1951 Hirsch Clothing Stores Chicago Cubs Premiums

[Cliff Bowman]

I picked up what I believe is a full set of these in August 2016 at a Buy-It-Now price that I couldn't pass up, and I didn't think much about them until someone recently put up one of the photos on eBay at a big price. In his description, he tells that they are extremely rare and only three Cubs were known. I did some research on them and found out that they were listed in the 2016 Standard Catalog of Vintage Cards, so I bought a copy on eBay to see what information the Catalog had. It only lists the three known photos of Hank Sauer, Johnny Schmitz, and Bob Schultz. My set has a neat light brown envelope/album to hold the photos, a photo with Manager Frank Frisch, and ten players. All photos have statistics or a write up on the back. I do not know if this constitutes a complete set, but I would imagine it is. I would have contacted Bob Lemke first about these, but he has unfortunately passed on.

[Cliff Bowman]

The eleven photos are Manager Frank Frisch and players Phil Cavarretta, Cal McLish, Paul Minner, Andy Pafko, Bob Rush, Hank Sauer, Johnny Schmitz, Bob Schultz, Roy Smalley, and Rube Walker.

[Rascal1010]

Very cool set you have there Cliff!

[Mark70Z]

Cliff,

While I don’t know much of anything on these I love viewing the odd-ball type items and pieces I’ve never seen before. Very cool set.

[jb67]

Those are off-the-charts-cool!!!!

[Cliff Bowman]

Here are the backs of the 11 photos. They are Frisch, and then the players in alphabetical order, Cavarretta, McLish, Minner, Pafko, Rush, Sauer, Schmitz, Schultz, Smalley, Walker.

[nolemmings]

Very nice--thanks for sharing.

[Jason Carota]

The set alone is amazing. The envelope/album takes it to the next level!