June 14th, 2011 |
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Interesting eBay Auctions
Happy Tuesday! Here are this week’s interesting eBay auctions for vintage football cards:
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This one is over, but I found it amusing: a large lot of 1957 Topps cards, all neatly cut in half. I kind of like the separate halves!
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For you pre-rookie card lovers: some nice 1950 Admiral TV Rams cards of Mel Hein and Joe Stydahar. (In case you haven’t seen the set, there are a few other 1950 Admiral Rams cards listed, as well.)
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Speaking of TVs, there’s a PSA 10 1966 Topps Abner Haynes up for grabs.
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And speaking of out of my price range, there’s also a complete, beautiful high-grade set of 1962 Fleer cards for sale.
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This week’s uncut sheets are uncut chunks of two sheets of 1948 Leaf cards. I believe these are the first uncut panels of 1948 Leaf cards I have seen. (To see what full uncut 1948 Leaf sheets looked like, see my 1948 Leaf virtual uncut sheet page.)
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Something else I haven’t seen before: a 1937 Donut Corp of America Knute Rockne card! There’s also one of Red Grange. This apparently is a multi-sport set, because the seller has a track card and an auto racing card listed, as well.
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This week’s miscut card is a 1948 Kellogg’s Pep George McAfee. It’s the first badly miscut card I’ve seen where the two partial cards were parts of the same card.
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May 11th, 2010 |
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error cards, New in the Gallery, Uniforms
Yesterday I added 1948 Kellogg’s Pep football cards to the Vintage Football Card Gallery. The five cards are part of a 42-card sport and entertainment set that was distributed in boxes of Kellogg’s Pep cereal. You can see the composition of the set on PSA’s web site, but you have to look in two places, since PSA split the set into athletes and celebrities. Apparently not many trading card sets contain both.
The cards are small, about half the height of a standard trading card. There is one variation among the football cards: some instances of Charley Trippi’s card have the image reversed, and some have it corrected. The Trippi card shown here has the reversed image, though I’m not sure how to tell. Perhaps by how his chinstrap is fastened?
Trippi’s card shows him in his College All-Star uniform–note the stars on the shoulders. He played in the game five times: four as a college all-star, and one as a Chicago Cardinal, after the Cardinals won the 1947 NFL championship. The College All-Star Game site has a photo of Trippi in action in 1945, the year he was the All-Stars’ MVP.
Another notable card in the 1948 Pep set is a Lou Groza pre-rookie card, pictured here. Groza’s rookie card is a 1950 Bowman. Check out my pre-rookie card page for more pre-rookies.
There is currently an empty Kellogg’s Pep box for sale on eBay that shows some of the 1948 cards on the front. If you squint, you can see some of the football cards listed on one of the side panels. The box, which the seller says is the first cereal box to show a sports figure on the front (namely, George Mikan), is listed for a mere $2599.
