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Posted By: fkw

Like Paul said, Tim Newcomb is the expert on all these postcard size 1930 premiums. He wrote a great 7 page article on them in the "Old Cardboard" issue #7 (spring 2006).

The 5- R314 sets vary quite a lot in availability. For example, In the last year Ive only seen 3 auctions that contained a R314D card (and one was misidentified as a R314A). Making them easily the scarcest as far as availability on eBay, by far.

Ive really only been looking into them seriously in the last year or so, but I have gotten a good picture of how rare some are.

Here is a post reproduced below I posted a short time back.....


There are 5 sets in the R314, with 3 fairly small.

R314A has 120 different cards in set, have "Litho USA" on bottom corner, very common.

R314B-1 has 24 in the set, they are borderless, and a smaller thick cursive name, scarce.

R314B-2 24 in set, same as above but has a border, scarce.

R314C "Canadian Creamy" 25 in the set, has a yellowish creamy tone card stock with a light gloss, slightly scarce.

R314D (V352) 47 in the set, slightly yellowish, no gloss, (8 Detroit players, rest are International Leaguers from Montreal and Toronto), very rare.


R314A, R314B-1, R314C, R314D