Up for your consideration is an exceedingly rare Sohio Gas Cleveland Indians regional issue photo album with 18 photographs.
Before reading any further we need to stress to you the fact that these photos have never been attached from each other.
Due to this, a tremendous premium is added to the set.
Usually this set is found one of 2 ways. Either the photos are loose in the booklet attached from each other, or they are stuck on their respective slots inside the album.
This set includes the infamous Roger Maris Rookie.
For the 1957 season, the Sohio service station chain released (18) card team sets and photo albums for the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.
These black and white perforated cards measure 5x7 and are accompanied by a facsimile autograph.
This 1957 Sohio Oil Cleveland Indians complete team set and photo album has (18) higher-grade cards including a Roger Maris rookie. Key cards include Colavito (NM), Lemon, Maris RC and Wynn. The remainder of the cards
Also present is an attractive Cleveland Indians photo album.
The cards from the Sohio set were designed to be pasted into this multi-colored 6x8 album.
This 20-page album has crisp black inner pages and front and back covers.
The coupling of this regional set along with the tough album ensures the viability of these contemporary tribal artifacts.
$185
Up for your consideration is a 1949 Brooklyn Dodgers picture pack that depicts all (25) members of the National League Champions.
These mostly (NM) black-and-white photographs measure approximately 6-1/2 x 9 and feature Campanella, Hodges, Newcombe, Reese, Robinson and Snider. The original envelope is also present.
The Dodgers started issuing photo packs in 1941 and continued them every year into the 1950's.
For unknown reasons the 1949 team issue in extremely rare and very few are known.
In many cases the photos used correlate to the Dodger photos in the 1949 Bowman set. The photo pack includes Jack Banta, Rex Barney, Ralph Branca, Tommy Brown, Roy Campanella, Billy Cox, Bruce Edwards, Carl Furillo, Joe Hatten, Gene Hermanski, Gil Hodges, Johnny Hopp, John Jurgensen, Mike McCormick, Ed Miksis, Don Newcombe, Erv Palica, Jake Pitler, Peewee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Preacher Roe, Burt Shotten, Duke Snider, Milt Stock and Clyde Sukeforth.
$380
