1949 and 1950 bowman baseball five cent wrappers: how do you tell the difference??

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Steve_NY

Ted, Thanks for chiming in. Are you saying that all 1950 packs came in one cent wrappers dated 1950? Have you ever opened a RWB wrapper that contained 1950 cards? Have you ever seen a 1950 RWB 5 cent wrapper dated 1950? Thanks again. Steve_NY

Steve

Twice I have said that I collected 1950 BOWMAN BB cards in the year 1950 when I was a young dude. So, I'm providing you first-hand knowledge.

I remember that early in the Spring of 1950, Bowman first issued 1-cent packs. About the time the School season had ended (circa June), the 1950 BOWMAN packs
were all 5-cent packs until the BOWMAN FB cards were in our candy stores (circa Fall of 1950).

The 1-cent and 5-cent wrappers on all these cards that year were dated 1950.

I was very fortunate to save all my original sportscards from 1947 - 1952. And, I still have them. My original 1950 BOWMAN set was near complete when I got back
into this hobby in 1977. Only needed Ted Williams and about half a dozen commons.

Just to give you an idea where I'm coming from....my BOWMAN collection consists of 1948 to 1955 complete sets (three 1949 sets, which includes the rare PCL set).
Furthermore, I have a number of BOWMAN uncut sheets......here is my 1950 mid-series sheet:






TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Steve_NY]

Ted, This is exactly the kind of confirmation that I was looking for. That all 1950 1 cent and 5 cent packs were dated. If so, does anyone have such a 5 cent wrapper to confirm that? My guess is no because I have gone through hoops to find one. Ted, Do you have a dated 1950 5 cent wrapper or pack in your collection? Can anyone prove this theory.
Ted, Thanks again for all of pix and details. I didn't start collecting until the late 1950's so I guess you are a few years older than me. But I wasn't as lucky as you; I traded my cards for comic books. But I still have all of those comic books, and I guess I probably did pretty damn well in the long run since I collected all of the DCs and Marvels and have long runs of the majority of them.