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11-11-2025, 08:38 PM
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Long time coming
As some of you know, I'm related to the Billy Sullivans (Jr. and Sr.), which is why I collect their cards and memorabilia. I started collecting 30 years ago, and by now I have almost every issue they were part of (that I know of, anyway). But for all that time, one card in particular has eluded me, an R329 Clopay Foto Fun card of Billy Jr. from 1938. I have been looking for it for 30 years, and never even saw one for sale until this week, when I spotted one on eBay and snagged it. It is a definitely a peculiar issue, where the card owner had to actually develop the picture themselves from a negative, and then put it in a sleeve designed to look like a picture frame. I don't know who Bob Sturgeon was (and kind of wish he hadn't written his name on the sleeve frame), but I am grateful to him for preserving the card of my grandfather.
In a slightly strange twist, I got a new garage door a couple of years ago, and it was made by Clopay. Yes, the same company that put out the Foto Fun card in 1938. They are still in business, and are now one of the biggest manufacturers of garage doors in the US.
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11-11-2025, 09:16 PM
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Paul, great pickup - congrats! Fortunately, the Bob Sturgeon kid didn't write his name on the card. You should be able to acquire a clean frame, even if you have to acquire a different card with it, and then switch frames.
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Seeking very scarce/rare cards for my Sam Rice master collection, e.g., E210 York Caramel Type 2 (upgrade), 1931 W502, W504 (upgrade), W572 sepia, W573, 1922 Haffner's Bread, 1922 Keating Candy, 1922 Witmor Candy Type 2 (vertical back), 1926 Sports Co. of Am. with ad & blank backs. Also 1917 Merchants Bakery & Weil Baking cards of WaJo. Also E222 A.W.H. Caramel cards of Revelle & Ryan.
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11-11-2025, 09:21 PM
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11-11-2025, 09:35 PM
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That is a great story and awesome ending!
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11-11-2025, 09:38 PM
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Congrats! So happy you snagged one.
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11-12-2025, 05:14 AM
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Very cool, thanks for sharing! I actually co-op'ed at Clopay in Cincinnati when I was in college.
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11-12-2025, 07:18 AM
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Congrats!
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11-12-2025, 09:59 AM
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Congrats!! Awesome story. It's all worth it in the end.
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11-12-2025, 11:36 AM
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Great story and congrats on the pickup!
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11-12-2025, 11:53 AM
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Fantastic story......congratulations!!!!
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11-12-2025, 04:47 PM
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Nothing like nabbing that long-sought white whale to a prized collection. Congrats!
And in this case, while it might be an unpopular opinion, having a long-ago collector's name on it makes the 'card' that much cooler in my eyes.
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