1949 Leaf Stan Musial color Variations? Why so different?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by yanks87

That's amazing, there cannot be many of them out there, and I wonder if it was a sales sample or a different run? Does anyone know if there was alternate versions in the other sports? Wholesale different photos used?

As far as I've seen, there is no other completely-different image card for any of the 1948-1949 Leaf issues, baseball or otherwise. The Boxing set does have the pulled Graziano card with only a handful known to exist at all (and numerous variations with fighters shirts and coloring, but all the same poses). I believe the Newhouser remains a "1 of 1", presumably an internal sample or protoype of some sort.

Here's the auction it appeared in originally in 2009 (http://feb09.hugginsandscott.com/cgi...l?itemid=10523), with some guessing about it's nature and the discovery. I don't remember it appearing since then, but it may have.

[steve B]

I'm not sure if it's been cleaned up, but Newhousers wikipedia page shows that card without staple holes or the auction watermark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Newhouser

[Exhibitman]

The white background variations are the bane of Leaf: they were in baseball, football and boxing. A Musial sold a few years ago for a small fortune...then.

[Belfast1933]

If anyone on this thread would consider selling one of their ‘49 Leaf Musials, please PM me... after absorbing all of this great background on the set and the Musial, I’d LOVE to try and add one to my collection

Thx all!

Jeff

[stlcardsfan]

Jeff you might try to post that in the BST 1920-49 forum. Might find one there. Good luck!

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by stlcardsfan

Jeff you might try to post that in the BST 1920-49 forum. Might find one there. Good luck!

Thx Cards fan! Will do that... if I land one, I’ll post it here