Mount Rushmore of Football Cards

[whiteymet]

After Sunday nights BST Auction it looks like the Exhibit Checklist card showing Chuck Bednarik should make the Mt. Rushmore of cards seeing what it sold for!

https://www.bst-auctions.com/1950_W4...s-LOT3024.aspx

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

After Sunday nights BST Auction it looks like the Exhibit Checklist card showing Chuck Bednarik should make the Mt. Rushmore of cards seeing what it sold for!

https://www.bst-auctions.com/1950_W4...s-LOT3024.aspx

A strong price for sure. Particularly since some collectors/dealers wonder whether it is a legitimate card or not. Would be curious what the grading companies would say about it.

jeff

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

A strong price for sure. Particularly since some collectors/dealers wonder whether it is a legitimate card or not. Would be curious what the grading companies would say about it.

jeff

Jeff

Curious what the concerns are? Maybe that this is a paper header card attached to another card? Only thing I can think of. Please enlighten

[th38larg]

Well if you go by the original dealer's notations on the back, they didn't think it was anything special either.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Jeff

Curious what the concerns are? Maybe that this is a paper header card attached to another card? Only thing I can think of. Please enlighten

That's it. There are examples of this checklist out there but they are all paper thin. The displays out there from the ESCO machines that distributed these cards all have paper thin images of the cards pasted on them. Here is one I have.



Regardless, it is a really cool item and if it hadn't gone so high I would have loved to have had it!

jeff

[orly57]

I feel like the N162 Beecher should be on any football card Mount Rushmore. Definitely Nagursk belongs, and it is the only no-brainer. I hate to admit that the Namath belongs up there. I would round it out with the Sport Kings Grange.
I wouldn't fist-fight you if you wanted to argue Jim Brown and Johnny U belong over any of my suggestions other than nagurski. And I also think the Mayo Cut Anonymous deserves strong consideration.

[glynparson]

Nagurski
Unitas
Brown
Namath

[cfhofer]

Completely agree with glynparson. While Dunlop and Beecher are great cards, their value is based solely on rarity. I’d rather have cards of players that non-collectors would appreciate.