not have the Spic and Span logo on them. Wisco gas stations were only located in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine. I'm not sure how widespread the Spic and Spans were distributed, but I'm guessing based on scarcity, that the Spic and Spans were in a much narrower distribution range than Johnston Cookies.

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Ok, after looking closer, I now can see the print at the bottom of the cards. "Olson Publishing" and "Spic and Span Dry Cleaning." Now, after all these years, I realize the latter was actually a local business that had nothing to do with the nationally distributed cleaning powder. And it appears that Olson was just putting the names of different companies on the cards, like the dry cleaners and Wisco? Interesting.
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Here's a few more...

Anyone know what this is? '53 Denver Bears Team Issue???
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'59 Yoo Hoo / '48 Gentle's Bread
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"homstyle" bread? WTF is a "hom"?
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Nice cards, a number I have never seen before. Heres a few of mine-




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Glen -

According to Baseball-Reference.com, Robert J. Wakefield did in fact play for the Bears in 1953. Judging by the info on the card's reverse I'd agree that it's probably from a 1953 Denver Bears Team Issue.

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I do know Spic and Spans were also distributed at the dry cleaner's store in my home town, Fond du Lac, 60 miles north of Milwaukee in the mid-late 1950s.
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I do know Spic and Spans were also distributed at the dry cleaner's store in my home town, Fond du Lac, 60 miles north of Milwaukee in the mid-late 1950s.
Thanks Bob - I guess it was just me thinking of the stuff on the store shelves - Spic and Span Powder. Since I never saw the cards as a kid, just assumed that was the product link. Wonder if the dry cleaners ever heard from the national company on the name appropriation.
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Those Signal color sets are among the best ever produced IMHO. Just a fantastic looking issue with superb color at a time when things were still b&w or very muted color for the most part.

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I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.
I can attest to the covers. I saw one in a local collection here in the NW about 15 years ago. The collector knew I liked oddball items and offered it to me for 100.00. I should have bought it but passed. If I reall correctly it was roughly the size and shape of the plasitc bags used by dry cleaners today. It was made of paper and on the front it had blue drawings of all of the players depicted in the set.
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I can attest to the covers. I saw one in a local collection here in the NW about 15 years ago. The collector knew I liked oddball items and offered it to me for 100.00. I should have bought it but passed. If I reall correctly it was roughly the size and shape of the plasitc bags used by dry cleaners today. It was made of paper and on the front it had blue drawings of all of the players depicted in the set.
You're correct. One just sold on the bay for 71 bucks...framed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/spic-and-spa...item19cd5b7dc0
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Considering how long ago I was a Milwaukee Braves fan, and how long I was a collector of Braves' regionals, I had never before seen one of those dry cleaning covers. It was a steal at that price.
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yes it was a steal at 71
i missed that one
btw it comes in 2 variations 18 players and 12
the 18 is for a dress cover long size and the 12 is for a suit cover at least a foot shorter
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