Early rack packs

[Rich Klein]

Way back in the day a friend of mine swore he bought rak packs of final series 1957 cards

[jmoran19]

1964 sell sheet showing a rak pak

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jmoran19

1964 sell sheet showing a rak pak:

Wow! That's the first time I've seen ten cent packs from 1964! How many cards were in each pack and did the packs include gum?

[jmoran19]

I believe grocery trays started in 1960 or 61, pretty sure I have a 61 sell sheet advertising a tray.

In general 5 cent wax packs thru 1960 had 6 cards, then 61 thru 69 had 5 cards. Late 50’s/1960’s Cello packs usually had 12 cards and no gum thru 1969, exception is the 1969 blue 10 cards 10 cents cello. 1970 baseball cellos jumped up to 33 cards and the first time gum was 8ncluded with cellos was 1970 football.

[tulsaboy]

Man, I love the graphics of the 1963 header. So cool!
kevin

[toppcat]

The NSB Archive book shows a Bowman Stars of NBC TV rak-like pack, circa 1953.

[swarmee]

That's the set that gave us the RC of Christopher (a.k.a. Ronnie) Walken.


1953 Bowman Television and Radio Stars of the NBC - [Base] #58 - Ronnie Walken
Courtesy of COMC.com

[jmoran19]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Way back in the day a friend of mine swore he bought rak packs of final series 1957 cards

Sounds legit, I have this pic of a 57 FB rak