An Old Newbie

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by JCRedbird

Been following a lot of threads on this site for years but never posted. I'm recently retired and big Cardinals collector. I'm trying to organize years of collecting. I've got a photo of Musial that I have no idea what it might be. It's the same image as his Berk Ross and Bond Bread cards. It's larger than a Bond Bread premium. It measures 8x10 and is on thin glossy stock. Any ideas?Attachment 506902

Welcome aboard,

My guess is that your Musial photo is from the Team Packs that were available in the 1940's at the Ballpark Stadiums.

I have some of these 25-player photos packs of the Yankees, Giants, and Indians.

BOND BREAD, TIP TOP BREAD and BOWMAN GUM created many of their BB cards from these photos.

EXAMPLES......




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TED Z

T206 Reference
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[JCRedbird]

Yeah, this one's got me stumped. You'd think if this was a team pack, other examples would have popped up over the years. The Cards issued some Dear Fan postcards and did some regional stuff in the early 50's but I've not seen any team packs of them till the late 50's. I've seen several examples for the Indians and Yanks. I figured since they didn't own Sportsmans Park till 1954 maybe they didn't do a lot of souvenir stuff at the ballpark. Who knows. Cool picks you attached. I read an article on the Transogram cards from 1969 and 70. I remember buying those little statues at Kmart. Didn't realize that almost all of the transogram cards are repeats of the 68 Topps cards. There's a few exceptions but most came from a Topps card.