Wheaties Panels

[bnorth]

These are very cool. After seeing them I wanted to make a few different boxes for my personal collection. Way too poor to buy real ones so I settle for "custom" made pieces. This one is 3 1/8" X 5 3/4". Here is a great site I found that shows a ton of box designs. http://cerealpriceguide.blogspot.com...ice-guide.html

[sandmountainslim]

Originally Posted by bnorth

These are very cool. After seeing them I wanted to make a few different boxes for my personal collection. Way too poor to buy real ones so I settle for "custom" made pieces. This one is 3 1/8" X 5 3/4". Here is a great site I found that shows a ton of box designs. http://cerealpriceguide.blogspot.com...ice-guide.html

That box looks great! Thanks for the link, Very cool site.

[sandmountainslim]

How rare/common are the various Wheaties panels when compared to other releases from the period like Goudey, Play Ball, Exhibits etc?

[Exhibitman]

They're tougher to find but not with great demand owing to the sizes and usually ragged condition. I happen to really like them and have quite a few.

Series 1 I appreciate the clear, clean pop art-style images:



Nice thing is that if the kid messed up the border partially, as he did with the Klein, you can bob it down the next layer of frame and it still looks good:



The instructional ones can be a little more ragged:



One thing that is clear with handling lots of Wheaties boxes is that kids in the 1930s had very poor hand-eye coordination because most of the box cards I see have miserable cuts. As do most strip cards.

[sandmountainslim]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

They're tougher to find but not with great demand owing to the sizes and usually ragged condition. I happen to really like them and have quite a few.

Series 1 I appreciate the clear, clean pop art-style images:



Nice thing is that if the kid messed up the border partially, as he did with the Klein, you can bob it down the next layer of frame and it still looks good:



The instructional ones can be a little more ragged:



One thing that is clear with handling lots of Wheaties boxes is that kids in the 1930s had very poor hand-eye coordination because most of the box cards I see have miserable cuts. As do most strip cards.

I am starting to like them a lot also. Bought three in the past week and will probably ad more.

[brianp-beme]

Since I first became aware of its existence a few years back, I have loved the Mungo that Chris showed...he's got one foot firmly planted on solid ground, a high leg kick over the moon, and his head in the sun. Talk about conceptual...

It is the only one that I own, but I do really like others from the same series as well.

Brian

[Keith H. Thompson]

Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy.

[Snapolit1]

All the talk of Wheaties panels had me foraging for some new Gehrig stuff. Picked these up on Ebay. Odd item. Advertising proof sheets that were from the estate of an advertising guy who worked for the company with the GM account in the 1930s. The seller seems totally above board so I took a shot. Certainly not something you see every day.

(If this is some knock off or fantasy piece. . . let me have it with both barrels.)