Help Identifying a few 1940's issues

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Posted By: Marc S.

Jay:

The 1957 Swift Meat cards were attached to one another. The set was a set of eighteen, issued in three panels of six cards attached to one another. Since the set was intended to be separated [as opposed to kept together] - a perforated single is often what you will end up with. That being said - this set is often found in the complete set form, many times with the original mailing envelope and game board.

Of course - many contemporaneous collectors simply removed the body parts and put the players back together, so to speak. There is a gentleman at the Ft. Washington show that has a bucket of the assembled player available for a few bucks each.

Grading, as always is subjective - and there are numerous post-war issues that were perforated and separated...

Now, how you grade a MINT, versus NM/MT versus GEM MINT perforation is an entire different thread of silliness that I shall not broach here.

~ms