The below is meant as a tribute to Robert Edwards Auction for bringing
to the nonsports collectors information never seen in the past.

I took the liberty of copying Robert Edwards Auctions
R80 information and R80 images, adding them to
the R80 webpage at the Gallery.

Thank you from all of us...

http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/R80/rea.html
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/R80/go.html

We previously showcased R196 Radio Gum, using REA info and images,
and will give REA proper credit very soon.
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/R196/go.html
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Danderoo:

Well done!

That is a great move and, frankly, a very important one for our hobby . . . very happy to see you capturing images from that great, once-in-a-lifetime REA wax 'find'. Hope you'll also be grabbing all the OTHER great REA non-sports images -- the Skybirds boxes and packs, that astounding Frank Buck box and packs, the Tattoo Orbit material, etc etc etc.

This way, all those amazing pictures and their information won't be lost to us or to future collectors, whether all that archived auction info remains on REA's website or not . . .

A real goldmine for our virtual collection at the N54 Gallery of vintage non-sport card images. Go get em! (And thanks again; we are all stunned -- and delighted -- by your energy level, focus and dedication to this project.)

Ralph

Dan, I agree with Ralph, this is a fantastic idea! Thanks for doing it

My biggest problem is motivation.
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Winners rarely will send scanner images after receiving their "wins".
Other winners prefer not to give out the info they are "winners".
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Having just the REA images should be ok for any mortal, but for some
reason "motivation" doesn't kick in. I need more. It's like going
to a Chines Buffet. You have more than you need, but you still ask
"where's the lobster".

Don Hayes' sharing of R196 made me want to create that webpage.
Now that it's finished, adding REA info is mandatory (coming this week)

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I may not be able to keep up with a lot of you on this board, but as I get older I can occasionally collect a few things that I never dreamed that I could before. I won these two First Column Defenders packs and can't believe that I have unopened material from 1940 in my collection. I wish now that I had bitten harder on the complete set from the Legendary auction; they would have gone great together.

Thanks for showing the backs, they provide good evidence on how the old packs were somewhat randomly sealed.

Nice pickup Daniel, I can see the pack on the left is holding card #22.

Basic REA auction information
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/R196/rea.html

with a link to the above from the main R196 page.
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~dan/R196/go.html
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You made me laugh Richard. But you also made me pull my cards out and see if could see why you thought the card was #22, and that long gun barrel does seem to make it obvious. Nice one. Care to guess what the other pack holds?

Great pickup Daniel. I bid on these early but didn't rebid.

Alan

Daniel---thanks for showing those FCD packs---awesome stuff! I think the pencil note of 10-10-40 adds a lot to the appeal of those old time treasures---thought you might enjoy seeing the Cuban Sweets version of PPBG----I often wonder if those foreign issues had the same short distribution of the 3 tough #'s---guess I'll never know for sure, but I suspect probably not---the 2 cards I have from this series have the same numbers as their US counterparts--

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one interesting thing is the shape of the gum in the intact packs---it's more like a bar rather than a slab---not sure if time has altered the appearance of the gum though--the packs don't actually lie flat on the gum side, since the gum produces a pronounced bulge--