What did I buy?

[MCyganik]

Originally Posted by oldeboo

Sounds pretty close. Here is what the scrap book looks like that these were cut from. The scrap book still doesn't explain where the images came from. There are plenty of publications you can grab for a few bucks loaded with images of Ruth, Dimaggio, Gehrig, etc.

Or the ultra rare jockstrap box theory might be right?

Incredible find! I knew someone out there would find that cover!

My guess now is someone back in the day made a scrapbook with cardboard pages in which one side they glued this World’s Fair cover on and the other side had these late 30s baseball images lined up. They were then cut individually and eventually made their way on eBay, marketed as “1940 Topps”.

[Butch7999]

Are we missing something, or have we not yet determined the actual original source of the little trapezoidal images?

[nebboy]

Great detective work oldeboo. Net54 is the best.

[nebboy]

Found a current thread with a photo of these cards as a part of 1937 BF-UNC Felt Pennant. Ctownboy was correct.