1928 Yuenglings Ice Cream Card set
 

First off, I'm a new kid on the block and bumped into this site. But I'm looking for any info regarding the type of set listed above. Last year my wife came across a Ty Cobb from this set and I was wondering about the possibility of actually completing this set. Any history lessons about this set would be appreciated also.

I just purchased a Hornsby card from the set.

Depending on your funding and how specific you are about condtion, it could become expensive to complete the set...there is a Ruth in addition to the Cobb card and those are fairly pricy.

You should also know that there were several ice cream companies that used the same photos for their 1928 sets. Harrington's for example.

For greater detail about this and other sets, you may want to purchase The Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards (available on Amazon among many other sources.)

Good luck

Thank you

One of our members, Bob Lemke, writes an interesting blog about vintage cards.
The following are his blogs that discuss the Harrington/Yuengling/Tharps/etc cards:

http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2009/09...00-common.html

http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2009/09...30-tharps.html

The first blog above explains why you won't be completing the set anytime soon.

- Dave

Wow! that was an awesome read! I appreciate you sending me the articles

I live 45 minutes from Yuengling's Pottsville, Pa., headquarters, so I have always been interested in the set. PSA has never even graded an Earl Smith Yuengling's card. The Smith rarity aside, a low-grade Yuengling's set can eventually be put together without breaking the bank too much. Completing the set may take a while, though. A complete set with an Earl Smith Harrington's Ice Cream card substituted sold for $10K at REA in 2012.

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2012/420.html

Aside from Earl Smith, the big cost factor with the Yuengling's set is the Babe Ruth card. Like most Ruth career era cards, the price has jumped significantly in recent years. A Babe Ruth PSA 2 went for $2,384 at Goodwin earlier this year. The problem with the Ruth card in the Yuengling set is that the Babe card could be exchanged for a quart of ice cream or a $5 scooter.

http://www.goodwinandco.com/LotDetai...entoryid=27309

Lou Gehrig and Ty Cobb are also somewhat expensive in the Yuengling's set, but not nearly as expensive as the Ruth card. If you keep your eye out at various auctions, large lots of Yuengling's do show up from time to time. Low grade/raw commons can also be scooped up for next to nothing (under $50 at times) when they appear at auction.

Anthony, I saw your post on the main board asking the background of the Yuengling's set. Yuengling is the oldest brewery in America, and produced ice cream (along with non-alcoholic beer) during prohibition. The cards were used to market the ice cream during the ban on beer. Yuengling continued to produce ice cream well into the 1980s. The company has just recently returned to selling ice cream under its label, although it is manufactured by a local creamery.

http://www.yuenglingsicecream.com/

http://consumerist.com/2014/01/22/ye...-a-boozy-buzz/

http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Be.../#.U9q3CzKGn2s

I actually have the Cobb card, I tried to look up a value in the Beckett price guide, but I can't seem to find it

Not sure what condition your Cobb card is in, but several have gone to auction in the past year or two in the "good" to "very good" range. Prices are typically in the $500-800 range for Cobb Yuengling cards in that condition. There was a "very-good-excellent" Cobb Yuengling that sold at REA for $823 in 2009, so I am sure that is worth more by now.

If you Google "Ty Cobb Yuengling", a bunch of previous auctions will pop up. :)

I didn't look at SGC's pop totals, but PSA doesn't show anything higher than a "4" for Cobb in the Yuengling set.

Thanks for the heads up

I started a thread looking for some info on Yuenglings cards last year after I scored a group of 60 or so from the set, and got some helpful info at the time. Here's a link to that post:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=176575