Hoarding Thread 2011 - Show em if you dare !

[cubsfan102003]

Matt,

I'm not very familiar with the 1948 Leaf set. Why are the colors so different from one to the next? The hats look so much different, as does most of the red color on both cards. The jersey's are different too. It appears as though the seams down the side, and on the shoulder are visible on the PSA 7, but not on the PSA 8. Are there variations within the set that just aren't noted on the PSA flip?

Thanks,
Tom

[FrankWakefield]

The 7 is out of register. Look at the black boxes for the name; the 8 is ever so slightly off to the left (as it lines up with the blue background), and the 7 is off to the right. Still, nice cards. And one great, gentleman ballplayer.

[tedzan]

Here are some more of these color variations. I have many more of them. LEAF Gum was notorious for these color errors.







NOTE......They are not a 1948 issue. The Grading Co's have miss-labeled them.


TED Z

[FrankWakefield]

Yes, 1949.

[Exhibitman]

Thanks for posting those pics, Tom. I thought I had a habit until I saw that...

I collect every example that I can find of certain Exhibit cards but if I said which I'd have to kill every reader, which could take years and cost millions of dollars to achieve...

[MBMiller25]

I'm not very familiar with the 1948 Leaf set. Why are the colors so different from one to the next? The hats look so much different, as does most of the red color on both cards. The jersey's are different too. It appears as though the seams down the side, and on the shoulder are visible on the PSA 7, but not on the PSA 8. Are there variations within the set that just aren't noted on the PSA flip?

I've been beaten to the punch in regards to your question as to why the coloring is so different on each of these cards. There are variations and the set is notorious for this.

As for the flip being labelled 1948, I can only think that PSA does this because the first series of these cards was released in December 1948. I would like to see them label this card 1948-49 Leaf myself.

[tedzan]

Matt

Regarding your......
"As for the flip being labelled 1948, I can only think that PSA does this because the first series of these cards was released in
December 1948. I would like to see them label this card 1948-49 Leaf myself. "

Pardon me for beinng difficult, but where did you get this...." first series of these cards was released in December 1948 ? "

I, and many old dinosaurs my age (nationwide), collected these LEAF BB cards as kids in the Spring of 1949. And, NONE of us
recall them ever been available at any time in 1948.
As late as December of 1948, we were still getting the 2nd series of LEAF FB cards.

Trust me, the 1st series of LEAF BB cards (49) were available in early Spring of '49. The 2nd (or scarce) series (of 49 cards)
were available in the Summer of '49....and, only in Boston, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio.


TED Z

[MBMiller25]

Ted, My information could be bad, but here is where I got it from. My wife's aunt's husband's father was a salesman for Topps from Day 1. The entire family gets together on major holidays, and of course, I gravitate to him because of his affiliation with Topps/baseball card and all the stories he has to tell. He knows about my love for Stan Musial, and during a conversation regarding my Musial cards, and my love for the 48-49 Leaf card, he told me about the first release going out in December 1948. Again, he's an old guy and might be giving me bad information, but that's where the information came from.