A pair of whitebacks, a generation apart!

of a tough card from very difficult crossover set. 3/4 pose. Contrast as good as any HLC. One of Laura's "hickeys" (print dot) and a bit tilted - I'm quite happy.

My head not on backwards nor is it sideways - I don't have a working photo program yet....

rotated and cropped a little.......

Thanks.......

Picked this one up earlier in the week...#33 in my N2 set.

pickup Danster............

These 1953 Parkhurst Ripley's BION cards arrived today:



The thing I found interesting was that the 1953 Parhurst No. 59 has the same picture & story as the 1937 Wolverine Gum No. 36 card.



As always looking for Ripley's Believe It Or Not cards from both sets.

Mark,
Neat card! Can you tell us more about that series? I noticed this photo in "The Find" and wondered if it is the same series...

Hello to All ,

Hi Todd

I'm afraid i don't know a great deal about the series , Murrays has the issue date as 1936 but the people who i purchased this off state 1955 . I would tend to go with the mid 1950's date .

The card doesn't have the feel of the 30's


I should imagine that the packs have a strong connection to the series as the card ' blurb ' is the same as is on the packs , although the picture in the middle pack looks more like a movie star portrait than from the ' Kidnapped ' series .

After a quick google there was a set issued by AA Gum in 1936 titled MGM Film Stars ZJ4-25 although i can't find any reference in my only card book , Murrays .


There was a thread on the forum a few months back .


thriller gum

I don't know whether to laugh or cry ... David Carrick. So I'll do both.

sounding stupid , (won't be the last time) ..



what do you mean Chuck ? ^^^

Has some net54 member passed on ...or even worse !

----

Mark

Another of the Sunny South Series...

-Rhett

Look a Jerry H's Parkhurst BION.
Last card.

seen the name before .

Cheers Keith .

I like that one too. There's a scarce variation of it as well

A very early O-Pee-Chee gum box. Never heard of this brand before. There was a seller on ebay who was auctioning off an uncut sheet of O-Pee-Chee Transfers featuring animals that look very similar to the ones on the side of this box. I wonder if this box is how those transfers were sold? I am unsure of the age but i speculate late 1930's or earlier. I had to pay big for this one but it's a great box.



Anyone can feel free to copy these images for their own personal files, but if you end up publishing them in anyway (online/website/print ect.) please contact me or credit me for the images in the forum that you published on.

I picked this one up for my 13 year daughter - she loves this set:

A few links below to some info on the namesake of Jumbo Chewing Gum:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo

http://www.scrapalbum.com/jumbo.htm

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refelephant.html

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/jumbo.html

Very cute, how you just casually post that scan of the hardly-ever-seen US Caramels President wrapper !!!

WOW.

Story?

After Dan McKee posted his Caramel Presidents wrapper question (in January) - http://www.network54.com/Forum/526604/thread/1232719145/last-1232898088/Show+us+your+1932+US+Caramel+presidents+Wrapper ; I started to rethink some of the contents of my old boxes (boxes of paper goods acquired over 10 years ago; & not fully searched for all of the goodies). In one of those boxes - mostly sports material - was the Caramel wrapper.

I still do know know if it is technically a Baseball wrapper or a N/S wrapper though.......

My first of hopefully the full set Strange True Stories card:



I must be a glutton for punishment.

Mark, that wrapper really seems strongly tied to the US Caramel Presidents cards.  Note the political / presidential symbols all over it. On the other hand, there don't seem to be any specific, obvious links that tie the wrapper to the sportcards, are there?  At least, I didn't see anything on the cards or on the wrapper . . . .  Seems kind of a stretch to associate it with the baseball cards . . . although there is still the fact that no wrapper, unique to baseball, has ever been found.  And this is weird, cuz there are plenty of baseball cards!  So, who knows?

Anyway, here are some images grabbed off the net, to illustrate.

First, the baseball cards:  

Note that there is no reference on the baseball cards, front or back, to "American Heroes" which would parallel the wrapper:

 

Next, have a look at an R114 card, US Caramel Presidents card, also grabbed off the net.  Note the title banner at the bottom of the front of the card:  "American Heroes Caramel".  Seems no doubt that this wrapper goes with the President cards.   

Picked up this Memorial Day "display piece", not positive what it is actually...8X10.

Ralph,

I think the unanswered question concerns the difference between "American Heroes Caramels" and "United States Heroes Caramels." There are two distinct wrappers. Could they be from the two different sets?

Good point, Jim, but not sure how to ever know!

(By the way, Dan has an image in the gallery of that other version of the wrapper, the one that has the title "American Heroes Caramels" rather than U.S. Heroes.)

...it's great when Bob Marcy comes to town (Chicago)...he's always a pleasure to talk to and deal with, and never fails to have some good items...a few personal highlights for me are shown below, from his latest visit, the Sun-Times Show this weekend:

Toledo non-sport card show pickups...

The elusive clear acetate 1959 Stooges cards.............VERY difficult. Only visible under black light-right?

This was a flea market find last fall, but I am slow in scanning.

Note that although the price is pencilled on he back, I bought several cards so I did not have to pay so much.

Awesome tulip! Always love to see examples from this colorful and scarce set. Thanks for posting a scan of the back.

And with ten inches of snow on the way, the tulip reminds me that Spring is still possible...

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