Interesting eBay Auction: 1969 Glendale Stamps and Album

November 19th, 2009  |  Published in Interesting eBay Auctions, Oddball  |  1 Comment

This is the first time I’ve seen these offered together: a full set of 1969 Glendale Stamps, still on panels, with the accompanying album. The seller, cocicoco, has lots of oddball items like these, and it is fun to browse their football card listings.

There are 312 stamps in the Glendale Stamp set, 12 for each of the 26 NFL and AFL teams. The stamps came on 26 panels of 12 stamps each. 24 of the panels could be called team panels, because they each had 11 cards from one team and 1 card from another. The remaining two panels contained stars from multiple teams. The Redskins and Falcons did not have team panels; their stamps were scattered among the other team panels. Why the odd distribution of teams among panels? I can only guess that it was a marketing ploy, to ensure that you needed at least two panels for a complete team set.

Because the Glendale set is bigger than the Topps football card issues of the time, the Glendale set contains a few players that did not appear on cards. I always like that: seeing players on cards–or in this case stamps–whom I have not seen before. The Glendale set also includes a pre-rookie stamp of O.J. Simpson. When I get one, I will add it to my pre-rookie cards page.

I don’t yet have the stamps in the Vintage Football Card Gallery, but the Cowboys Guide site shows all of the Cowboys stamps, and the Redskins Football Card Museum shows all of the Redskins. The Cowboys Guide site has a nice picture of the album, too. (The album says 1970, though. I wonder why?) PSA’s web site has the full list of stamps.

Tags: 1969 Glendale Stamps, o.j. simpson

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  1. Gordon Frassinelli says:

    January 21st, 2010 at 11:02 PM (#)

    I own this picture book from my childhood.
    The book is complete with pics of every player from every team. Thanks for putting together ths site, it took me a long time to find out anything about my book.

    question: how many of these have you seen, and how much do you figure its worth?

    Gordie Frassinelli
    Stafford Springs, CT

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