Show An Unusual Vintage Card - 1950s and Earlier

[Leon]

1936 Kroger Bread card...

[Shankweather]

[packs]

I've had this one for a while too. Julia St. Clair played for several semi-pro women's teams in the 1910s including the Bloomer Girls and the All American Girls. I know there's at least one other one out there in the world, but I've never been able to tell how it was distributed or where:

[Zach Wheat]

1930-32 Fleer Whiz Bang

[Leon]

Shown before, but most collectors would have no clue what these are.

[Jobu]

That includes me!!!

Originally Posted by Leon

Shown before, but most collectors would have no clue what these are.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by Jobu

That includes me!!!

Ditto!

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Leon

Shown before, but most collectors would have no clue what these are.

"Star Candy" was first name that came to my mind, yet turned out to be a different B&W issue of that era. As noted by another commenter, "Home Run Candy" appears to be right.

https://prewarcards.com/2016/10/19/1...ss-game-cards/

[Leon]

PSA didn't know. My good hobby friend and member here, John Rumirez, (hey John) shed some light on these. They are 1936 Home Run Candy cards...a little larger than the S and S game card centers, which these look like.

The bottom cards were from my previous collection, showing a Home Run Candy back....

Originally Posted by Spike

"Star Candy" was first name that came to my mind, yet turned out to be a different B&W issue of that era. As noted by another commenter, "Home Run Candy" appears to be right.

https://prewarcards.com/2016/10/19/1...ss-game-cards/

[danmckee]

Originally Posted by Leon

Shown before, but most collectors would have no clue what these are.

I have about a dozen of these ice cream cards. Lipset auctioned a full set once.

[Neal]

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[MikeGarcia]

.. On EBAY right now : eBay item number:365170740365


..Or : " Do not hire 'part-time evenings/weekends' high school girls to work in your grading division." (The fingernail-polish-remover fumes affect the judgement skills.)

[brianp-beme]

Instead of unusual, I like to refer to these Centennial Flour cards as non-usual, as they are from a couple of the few card sets that were issued during US involvement in World War 2, and are fairly uncommon. The cool Kats card (plays well with others despite his severe charley-horse) is from the 1943 set, while PCL Hall of Famer Gyselman (not to be confused with Theodor 'Dr.' Seuss Geisel) is from the 1944 set.

Brian

[Leon]

This is unusual.

[Exhibitman]

I was set up at a show in LA about 30 years ago when a complete run of Centennial Flour cards walked in. I eventually rounded up a Standard Catalog and we identified the cards but the seller then wanted the NM column price per card. He left with the cards.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I was set up at a show in LA about 30 years ago when a complete run of Centennial Flour cards walked in. I eventually rounded up a Standard Catalog and we identified the cards but the seller then wanted the NM column price per card. He left with the cards.

That would have been a nice pickup...of course buying at the NM book price at that time would have felt like diving in the deep end of a very shallow pool.

My examples shown above have holes, but when I got them eight years ago from Ebay they came at a very nice price (about $2.00 each, which included shipping).


Brian

[Leon]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.. On EBAY right now : eBay item number:365170740365


..Or : " Do not hire 'part-time evenings/weekends' high school girls to work in your grading division." (The fingernail-polish-remover fumes affect the judgement skills.)

Thanks Mike! We'll see what this is in a few days. Worst case, I fill a hole in for R313A. Best case, it comes in and looks exactly like it does in the photo.

[MikeGarcia]

..Everyone who's ever been over the years buying pre-war "lots", bunches , groups , "collections ", junk drawers etc. etc. has a pile of cards which have undergone uh , personalization by a previous owner :




But if the 1936 National Chicle Fine Pens R313 Guru ,our own Tim N. , verifies that Hank as eligible for a number grade as it is , instead of "A Evid Trim" , then I'm rich . RICH I TELL YA !! And I owe it all to the kids in the basement at PSA .

[MikeGarcia]

.. Sadly , few parents nowadays name their baby boys Buzz or Fabian anymore.



On a happier note though , nowadays very few boys buy cigars just so they can redeem the wrappers for pictures of their favorite local minor league ballplayers with really swell names .

[Leon]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.. On EBAY right now : eBay item number:365170740365


..Or : " Do not hire 'part-time evenings/weekends' high school girls to work in your grading division." (The fingernail-polish-remover fumes affect the judgement skills.)

Alas, it wasn't as it looked like in the pic and will be going back. Plus the trimmed borders....but I was really hoping for some one-off real photo R313a. I have seen things like that (maybe not exactly) happen before.

Here's another seldom seen card.
Mack, smoking a stogey!