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How many of you still use dry cleaners? And those of you who do, how many of you save the hanger bags? Well, here's one that survived in someone's closet for over fifty years!
It's a circa 1953 Spic and Span Dry Cleaners Pictorial Shirt Covering. The company had a licensing agreement with the local Braves team from at least 1953 to 1957. The bag shows 12 of the 13 known Warmuth designs in the 1954 card set.
Baseball cards and bitcoin. Can never have enough of either.
Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Peters Meats supplied hot dogs for Twins games and released this 26-card Midwest regional set in 1961 to celebrate the Twin’s first years in the city (after moving from Washington, where they were the Senators). The cards are pretty thick and heavily waxed since they were supposed to be used as packaging for meat products.
As the hobby library guy, I’ve always liked the advertisement from the Twins 1961 yearbook.
I’ve documented the set in detail on the oddball archive here: https://www.postwarcards.com/1961-peters-meats-minnesota-twins-baseball-card-set-and-checklist/
📣📰Newsletter 66 Is Out!
🏈 An Exhibit Supply Co. Football Card Machine Sign Advertising Display
✍️ Great Hobby Writing
📦 Another Incredible Unopened Consignment At Heritage Auctions
🏀 447 Fake 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Cards
⚾️ Something’s Weird About The 1970 Topps Baseball Wax Box
https://postwarcards.substack.com/p/the-post-war-cards-newsletter-66
Yesterday, I published The Bittersweet Tale Of Casey Stengel’s 1965 Dugan Brothers Baseball Card on the blog.
Here are some photos from the article and a link ICYMI:
Lots of chatter lately spurred on from Nat Turner mentioning that PSA had rejected a ton of fake 86 Fleer Jordan RCs this year.
It’s nothing new, and the fakes date back well into the early 90s. More about em in tomorrow’s newsletter.
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One of the busiest but fittingly designed boxes from the ‘50s has got to be the 1959 Nu-Cards Rock & Roll box!
More from the offering on the archive: https://www.postwarcards.com/1959-nu-cards-rock-roll-unopened-products/
I published an article about the 1952 Shelby Bicycles Yogi Berra Promo Card yesterday.
Here's an example of one of the surviving examples, the type 1 photo (also used for the 1950 Bowman and Drake's cards), and a link in case you missed it: https://www.postwarcards.com/a-rare-gem-the-1952-shelby-bicycles-yogi-berra-promotional-card/
New article! The Bittersweet Tale Of Casey Stengel's 1965 Dugan Brothers Baseball Card
In this piece, I cover the sad tale of how Stengel’s managerial career ended and the tough 1965 baseball card associated with it👇
The 1985 O-Pee-Chee set is a 396-card cut-down version of the 792-card Topps set made for Canada with a higher ratio of cards from the two Canadian teams.
From a design perspective, I’ve always loved the OPC logo on the boxes. Also, does anyone have a photo of a 1985 OPC Wax case?
More unopened photos on the archive: https://www.postwarcards.com/1985-opc-baseball-unopened-products/
New article! A Rare Gem: The 1952 Shelby Bicycles Yogi Berra Promotional Card
In this one, I spotlight an incredible promotional issue, its Type 1 photo, and a bunch of advertisements featuring Berra, too👇
https://www.postwarcards.com/a-rare-gem-the-1952-shelby-bicycles-yogi-berra-promotional-card/
Card Show History!
Duke Snider, Eddie Murray, Casey Weldon, and…a surprise guest!
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Have a happy weekend you uncanny maniacs!
Bell Brand Chips followed up their 1959 Rams set with another in 1960. The cards were also inserted into specially marked bags of Bell’s snacks (potato and corn chips) within a cello pack.
The 1960 39-card set (catalog designation F387-2) used the same basic design on the front and back of the cards as the 1959 set, with a few minor variations.
The really interesting thing about this set, though, is the Gene Selawski short print; read all about it on the oddball archive: https://www.postwarcards.com/1960-bell-brand-los-angeles-rams-football-card-set-and-checklist/
1963 Monster Flip Movies “singles” aren't going to run you too much, but the two unopened boxes I've shared on the archive sold for $6222 in September 2017 and $4740 in May 2013. With unopened "inflation," it's hard to guestimate what one would sell for today!
Check 'em out on the archive: https://www.postwarcards.com/1963-monster-flip-movies-unopened-products/
