Ode to Post-war Football Oddball Sets

Sweet odd-ball sets everyone, love the KFC UW players! The Eskimo Pie Company offered a lot of mail-in promos; dye-cast toys, hot wheels, balsa wood airplanes, plush toys, all sorts of stuff. They had a hand in the production of the 1928 Yuengling baseball card set and the nearly impossible to complete 1969 AFL Football Set (handcut from Eskimo Pie boxes).

The poster ad with various sports equipment is circa 1930's, The Jolly Club litho'd tin tabs were made in the 1950's, and the real Super Bowl III MVP, Matt Snell.

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Oh Eskimo Pie, why do you mock me??

The Gino Cappelletti/Dale Livingston card is my white whale

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My one and only fetish, Fairmont Dairy Kansas City Chiefs(like that's a secret)

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Another one of the few AAFC "card" sets out there. The 1948 Colts Matchbooks.





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In 1967 Royal Castle, which I believe was a burger joint in FL, put out a Miami Dolphins regional set. There aren't a huge amount of stars in it (as the Dolphins were REALLY bad before Shula showed up) but it does include some extremely difficult SPs that I've never seen. One of these is a card of Bob Griese.

Here are a few of the other cards in the set of the more popular players.







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Raiders team issue ca. 1974. Clarence Davis, Alonzo Thomas, Charlie Smith, Bubba Smith, Jack Tatum. Only way to get career contemporary cards of some of the team legends.



1962 Lee Jeans Jimmy Taylor



1959 Baltimore News-Post Colts:




1959 Baltimore News-Post and Baltimore American Colts:



The set itself consists of a complete chronicle of the 1959 season and looks like this:





The write-ups are on both sides of the pages, so it was definitely a special issue. Since this last one was dated 12/29/59, I am not sure if it was a 1959 issue made at the tail end of the year or a 1960 issue. Anyway, it is still fun. I have a second complete set that I am going to either sell or consign to an AH.


1961 National City Bank Jimmy Brown:



Jim Brown team issues:







Did I mention that I collect Jim Brown cards?

And finally, after years of fruitless searching, I was able to pick up a tinted stock Exhibit card: