Authenticating Post Cereal Cards

[hoot-owl]

LeftHandedDane--

You should try either of these sets if you think the 63 Post and 63 Jellos sets are difficult (and they are). The short prints in the Post Canadian and 62 Jello set are simply not available.

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by hoot-owl

LeftHandedDane--

You should try either of these sets if you think the 63 Post and 63 Jellos sets are difficult (and they are). The short prints in the Post Canadian and 62 Jello set are simply not available.

The Post Canadian set is nuts. It took me 3 years to find one card, and I had to pay substantially over book to land it. Awesome cards though.

[LeftHandedDane]

I need Estrada in 61; Sam Taylor in 62; and Battey, Maris, Blanchard, Willie Davis, Burdette, and Aspromonte in 63.

I believe you on the Canadian and Jello cards, I have not even tried to pursue those sets.

Some other challenging (minor) sets to fill (at least for me) are the 1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites, 1961 Topps Stamps, and some of the Fleer/Laughlin sets (Famous Feats, Wildest Days and Plays, Baseball Firsts).

[brian1961]

As a Roger Maris collector, I am a huge fan of his 1963 Post Cereal card. It is a very hard card to find, indeed. Moreover, Roger's portrait is priceless---what a beautiful smile! He and the photographer must have connected nicely. It's so vibrant, and since all too many of his Topps cards show no smile, I really appreciate the Post.

I don't care how plentiful the '62 Post is; I love that Rajah too. Our brother who mentioned the difficulty of the 1962 JELL-O knows precisely what he's talking about. Sure, it's the same photograph as the commonplace Post, yet it is very different----the coloring, the use of more of the original photo, and the design differences unique to the '62 JELL-O, definitely put it in a class of its own.

I've got an incredibly sad and frustrating story to relate from my childhood as an 8-year-old in Skokie, Illinois regarding 1962 JELL-Os. I did my best to "paint the picture", without going on and on, and included it in the first chapter of my book on post-war regional / food issues, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN.

If you haven't treated yourself to this delight, get on YOUTUBE and type in Post Cereal Mickey Mantle, and the same with Roger Maris. There's a couple of old black 'n white TV commercials that are saturated with period charm. Gets ya right here, if ya know what I mean.

Love these Post / JELL-O discussions. Have a great one, guys. ---Brian Powell

[Bestdj777]

Brian, without hijacking, when are you getting that book out? I finished the Explosions book you recommended and am anxiously awaiting Never Cheaper by the Dozen.

[brian1961]

Hiya Chris. Glad you read EXPLOSION. Tell me, what did you honestly think of it? Isn't it a treasury of Mickey Mantle heroics and anecdotes? So many of those dear guys who shared their memories with the author have since passed away. Their superb re-telling of the events of Mick's home runs make them come alive again. The author took a subject, Mickey Mantle's home runs, and did such a good job without becoming boring or redundant. Of course, for us Mickey Mantle fans, his home runs are never redundant!!!!

Now to your question about my book. The father of one of my wife's guitar students happens to be a lawyer, a copyright attorney no less. He successfully got my book copyrighted, and so my next step will be finding a printing company to put it on a CD that can easily be slipped into a desk or laptop computer for viewing. While I wanted a printed version, of course, the second choice is very workable, and the pictures look fantastic!

Whilst I'm very embarrassed about how long this has taken and being ignored by the sought publisher, I am buoyed by the fact this is very do-able. I have not forgotten you, my friend; I will email you as soon as it's ready. At this point it looks like it will be $25-28 dollars, postpaid. For those that even hint the price might be high, it's the equivalent of a 480-page book. Though the pictures are relatively few, I've often said they're alone worth the price of the book. Then again, I've also maintained it is not a picture book but a treasury of stories and anecdotes and social history of how important baseball cards can be to a kid, and the lengths he will go to hunt down a card he feverishly desires. As adults, those feelings don't change; in fact, they intensify!!

By the way, what does hijacking a thread mean anyway?

Wishing you the very, very best Chris. --Brian Powell

[1963Topps Set]

I just wanted to know how Post was able to produce full sets of cards while Fleer was not able too?

[Bestdj777]

Hi Brian,

I thought it was an exceptional read. I am not a big reader--I do far too much reading as part of my job to devote much of my free time to it--but I thought it was excellent. Having never watch some of the players, it felt as if you were almost at a game. Plus, I got to learn a lot about some of the other Yankees I own cards of but have not studied in any great detail.

Hijacking a thread means to derail it by taking it off course and discussing something else.

Look forward to reading your book!

Chris