Truly scarce postwar cards

[ALR-bishop]

Always enjoy seeing your salesman samples Anthony. Almost as much as your pack display

[ValKehl]

I have only these 2 salesman samples. I'm always looking for any of these that include either Pete Runnels or Mickey Vernon.

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Lummis

[Marckus99]

‘59 Armour Meats

[John1941]

Mark - love the minor leaguers!

[paul]

Here are a couple of Seaver rarities from better known sets -- the 1973 Topps comic and 1973 Topps pinup.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by paul

Here are a couple of Seaver rarities from better known sets -- the 1973 Topps comic and 1973 Topps pinup.

Outstanding! I basically gave up on my Topps "Seaver as a Met" collection as completion was virtually impossible thanks to those two.

[ValKehl]

Byron "By" Speece, a submarine pitcher, began his pro career in the minors in 1922 at age 25 and finished his career with the Seattle Rainiers in 1945 at age 48! I collect his cards because he pitched for the 1924 WS Champion Washington Senators, his only year with this team. After the 1924 season, Clark Griffith shrewdly traded Speece and another "no-name" player to Cleveland for Stan Coveleski who greatly helped the Senators win the 1925 AL pennant. He pitched for Cleveland in 1925 and very briefly in 1926 and for the Phillies in 1930. All of the rest of his years were spent in the minors.

[raulus]

Try to suspend your amazement, but this time it's not Mays.

53/54 Briggs Meats Grasso. Today PSA shows Pop 1, but that's because they haven't updated for this one yet, with the grade just posting today.

Fun fact: grasso means "fat" in Italian. As the saying goes in Rome, "after a fat pope comes a skinny one", although Newton was never the Bishop of Rome.

[Big Red Machine]

Here are some hard-to-find items from my Johnny Bench collection.

[raulus]

Time for another Mays Bazooka box. This time from 1961, although it’s missing the tabs, so woefully short of a truly complete box. PSA pop=1.

[ksfarmboy]

1964 Orioles Martin Family Night.

[Lucas00]

A personal favorite, 1964 boy scouts world champion cardinals. I love the idea of cards gives out as an incentive to join the boy scouts. Especially only scouts in the St. Louis area. Makes for a super rare type card 60 years later.

[Peter_Spaeth]

67 Bench is a grail.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Not sure how HTF this one is, but 65 Team Issue Carlton.

[paul]

This is kind of a companion to Lucas' 1964 Boy Scouts card. It's a 1969 Boy Scouts card of Tom Seaver. I don't have a scan of the back, but it urges scouts to sign up their friends, just like Lucas' card. But it doesn't offer any reward. I guess the Boy Scouts got stingy by 1969, or maybe they were just more generous in St. Louis.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by paul

This is kind of a companion to Lucas' 1964 Boy Scouts card. It's a 1969 Boy Scouts card of Tom Seaver. I don't have a scan of the back, but it urges scouts to sign up their friends, just like Lucas' card. But it doesn't offer any reward. I guess the Boy Scouts got stingy by 1969, or maybe they were just more generous in St. Louis.

They should've added "You'll get nothing...and like it!!!" to the layout.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by paul

This is kind of a companion to Lucas' 1964 Boy Scouts card. It's a 1969 Boy Scouts card of Tom Seaver. I don't have a scan of the back, but it urges scouts to sign up their friends, just like Lucas' card. But it doesn't offer any reward. I guess the Boy Scouts got stingy by 1969, or maybe they were just more generous in St. Louis.

I should've mentioned the front, it says: To a world champion scout. Good luck. Red Schoendienst.

Each cardinal wrote their own sentence on the front

[ALR-bishop]

But you are still checking Larry

[sflayank]

What am I checking for?

[REG1976]

1970 topps super Johnny Bench square corner

[raulus]

Time for some Post complete panels. This one from 1961. Basically the complete backside of the cereal box. PSA has this one down as pop 5.

[Exhibitman]

This Ryan premium is about 5 x 7 and tough as heck to find.



All the Rodine HOF postcards and premiums are rare; if anyone has any others I'd love to see them and finish the checklist:





One of a trio of really tough 1951 Hallicrafters premiums (the others are Rosen and Lemon as singles):



This one is real interesting (well, to me). The first time I found one of these, I thought it was some sort of Exhibit proof. It has the same artwork and is not a reprint but oversized and on lighter stock.



Fast-forward several years and I find another, with a very enlightening twist:



This one is post-marked in February 1948 from Brooklyn (where I guess Holmes lived), 2x signed and inscribed by Holmes. The ink on the front doesn't match the ink on the back. I am now thinking it is some sort of autograph request mail reply card that Holmes had ESCO manufacture for him.