1967 Panini Boxing- Valida Back: Image Needed

[Jerry G]

Originally Posted by Box-Cards

... I had been looking for a decent quality, large and clear enough to be fully readable, image of the Valida back from Panini's 1967 Campioni Dello Sport. I've spent so much time researching Google-Bing-Ebay-and searching other internet sites that I'm exhausted--so I figured it was about time I used this quest's opportunity to not only come with my plea, but to start joining in henceforth. Every image I had run across thus far has been too low resolution to make everything in the text out, or too small a PIC to zoom up properly, or simply completely out of focus in the first place...

This might not be as large and clear as you need, but it might help. I also have a 1968/69 with a Valida back if you need it.

Edit: Just noticed that Arthur was going to send you an example, but I'll leave this here as others might be curious.

[Box-Cards]

Thanks Jerry. Got the one emailed from Arthur then worked on it awhile...came out beautiful. The other thing about the Ali Global Card Review that should be striking is that every card's front and back image is individually taken into Photoshop and worked on for as long as it took to make it a relative graphic representation of a PSA-10-type.

The time this took going through the issues from the 1960s and '70s was lost track of long ago. It really wasn't until the 1990s that the process sped up and I got a break.

[Exhibitman]

Dan, I don't have any of that info. Sorry. The data on Israeli cards is scant at best. I have specimens from three different issues and they are all very tough to pin down.

I am basing dating on the Ali on the careers of some of the athletes involved in the issue. Hodorov was done in 1964 but was a major team coach in 1969after which he went into non-sports activities. Shpigler's first big venue was the 1968 Olympics and he was a national team fixture into the 1970s. Pele left international play in 1971, retired from Santos in 1974, then went to NYC for a few years. Shachamorov became an Israeli star in 1969 in the Maccabee Games, then had an international career. She got married in 1973 and hyphenated her name with her husband's name "Roth". My best guesstimate is that the cards are somewhere in the years from 1969-1972.

[Box-Cards]

Understandable, Adam, we are fortunate just to have you share such an obscure issue with us and then provide what you know about the others in the series. Confirming it was an album card, you helped remove the asterisk next to the listing of the issue itself, which was great. Based on the info you know about the others, a likely year of '1969 to early '70s' is being Review entered with asterisk; its general designation that further documentation is required.

While here for anyone with an idea, does somebody know the exact year of the below Mexican album card's issue: #121 "Asses del Ring" Cassius Clay?

Had it recorded but somehow got deleted by accident; now can't remember.