toughest 1962 Jello

[skil55voy]

Ken's post is spot on. As for collecting a Cardinals team set, Simmons, Flood etc. are extremely difficult. In addition if you are collecting Cardinals, from the 1963 Jell-O set: Javier, Gotay, James, Oliver, Gibson, McDaniel are relatively difficult to obtain as all of them appeared on 6 ounce boxes. In my experience James is the most difficult of the 5. (All of the difficult cards in the 63 set were on 6 ounce boxes) An aside to this is the Post Cereal sets from 61-63. There are no known toughies from the 62 set. Curt Flood can be difficult in the 63 Post set. It could also be noted that James is more difficult as he appeared on only one box type. In the 1961 set the Cardinals are the most difficult to complete. Dan Mabey referred to this in his book on the 1961 set. (Cardboard, Crunch, Milk & Scissors) "Four of the six single prints appeared on non-mainstream packages". As has been my experience they are and Larry Jackson is extremely difficult.
I am very interested in resolving who was on what box in the 62 Jell-O set. I have a list of players we have not identified. If any interest please message me.

[Kevvyg1026]

I have seen and read some of the posts regarding various Jello cards and the boxes on which they were found. Is there a similar discussion (re:list) regarding which cereal boxes the Post cereal cards were found?

In other words, isthere a compilation which identifies which cards were on which type of cereal box? I found this image on ebay.

1961 Post Cereal Box.jpg

[cannonballsun]

Dan Mabey wrote several books about Post Cereal cards. That information is probably readily available in his books. His books, however, are not that easy to come across. Probably someone on net 54 could direct you how on to pick up his books.
The Post Cereal cards are much better known than the 1962 Jell-O. Many things about 1962 Jell-O are still unknown. I think just about everything about the Post Cereal cards has been learned.

[Kenmarks]

It’s pretty tough these days to get ahold of one of Dan’s books. I think he sold out of everything except his 1962 book. Because of the technology used back 20+ years ago when the books were first published, and the loss of his masters in his move back to California a couple of years ago, he no longer has the ability of reprinting more copies of his books. It’s kind of sad because there is certainly a demand. If you want to get ahold of him directly, send me a note and I can help connect you up.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Kenmarks

It’s pretty tough these days to get ahold of one of Dan’s books. I think he sold out of everything except his 1962 book. Because of the technology used back 20+ years ago when the books were first published, and the loss of his masters in his move back to California a couple of years ago, he no longer has the ability of reprinting more copies of his books. It’s kind of sad because there is certainly a demand. If you want to get ahold of him directly, send me a note and I can help connect you up.

I wonder if they could be photocopied and reissued in book form like VCBC did with Lew Lipset's Encyclopedia's? You lose detail on the images but the text comes through fine.

[skil55voy]

When I bought his books, (perhaps 10 years ago "estimated")I had his contact information and he had them reprinted for me. I don't have his current contact info.

[Kenmarks]

Recently Dan unearthed his old floppy disks from the turn of this century that contained his book material. He is now going thru and working on being able to recover the book material to be able to reissue his books. Floppy disks are not easy to work with in these days. As a result it sounds like it is a bit of an uphill battle, but he also seems pretty committed. These books are going to be the same as the past and will not be updated for any new stuff unearthed since. That really is not a problem since there is only a miniscule amount of changes that could be made to the books today. They are classics and so many of us learned the basics of Post Cereal card collecting from Dan and his books. No timetable for completion that I have hard of.