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09-24-2024, 10:23 AM
Balticfox
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swarmee
Post Canadian looks like this, with French text:
I ate box after box of Sugar Crisp as a kid in 1962 trying to complete a set of the Canadian Post Baseball cards. I eventually realized that a set couldn't be completed from Sugar Crisp alone. Here's a copy of the ad that was included in the comic sections of Saturday newspapers in the spring of 1962 to advertise these cards:
I've been pecking away at the set since 1980 or so but it's gone slowly since there are multiple short prints and I'm very picky when it comes to whiteness as well as cut. Here are scans of some from my collection:
I also have three intact sheets that were inserted inside boxes of Sugar Crisp between the cardboard and the cereal bag:
The other five Canadian Sugar Crisp panels are high on my Baseball Want List with the one containing Willie Mays being my highest priority:
That's because I traded a Willie Mays panel off eighteen months ago to a Post collecting buddy in Pennsylvania who made me a very decent offer of the Ernie Banks panel, a couple of other shortprints and a small wad of cash for it.
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