1921 Koesters Bread Cards

[rhettyeakley]

Leon, thanks for providing a great place for the sharing of information! We need to try to convert some of the T206-ies to come to the dark side and start collecting the really interesting stuff!

[brianp-beme]

And thanks to Rhett I discovered that six cards I had identified as W575-1 are most likely D383 Koester Bread cards. This information was just not available before in such a comprehensive fashion, and was obviously the result of years of research on these sets. It sure is appreciated. Definitely archive material...and thanks Leon for considering it as such.

Brian

[kmac32]

Great thread and thanks to Rhett and Leon. I have always found the black and white stuff to be interesting. Now we need SGC to get on board with the Koester Bread and W575-1 cards. I really love the way these cards look in the SGC holders but it is a little frustrating when the flips are mislabeled and SGC refuses to revisit the issue.

[quitcrab]

It was mentioned earlier that someone thought the cards came in peppermint candy.

Back in the 1980's an old man gave me some Koester cards.... (we didnt know they were Koesters cards at the time)
He told me he got them from a butterscotch candy company...KERRS candy.

He may have been wrong with his memory. This was in Baltimore ...Koesters bread was sold in Baltimore. Research was done and I couldn't find a link between Kerrs and baseball cards, but I find it interesting candy has been mentioned twice .

Maybe they were thinking of the american caramel issue?

[BuzzD]

Below is an example of the DE Vormer trimmed, Roth and Harper all on what is likely poster stock