Interesting historical Goudey Co. sales data

[GeoPoto]

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[Spike]

The back of Goudey's 1939 premiums shows an important detail, "Diamond Stars Gum." It appears that after National Chicle went backrupt in 1937 and sold their assets to Goudey later that year, Goudey repurposed these leftovers (?) by adding their name later on. Those original how-to images on the backs of these premiums all came from National Chicle's "Rabbit Maranville" Batter-Up inserts, so it's fair to guess Goudey tried to repurpose other things they bought from Chicle's bankruptcy sale in future work. I did a card-by-card examination of 1938 Goudey's cartoons to see whether that set originated inside National Chicle.

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Originally Posted by GeoPoto

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[Leon]

Work with me on the 1942 Goudeys. Leftover 1941s?
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[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Leon

Work with me on the 1942 Goudeys. Leftover 1941s?
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I believe Leon that is the thought on the 1942 Baseball Card sales data in the original post. It seems that Goudey likely continued to sell the 1941 cards to distributers in 1942, and that this probably occurred for other issue years as well. The more modern analogy of Topps that Matthew mentioned in his previous post is also a distinct possibility.

Maybe not an exact analogy, but I grew up with the repackaged Topps 'Fun Packs' bags of year or two old misc. sports and non-sports card packs back in the late 1970's. Just a fun memory.

Brian (and back to the prewar subject on hand, here are some of Hubbell's off-kilter quality control killer friends. I believe seeing cards like these are what actually killed Goudey's quality control guy in 1941, and they never replaced him)

[Spike]

I love how you can line up multiple 1941s on those sloppy cuts into a near-complete row. RIP to those quality control guys.

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Brian (and back to the prewar subject on hand, here are some of Hubbell's off-kilter quality control killer friends. I believe seeing cards like these are what actually killed Goudey's quality control guy in 1941, and they never replaced him)