1961 Post Cereal Cards With Box

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Thanks, Wayne, I'm looking at it seriously. I'm not a card guy, but I love the set and the fact I have the box to go with it. Incidentally, the article I linked in my original post seems to show both Allisons in unperforated form, which if true would bolster the contention that there was indeed a second printing with the "Minnesota Twins" correction. It should be easy enough to prove one way or the other by finding one or more confirmed hand-cut Twins cards with the updated team name.

I'm pretty sure the 2nd picture in the article is a company perforated version which has been trimmed, so you can no longer see the perforations. That happened a lot back in the old days.
Now a 1961 Post company card is expected to still show the perforations.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by cannonballsun

I'm pretty sure the 2nd picture in the article is a company perforated version which has been trimmed, so you can no longer see the perforations. That happened a lot back in the old days.
Now a 1961 Post company card is expected to still show the perforations.

I guess the only way to tell then is the weight of the cardboard, the cereal box variety being heavier than the company cards. So if someone came up with a cereal box "Minnesota Twins," we would know for certain there was a second printing of cereal boxes with "corrections." If nobody can find one, we would know there was only one printing of those.

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I guess the only way to tell then is the weight of the cardboard, the cereal box variety being heavier than the company cards. So if someone came up with a cereal box "Minnesota Twins," we would know for certain there was a second printing of cereal boxes with "corrections." If nobody can find one, we would know there was only one printing of those.

Exactly

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I guess the only way to tell then is the weight of the cardboard, the cereal box variety being heavier than the company cards. So if someone came up with a cereal box "Minnesota Twins," we would know for certain there was a second printing of cereal boxes with "corrections." If nobody can find one, we would know there was only one printing of those.

Hank, I don't believe you will find boxes with the corrections, but I wish you luck. In addition to the Twins, there were a handful of players with team changes found only as perforated cards, and some bio info was changed on a few cards in perforated only form. Also, both Estrada and Stobbs were issued on the team sheets only--Stobbs as a Minnesota Twin. So you if you find any of these other changes on boxes or panels, please let us know, as that would be evidence that maybe all changes eventually made it to the grocery stores.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Hank, I don't believe you will find boxes with the corrections, but I wish you luck. In addition to the Twins, there were a handful of players with team changes found only as perforated cards, and some bio info was changed on a few cards in perforated only form. Also, both Estrada and Stobbs were issued on the team sheets only--Stobbs as a Minnesota Twin. So you if you find any of these other changes on boxes or panels, please let us know, as that would be evidence that maybe all changes eventually made it to the grocery stores.

If you've already checked enough to satisfy yourself there was only one printing of the cereal boxes, that's good enough for me. That would leave all the variations (something like 357 in a set with all those, right?) coming in the team sheets, which would have been much easier to change almost real time as they were being printed according to the orders coming in. So there were 160 cereal box cards, 40 that were only available in company cards, and 157 variations in the company cards. What an interesting set!