Net54baseball contest (1) Dec- First correct answer wins
 

So we'll throw this to the board and see who answers first, correctly. You must answer in this thread. There will be NO edits but you can have up to 2 posts, if you edit a post then that post will count as 1 but it will be disqualified. I will respond if I see a winning answer. The winner gets a T shirt but I reserve the right to ship right after Christmas. The Post Office around here is getting overwhelmed. So here is the question.

In 1943 There was this set of stamps and booklet (below) put out. For all the money (which is 0) and a T shirt, how much or what, did you have to send in, and what COULDN'T you send in, to get the complete set of Stamps and Album? Only 2 guesses per person, so no one gets any crazy ideas. :).

ps...edited title as I guess this was not easy or immediate.



Sizes and colors of shirts left (but may change at anytime)

Gold- (1) large
Gray- (2) 3XL
Green- (5) XL (3) 2XL
Blue- (1) large (3) XL (1) 2XL

Cost guess: 35 cents
Couldn't send: going out on a limb but I'm guessing you couldn't redeem anything for the stamps.

no postage stamps could be sent in for the stamps...and you had to send in .50 cents.

no correct full answer yet...

Cost was $0.35 and no postage stamps could be sent in for the stamps and album.

Dave beat me to it.

-Nick

not everything yet....

Cost was $0.35 and no postage stamps could be sent in for the stamps and album and a SASE was to be included for delivery

Cost was 35 cents and no pennies could be sent in for the stamps and album.

not yet guys..... btw, I will show where I got the answer when someone guesses everything exactly and correctly. I don't care what order but at least the right answers. I don't think it's as easy as some thought.....I might give a clue a bit later if no one gets it.

Cost $.75...no postage stamps could be redeemed...and you had to be from the bronx?

Cost was 35 cents and no pennies could be sent in for the stamps and album.

Not quite.... Manhattan. J/k

Did you see the part about no edits? This wasn't correct but if it was, then according to the rule in the first post, it would have been disqualified. Nothing personal. :)

Thirty five cents plus eight cents for postage and handling.

And to be more complete, the eight cents would have only been six cents for an order .25 and under. And...."Currency sent at your own risk we cannot be responsible for money lost in the mails" "Checks and money orders payable to poster stamp publishing Co. "

Steve B

You guys are getting closer.

3 cents

I got that from the original ad. Link after the contest ends.

Steve B

Thirty five cents plus eight cents for postage and handling and no pennies could be sent in.

Who said I got my information from an ad?

Comparing will be interesting. Maybe they changed requirements somewhere along the way, or had requirements that were more strict outside of the poster stamp hobby.

35 Cents along with 8 cents or SASE. NO stamps should be sent for redemption.

Still no exactly correct answer. And it's not that someone is spelling something incorrectly or anything too crazy.

All of the above and a pair of nylons without runs.:eek::eek::eek:

35 cents postage paid to anywhere is the US. You couldn't send coins. Must send check or money order.

35 cents and you couldn't send in any copper pennies.

2nd guess: 35 cents and no steel pennies.

35 cents plus 8 cents postage and handling. Could not send postal stamps.

The company, Major Leaguers, put out a small order form in 1943/44. On one side it has how to order your Major League Baseball Pen and Pencil set with insignia of team "checked". Then there were boxes of the teams so you could pick one. On the other side it has how to order 30 Full Color Poster Stamps and 36 Page Album. At the bottom of the form it says "USA Only, Sorry no _____ or ______." The correct answer has to include answers to those 2 blanks. And since it is more explicit now, Everyone still has 2 guesses starting now, but no edits. Please use separate posts for answers. Hope this helps. I can't make them too easy or it takes 5 seconds and the game is over. It's pretty hard to stump our board. (or at least those who care to play or read etc...). Good luck!!

ps... IF there is any question as to who wins I will make the final determination and try to be as fair as possible. First exact and correct guess still wins.

35 cents, no foreign coins or stamps.

No, sorry. Since I will be on the board most of the night and watching all of the auction stuff, I probably won't announce anything except the winner from here on out. Good luck and when I see the correct answer I will jump in.

35 cents, no CODs or postage stamps.

Bingo. Please Pm me your addy and preference....

fascinating. Apparently nearly identical sets or maybe the same set sold by different companies. Or perhaps one sold the others set?

The article from the poster stamp bulletin October 1944
http://www.alphabetilately.org/Cisfor/PSB/09-5-1.html

And their ad from later in the same issue.

http://www.alphabetilately.org/Cisfor/PSB/09-5-6.html

A bit confusing since they describe it as a set of 30 in one part of the article but later call it a set of 24 and show it as 24 in the ad.

As near as I can tell, they're the same set.

Steve B

I don't know Steve. I have been organizing stuff the last several days and am continually finding things I don't know I have. A couple days ago I found a Matty Black cap T206, raw, in probably vg'ish condition. I found this booklet shown at top and this form was inside it. I never had seen it before. As I said, I had to make it difficult. You contribute so much to this board that if you will PM your preference I will throw a shirt your way too. Thanks to everyone who guessed. It was a bit different than our normal ones and I think that is a good thing every now and then.

I didn't mean it to come across like that.

It's entirely Ok. It really was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about a set I've seen but hadn't gotten any of them. And I must confess to cheating a bit by using Google

And now we all have a new puzzle with the set being available from two different places at the same time. Other than the sets with overprints or ones intended to be that way like the 70's discs or the M101-X cards I can't think of many sets used by multiple companies and I can't think of a set sold by two different companies as their own with no branding.

The Poster Stamp bulletin offering seems really late for a 1944 issue, an October, maybe September release of a set of the 43 Yankees seems odd. The Bulletin was run by a gummed paper company that probably produced the stamps themselves. That makes me wonder if the set was printed for one company that sold them during 1944 and either left the printer with an unpaid order or had a bunch of unsold sets the printer helped them sell at the end of the year.

Or

Maybe the printer with an outlet for poster stamps had an arrangement with customers where they'd be allowed to print extras and sell them after the original promotion?

They're related to the 1949 Eureka set somehow. The poster stamp bulletin sold those too.

All that makes for a pretty strange situation.

Steve B