Early bowman baseball: Artist

[skooter]

Do you have a copy of the article, or know where I can get one. I would love to read it!

[tedzan]

This Bowman article is titled "The Case of the Mysterious 1949 Bowmans". It is a 6-page (well-researched) story that resolved
the existing confusion (at that time) regarding the dozen (or so) variations in this Bowman set.

Provide me your mailing address and I will send you a color xerox copy.

Email me directly........tedzan11@comcast.net

No PM's please.


TED Z

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

FYI, out of the three late Charles Steinbachers from Pennsylvania, only two could have likely fit the age criteria to be the artist in question. Unfortunately, both passed away in the 1960's (1962 and 1966). It would be interesting to discover the names of other Bowman artists. Does anyone have any leads?

[tedzan]

Jodi

The Charles Steinbacher (art Director) of the George Moll Advertising Agency that I have noted in my prior post here met with an untimely death in 1966.
He was the lead artist who designed many of the 1938 "Horrors of War" cards issued by GUM, Inc. (Blony bubble gum....the former Trademark of Bowman
Gum). This very dramatic and exceptionally artistic set of 240 Non-Sports cards depict the eventual horrors of WWII. This set of bubble gum cards was
the predecessor to the 1939-1941 Play Ball BB issues.

Another Bowman card artist was Tom King. My long-time hobby friend, Jack Weaver (professional artist), and I met with Tom back in the early 1990's at
his home. Tom and his wife (also a former Moll Agency employee) were a wealth of knowledge regarding the "good ole days" working for George Moll and
J. Warren Bowman.

With some amount of research, I can probably find more of the 12 artists that created a lot of the Bowman Sports and Non-Sports cards....no guaratees,
though.


Jodi
If you are interested, I have a newspaper article on Charles Steinbacher from The Philadelphia Inquirer (dated Sept 23, 1993) which I can send you.


TED Z

[Chris-Counts]

So are the four cards pictured '49 Bowman proofs? They seem like crude prototypes for the '50 Bowman set ...

[tedzan]

The upper pix is that of Dave Philley. This is not the example used to create his 1949 card.

The 2nd pix is that of Ned Garver. This is the example used to create his 1949 and 1950 cards.

I'm not certain about the FB pix.


TED Z

[enoch47]

the top card is actually nelson fox, the second is garver, the third is leon clarke with a usc jersey, and the fourth is Ron Kramer from michigan. These are a few of the proofs I own from era 50-56 bowman football and baseball. I am just trying to figure out were these came from, they have bowman all over them as far as look and feel, I have been down tons of roads looking for information, Im now looking at artist to find out time frame and to compare....since these are 90 -95 percent painted, it is just another chance to find out more about these....

[Chris-Counts]

Jodi, not only did Hires use one of the three 1956 Bowman prototypes for its 1958 design, but many of the photos appear to be outtakes from the 1955 Bowman set, which unlike almost any other set, primarily used photos taken in Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium, presumably in 1954 ...

[enoch47]

The cards I have, I believe were some some proofs made by bowman in 56. I will show a pic with a 55 bowman and the proof I have, I think the baseball pics that I added are cards from 56 as well......I think bowman was warming up to a college football issue sometimes before they sold out.....take a look...its also why the scan was of fox since these are were probably from 56

[enoch47]

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