Issue Question

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Posted By: Will Hays

Can anyone help me place this issue? The five non-Orbit discs are metal with a player on each side, #1 and #2 on either side. They have to be from 1933 or 1934 as one player, Johnny Hodapp, is a Red Sox. 1-1/8" diameter. Players on these five ar Earnshaw / Melillo, Frisch / Clark, Pipgrass / Bottomley, Earnshaw / Alexander and Goslin / Hodapp.

Winner gets a free West Coast Memorabilia t-shirt at the National. Don't forget to remind me.

Thanks, Will

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Two of the disks together form a "coin". But don't put them together--they are hard to separate.


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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

double-headers too.........

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Posted By: Rob D.

My lone example, Wes Ferrell.

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Posted By: boxingcardman

you can separate them and recombine the players or keep them separately.

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

as was stated they are PX3 Double Header Discs, you were encouraged to "Add #1 to #2 and make a Double-Header" I believe they were a Gum Inc. issue. I have seen a wrapper for the issue, but they (the wrappers) are EXTREMELY scarce. Those with #2 at bottom are slightly smaller in diameter than those with #1 and fit inside the #1's. Thus I have found #2's are usually rougher as their paint around the outside has been worn putting the disc inside the other.

Here are a few more, they came in a wide array of colors.


Obviously today people would rather have them as singles as opposed to "coins" so you might want to seperate them. This can be difficult, but I have had success using small suction cups on each side and pulling them apart. This will work unless there is any oxidation that has occured.
-Rhett

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Posted By: Jeff Schwarz

Here is one of the wrappers.

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Posted By: leon

Cool wrapper...I don't remember ever seeing that one...thanks for sharing

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Posted By: Red

Interesting that the wrapper says 500 players.