1949 Exhibit Cards

[smtjoy]

Ok some of this info might deserve to be on the front page as it affect a few Exhibit sets, I won a lot, that had a few paper items from a person who was a customer of the Exhibit Supply Company, the lot had three main items- 1948 letter to clarify an order that was placed, 1949 Exhibit Price List(4 pages) and 1950 Exhibit Order Form.

1- 1948 letter to clarify an order that was placed- the letter is dated June 24, 1948, the letter does not really contain any info but does establish that the person did order from them

2- 1949 Exhibit Price List- This has great info and full of pictures, its 4 pages front and back with pictures of all the series you could order that year. The envelope this was mailed in was dated May 5th 1949

3- 1950 Exhibit Order Form- Another great item that list everything you could order and prices for all. It also marks sets as new with an black dot and those updated for 1950 with an "X".

A few things I noticed from looking these over was-

1- On the Baseball Stars Page 3- It clearly list 64 cards (So I would think they had 32 that did not change from 1948 as well as the 32 with the "AN EXHIBIT CARD" listed to make 64) and the card shown is a salutation (which to me adds credence that these cards should really be considered to have been one set running 1939-66). Also on the enlargement of the standup machine 3 of the 8 cards shown are salutations and a number of them are from 1948 issues.

2- Football stars- not listed in the 1949 price list but they do appear on the 1950 order form. Confirms they were not issued that year.

3- Hall of Fame- This set is usually given a date of 1948 but the price guild list it as a new set for 1949 and an unchanged set in 1950, I am guessing that in 1948 they had these four sets (Football, Baseball, Boxing and World Champs) in 1949 Football was dropped and Hall of Fame was added. In 1950 the four were (Hall of Fame, Football, Baseball, Boxing) and World Champs was dropped which is how its always been listed as a 1948-49 set. Now the question is when did they stop the Hall of Fame cards, 1951 or when?

4- 1950 Order Form- list the Football set as a new set and that Baseball and Boxing were updated and Hall of Fame stayed the same. This just confirms the process of updating the baseball set each year along with a number of other sets like- Prizefighters, Buckaroos and autograph Film and TV stars.

Thats all I have though of so far but let me know what you think. Its some cool items and nice to get a look at how these were ordered and sold back then.

Here are the pics-
1948 letter

1949 Exhibit Price List






1950 Exhibit Order Form

[whiteymet]

Hey Scott:

Neat stuff!! I have a similar catalog from 1961. I think my scans are too big to upload here. I'll send you the scans via email.

Fred

[Leon]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Hey Scott:

Neat stuff!! I have a similar catalog from 1961. I think my scans are too big to upload here. I'll send you the scans via email.

Fred

Fred - if you can send scans to my email I will post them for you. leonl@flash.net

Great thread guys. Most likely I will have this put into our permanent archives section.

[Leon]

For Fred....

[Exhibitman]

Interesting stuff, gentlemen.

Scott, I've been saying for years that the separation between the Salutations and the 1947-66 "sets" is inaccurate but I cannot seem to convince the SCD people of that. Here's more proof, a baseball-boxing header with a Passeau Salutation and a Musial:



Uncut sheet with a Salutations Williams right next to a Colavito Detroit [he was traded from Cleveland after the 1959 season]:



I noticed in the 1949 catalog that the World Champs and Prizefighters cards are mock-ups but the HOF and baseball cards are actual card images. Wonder why?

Here are the cover and an interior page of a 1955 catalog:





Note they were still selling football cards in 1955.

[Zach Wheat]

Wow, great info Scott. Thanks for posting all the pics.

Z Wheat