1962 Jell-O Pudding Cards - Help

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by droid714

I know it's a bit off topic, but Ebay currently has two 1962 Jell-O Romano's listed and one is listed as "A" and the other is listed as "B". I can't see any difference between the two.

Can anyone explain the difference between the "A" and "B" variant?

Thanks, John

I think it is just to differentiate the two separate 1962 Jell-O Romano cards that the seller has listed, I have seen other eBay sellers do that.

[Kenmarks]

The two Romano cards do seem to be the same to me. Will say I have looked at a lot of cards in this set trying to find players who appeared on two or more different flavor boxes. And for the 1962 Jell-O issue, it is much tougher to determine this than doing it for the Post Cereal cards ... and really the 63 Jell-O cards also. Normally in making this determination, one compares the cropping of the picture, colors of the card (including the shade of the yellow of the stat background) of these Jell-O cards. Some other Post/Jell-O card issues have differences in the narrative portion of the card that indicates multiple box appearances by a player. However for the 62 Jell-Os cards, I am not aware of any of these narrative differences. And that is about all you have beyond the shininess of the overall card coming from cards from pudding flavors. One of the factors that increases difficulty in looking at these Jell-O cards is certainly that the picture cropping is much tougher to spot than in other card promotions. Cropping differences in this set tend to be pretty minimal. Since there is no historical information on which players were on which flavor boxes, that only makes things tougher.

Related to Romano card specifically, he did appear on at least two different Jell-O boxes ... a 3 oz. Orange-Pineapple box and a 6 oz. Black Cherry box. This is known as there are examples in the hobby of these two Romano boxes that have been seen, primarily on eBay or other auctions.

[cannonballsun]

These 2 boxes were from the recent Memory Lane Auction. The Aaron went for over $4000, the Maris went for around $2000.
The Aaron/Orange box was not yet on Ken's list.

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by cannonballsun

These 2 boxes were from the recent Memory Lane Auction. The Aaron went for over $4000, the Maris went for around $2000.
The Aaron/Orange box was not yet on Ken's list.

Another picture of the Maris.

[Baseballcrazy62]

This Cash is on eBay now. Looks like chocolate.
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[skil55voy]

Originally Posted by cannonballsun View Post
These 2 boxes were from the recent Memory Lane Auction. The Aaron went for over $4000, the Maris went for around $2000.
The Aaron/Orange box was not yet on Ken's list.


I have added the Aaron-Orange Box to my list. I also have found that card number 88 Bill Tuttle may be from Lemon Flavor Jell-O. I am trying to get a good scan to come out. I can see Yellow outside the border at the bottom of the end of the statistics.

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by skil55voy

Originally Posted by cannonballsun View Post
These 2 boxes were from the recent Memory Lane Auction. The Aaron went for over $4000, the Maris went for around $2000.
The Aaron/Orange box was not yet on Ken's list.


I have added the Aaron-Orange Box to my list. I also have found that card number 88 Bill Tuttle may be from Lemon Flavor Jell-O. I am trying to get a good scan to come out. I can see Yellow outside the border at the bottom of the end of the statistics.

This is a Tuttle box (orange gelatin) that I once owned, since traded away.