WWII, And Prior, Bread Cards

[Eggoman]

I know Leon has heard this story, but few others likely have...

A 1,000,000 years ago when I was a Punk-Ass kid with more smarts than money, I was asked to set up at a Coin Show as a "Guest Token Baseball Card Dealer"!

A Coin Dealer brought me a STACK of Greiner's - a complete set plus a couple of duplicates if memory serves, but it may not...

We couldn't find them in "The Big Book" as only prices for Tharp's were listed.

I tried to explain that Tharp's and York's and Sweetman's and Greiner's, and Yuengling's, etc. were all essentially the same set - just different advertisers like Tobacco cards.

But as I said, I was only a Punk-Ass kid trying to deal with a Grown Man!

Anyway, we could NOT agree on a price for Lot, but he sold me the only duplicates that he had - the McGraw and Speaker that I still have today.

I lost touch with the Coin Dealer and have NO IDEA what happened to the rest of the Greiner's cards that he had.

Nobody wanted those UGLY BLACK & WHITE cards anyway...

It was this "Near Find" that brought me to NET54....

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Eggoman

I know Leon has heard this story, but few others likely have...

A 1,000,000 years ago when I was a Punk-Ass kid with more smarts than money, I was asked to set up at a Coin Show as a "Guest Token Baseball Card Dealer"!

A Coin Dealer brought me a STACK of Greiner's - a complete set plus a couple of duplicates if memory serves, but it may not...

We couldn't find them in "The Big Book" as only prices for Tharp's were listed.

I tried to explain that Tharp's and York's and Sweetman's and Greiner's, and Yuengling's, etc. were all essentially the same set - just different advertisers like Tobacco cards.

But as I said, I was only a Punk-Ass kid trying to deal with a Grown Man!

Anyway, we could NOT agree on a price for Lot, but he sold me the only duplicates that he had - the McGraw and Speaker that I still have today.

I lost touch with the Coin Dealer and have NO IDEA what happened to the rest of the Greiner's cards that he had.

Nobody wanted those UGLY BLACK & WHITE cards anyway...

It was this "Near Find" that brought me to NET54....

Cool story Greg...no wonder why the Greiner's card are so elusive, and why I hadn't seen them before. Someone either has a whole set stashed away, or this set got lost for all eternity.

Brian


Brian

[Brian Van Horn]

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[ValKehl]

Brian, I'm lovin' your H-to-H cards. To me, they are one of the sweetest, if not the sweetest, ad-back cards.

Haffner's Bread cards are pretty scarce. I'd sure love to obtain one of Sam Rice.

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Brian, I'm lovin' your H-to-H cards. To me, they are one of the sweetest, if not the sweetest, ad-back cards.

Haffner's Bread cards are pretty scarce. I'd sure love to obtain one of Sam Rice.

Val,

Thank you for the kind words and I love that Haffner's Walter Johnson.

[Eggoman]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Cool story Greg...no wonder why the Greiner's card are so elusive, and why I hadn't seen them before. Someone either has a whole set stashed away, or this set got lost for all eternity.

Brian

Thanks Brian - I'm AFRAID the latter, but one can always hope that there's STILL a set in the Niagara Falls, NY Area...

[brass_rat]

There are some awesome cards in this thread. Holmes to Homes, Tayto Loaf, Holsum Bread...

Dan, you posted one of my favorite sets!

[ValKehl]

It's time for some American-Maid Bread!

[yanksfan09]

D381 Ferguson and Fleischmann (Grover is a Ferguson too)

[Brian Van Horn]

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