R313A Gold Medal Foods / Flour / Wheaties

[MikeGarcia]

Hey wow thanks for all the digging...the Jack Burns has a layer of nicotine protecting his gloss except where the thumbtacks were positioned

..is there a salutation on your image of Al Simmons ?....I've been needing that one but I always get outbid...

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[abothebear]

Thanks, Mike!

Do you know if there are/were envelopes associated with any of those? It would be great to connect them directly to Gold Medal Foods.

The Simmons image does have the salutation. It is taken from the 2008 Lew Lipsett auction listing. http://www.oldjudge.com/archive/200811/sets/56/

George

[jeffmohler]

Hi George

The lot of four that recently sold on Ebay included the envelope. The envelope's return address was Gold Medal Foods. The stamp was a precancel from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The addressee was to a person in Ohio, which makes sense when you consider that the four cards were Indians. I think it is safe to attribute this issue to Gold Medal Foods. Whether they were a Wheaties premum or not, I don't know.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1934-Gold-Me...p2047675.l2557

[abothebear]

Yes, thank you, Jeffrey. I should note that in the summary.

I was wondering about the 3 additional ones that Mike posted, especially the minor leaguer (given the oddity of its design and that it isn't a major league player).

[jeffmohler]

For the record here are my four cards. I picked them up on Ebay about 4 years ago as part of a group of wide pens. There was actually a thread on this forum at the time wondering why a group of eight ungraded wide pens went for $500.00! A couple people thought it was crazy.

I think Rhett Yeakley said he was the underbidder. He and I were the only ones who saw the listing and recognized it for what it was. It isn't often I have more knowledge than most of the posters on the Board

What I think is interesting is that I believe the ones I bought were probably an original grouping. The one on Ebay appeared to be as well. Each lot included four cards. I wonder if that was a "maximum" number that would be sent out in one envelope? There really isn't enough evidence one way or another I guess.

I think this is a fascinating subset and often search Ebay for these cards, but I missed the most recent group.

[abothebear]

I remember that thread. That might have been the first non-cardinals/tigers I saw).

I have wondered about the number sent in envelopes too. I won an auction with an envelope that included 6 from the R313A-1 set. I assumed that they all came together. I vaguely recall seeing a grouping of 5 with an envelope, which I thought was odd at the time. I hesitate to bring it up because I can't verify it.

The auction was a lot that had 20 total cards, the other 14 being the very thin stock R cards. All 20 were sent to me in the envelope, So more than 6 can fit into a Gold Medal Foods envelope (I don't know what the postage limit would be).

I wonder if the number that were sent out had to do with what was sent in to receive them (box tops, coupons, ???).

[JLange]

I recall from the Old Cardboard article that the envelopes that contained these cards had a number printed below the address that was thought to indicate how many cards were in the envelope. I noticed though that the most recent eBay auction with four Cleveland cards came in an envelope with the number two printed on it.

[abothebear]

Originally Posted by JLange

I recall from the Old Cardboard article that the envelopes that contained these cards had a number printed below the address that was thought to indicate how many cards were in the envelope.

Cool. I just checked mine and it had a "6" typed on it, same as the number of cards I received in the lot.

[abothebear]

There looks to be a picture of a subject I don't have a scan of between Hale and Simmons. I can't tell who it is from what I have here http://www.oldcardboard.com/misc/issue06/issue06.asp .

[abothebear]

Still looking for scans of (at least) Blaeholder, Campbell, Faber, Knott, and 3 of the 4 Des Moines Demons.

And I am personally still looking to upgrade my Fred Marberry. 