April Pickup Thread

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

as I was able to steal this extremely rare 1971 Fleer Update #73 (from Good Humor trucks in 1978, highlighting the unforgettable 1975 World Series)....

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I'm confused. How can a 1971 Fleer Update card highlight the 1975 World Series? And did the Good Humor trucks prowling your neighbourhood typically sell Baseball and other cards?

[Balticfox]

So a package arrived yesterday with 14 Topps 1955 Baseball cards including these:





Is the tremendous variance of back stock from nearly white to cream to beige simply due to heat and moisture related toning or did Topps actually use different card stock printing these on different days?

Plus 26 Topps 1957 Baseball cards including these:

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

How can a 1971 Fleer Update card highlight the 1975 World Series? And did the Good Humor trucks prowling your neighbourhood typically sell Baseball and other cards?

Here's an enlarged Robert Laughlin SCD ad from 3/15/79, with some basic info about the update from the previous year (1978)...

SCD3.15.79.laughlinad-WSupdate.jpg

Info on the actual release is really tough to find.
I still don't know if packs of Fleer cards (with the updated ones inside) were sold by Good Humor trucks, or if only the seven new updates were somehow distributed by them?
Don't have definitive answers, so the ad is but a partial glimpse into the marketing efforts that summer.

[ASF123]

Interesting. That makes me curious as to whether Robert Laughlin had ever seen a photo of Roberto Clemente.