1934 GOLD Medal Food

[Peter_Spaeth]

http://ebay.oldjudge.com/archive/200811/sets/56/

Lot 56. R313A Gold Medal “Extended Set” of 6. The Gold Medal set is generally considered to be an extended World Series set of R313 Fine Pens featuring 6 members of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers, opponents in the 1934 World Series. For reasons that remain a mystery, 6 additional cards were produced of 6 additional players which are remarkably rare with only a few copies known of each. Possibly the first time all six have ever been offered. The six players are Al Simmons (excellent front with some album page remains of the rear), Chuck Klein (hairline 1” crease and with some album page remains of the rear), William Rogell (excellent), George Earnshaw (near excellent),Odell Hale (excellent), and Joe Vosmik (some creasing in two corners on front, and used as a postcard on the rear. Mailed in 1935 from Minneapolis.

[fkw]

I just looked at the 2006 Beckett big book and it has a list of 22 cards for Gold Medal Foods cards.

Starting a Checklist of the second type of R313A cards

Beside the 12 more common W.S. cards (6 Tigers/6 Cardinals)
there are...


(from the 2006 Beckett guide)
1.Earl Averill
2.George Blaeholder
3.Irving Burns
4.Bruce Campbell
5.Tex Carleton
6.Odell Hale
7.Mel Harder
8.Jack Knott
9.Joe Vosmik
10.Bill Walker

(add these from Lipsets auction description)
11.Chuck Klein
12.Al Simmons
13.?William Rogell? (is this the common W.S. one, or a different pose?)
14.George Earnshaw


Any more??

[timn1]

All the cards mentioned so far in this thread are checklisted in my Old Cardboard article, as well as four players from the Des Moines Demons and a Red Faber which I have never seen but have been told exists by an ultra-reliable source. The 1935 envelope and "extended set" is news to me, however. I had assumed that all the non-Tigers and Cardinals players were from 1933. I'll try to look into the Lipset contention.

Incidentally, I don't mean to sound cranky, but if you have the Old Cardboard issues in question (#6-7) you might want to look back at them before posting anything more in the thread, since my articles in those issues represent the complete knowledge on these sets as of 2007. I'm not sure anything definitively new has been added since then--

Tim

[aelefson]

Hi-
I hope I am not derailing this thread, but there has not been one on this set in a while. I traded for the Dean "postcard" example scanned below. I am sure this was done at home, as the only information on the back is a stamped address and stamp. If it helps this postcard shows these were most likely available in the Minneapolis area in 1934.
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com

[fkw]

Last post by me...

Only reason I started a checklist on the R313A type2 is so MAYBE this info can be added to the SCD Standard Catalog in the future.

Beckett tried, but they combined both sets....

I dont have #6 issue of Old Cardboard with me, so I didnt have that info from 2006.

Sorry to bump a post a few times over the popular Barkman and REA posts, but this stuff (along with correcting the screwed up checklist of R314 type4) interests me far more than that stuff.


aloha

[cliftons8]

Frank,
I appreciate the effort. I am new to this set and was wanting to know if my set was complete or if there is more. You certainly helped. I still have questions, that I guess won't be asked or answered.


Mike

[Stuke1976]

Interesting that the cards are being labeled Gold Medal Foods. On the Wheaties box it says the parent company's name is Gold Medal Flour. On one box it says, for recipes, write to Betty Crocker, Gold Medal Flour, Minneapolis, MN. Later became General Mills or General Foods. Either name works, not sure why the change is needed.