Discussion about Diamonds stars.

[Rookiemonster]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

We know them as R311's. They were given to retailers along with the regular cards and handed to the redeemer of 15 wrappers/coupons...


Not my piece but I had saved this image some time ago.

They don’t look Etched. All the R311 say 1936 but I thought the wrappers were from 1934 to 1936. Did they only give the premiums out in 1936?

[rhettyeakley]

The R311’s are a multi year issue that paralleled the Diamond Stars cards. As you can see above the envelope is dated 1935. They added new premiums over the years and the later added premiums are harder to find and likely correspond to the high numbers and the 1936 issues. About half the R311 set is really easy to find while the others are hard.

Later wrappers dropped the “etched” title and even included checklists of the available players. Not sure what they did in 1934 as nearly all the teams are dated 1935 or so but perhaps they had just single players that year. There is also the leather versions of R311 as well but the teams are also dated later so not sure in 1934.

[Rookiemonster]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

The R311’s are a multi year issue that paralleled the Diamond Stars cards. As you can see above the envelope is dated 1935. They added new premiums over the years and the later added premiums are harder to find and likely correspond to the high numbers and the 1936 issues. About half the R311 set is really easy to find while the others are hard.

Later wrappers dropped the “etched” title and even included checklists of the available players. Not sure what they did in 1934 as nearly all the teams are dated 1935 or so but perhaps they had just single players that year. There is also the leather versions of R311 as well but the teams are also dated later so not sure in 1934.

Thanks for the clarification on this set. I did notice that the Bill Terry card looks the same in both sets.