Interesting eBay Auctions: Oddball San Diego Chargers Items
November 24th, 2009 | Published in Football Card Trivia, Interesting eBay Auctions, Oddball | 2 Comments
eBay seller “batnbal” is auctioning off some old San Diego Chargers items that I’ve never seen before. I thought I’d point them out.
1961 Golden Tulip Chargers cards were distributed in bags of Golden Tulip potato chips. As I wrote in K is for KDKA–and Other Regional Sets, you could send in five Golden Tulip cards of the same player for a 8×10 photo of a San Diego Charger. The cards themselves are scarce, and this is the first time I’ve seen any of the photos. The seller has two: the Charlie Flowers pictured here, and Ron Nery. I have not seen the full list of photos, but there are 22 cards in the Golden Tulip set, so perhaps there are also 22 photos. If you sent in five Ron Nery cards, would you get a Ron Nery poster? Sounds logical, but I have no idea.
The seller also has three 1962 Golden Arrow Dairy San Diego Chargers milk bottle caps up for auction: Jim Bates, Emil Karras, and Dick Harris. These aren’t pretty: they’re milk-stained, and they have staples in them. I suspect they’re rare, though–who would have kept them?–and they’re sure to sell to a hardcore Chargers fan or a collector who’s gotta have it all. The seller included a little write-up for each player, so it’s worth checking out the auctions just for that.
May 19th, 2010 at 9:18 PM (#)
I was going through some old school papers that my mom gave me when I finally moved out of the house and found a certificate titled San Diego Chargers Chargettes Contract. There is no date of when it was made but it reads- This is to certify that Sheri Johnson is a member in good standing(sitting, lying and crawling, too) of the SAN DIEGO CHARGERS football team, which is herein after called the “Club”.
Said member is hereinafter called the “Chargette”, Recipients of this certificate is hereinafter called “Supervisors” (or, the “sleepless Ones”). The agency issuing this certificate is hereinafter called THE GOLDEN ARROW DAIRY.
There is more but I don’t want to type in the whole thing. It has my birth date and is signed by a Barrow Hilton, President, Sid Gillman, Head coach general manager and Joe Foss, Commissioner, AFL.
Can you tell me anything about this certificate. It has the Goldie seal (a picture of a cow)on it and the Charger’s symbol.
Thank you
Sheri Johnson
May 20th, 2010 at 3:54 AM (#)
Hi Sheri,
No, I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about the certificate–I take it that you don’t remember receiving it? It sounds pretty amusing. If you send me a scan, I can post it here–maybe another reader will know something about it.
Mike