Interesting eBay Auctions: 1961 Lake to Lake Packers Print Blocks

January 10th, 2010  |  Published in Football Card Oddities, Interesting eBay Auctions  |  2 Comments

Here are some interesting items that were recently listed on eBay: print blocks that were used to print 1961 Lake to Lake Packers football cards. The 1961 Lake to Lake Willie Wood card is a short print and also a pre-rookie card of Wood. (His rookie card is a 1963 Topps.) The Lake to Lake Emlen Tunnell card is his only card with the Packers, though he spent three years with the team. Tunnell, who is now in the Hall of Fame, had been a star with the Giants, and it is odd that neither Topps nor Fleer printed a card of him in his last years in the league.
1961 Lake to Lake Packers Willie Wood print block1961 Lake to Lake Packers Willie Wood football card1961 Lake to Lake Packers Emlen Tunnell print block1961 Lake to Lake Packers Emlen Tunnell football card
I don’t know much about printing, so I don’t know how people printed cards with these blocks. I do know that half of the Lake to Lake cards were severely short-printed, and four of the five blocks the seller had for sale were for short prints. Why the cards were so short printed is a mystery to me; unfortunately, the print blocks aren’t giving me any clues.

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  1. nearmint says:

    January 13th, 2010 at 5:24 PM (#)

    Hi Rich, thanks for posting. I wasn’t aware of the find. Do you know the details?

  2. Rich Mueller says:

    January 20th, 2010 at 5:34 PM (#)

    I can’t recall the exact details..it was just one of those stories passed along by those who lived in that neck of the woods and attended shows. The general idea was that someone in the late 1970s (I think) had called the company and amazingly, they still had some of the cards in stock. The dealer bought them all. I want to say it may have been a guy named George Husby, but I don’t know for certain.

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