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R-Cards (1930s & 1940s Gum & Candy) For Sale
$275 This card of Cincinnati Reds catcher Bob O'Farrell is from a set of premiums used to promote the Butterfinger candy brand of Curtis Company. The card is from a subset of the main R310 Butterfinger series that has two significant variations: (1) it has a Butterfinger ad overprint at the top of the card and (2) it is printed on heavy (rigid) cardboard stock. The O'Farrell card offered here displays very nicely. Note the small stain soft corner at the lower left (see high-resolution scans for more detail.
Further details about thw R310 Butterfinger set are provided on the Old Cardboard website. ALSO AVAILABLE: A card (also with ad overprint) featuring Tex Carleton ($295) is also available in slightly higher grade (without stain). Please contact editor@oldcardboard.com for additional information.
Lefty Grove (HOF) $325 This card of Hall of Famer Lefty Grove is from a set of premiums used to promote the Butterfinger candy brand of Curtis Company. One black-and-white premium was provided for each Butterfinger cardy bar purchased. The Grove card offered here displays very attractively. It has light glue stains from being mounted to an album and 1/4 inch tears and mild creasing in the lower right (see high-resolution scans for detail).
Further details about this R310 Butterfinger set are provided on the Old Cardboard website. ALSO AVAILABLE: Cards for Simmons (HOF, $300); Averill (HOF, $375), Fox (HOF, 425) and Cronin (HOF; 300) are also available in similar grade. Please contact editor@oldcardboard.com for additional information.
with COBB plus 21 other HOFers) $1550 An incredibly high number of HOFers (22; more than half) are included in these three 13-card strips of tiny cards once extracted from arcade gum-ball machines. The 22 HOFers are: Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Larry Doby, Bob Feller, Bill Dickey, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Casey Stengel, Johnny Mize, Frankie Frisch, George Sisler, Tris Speaker, Al Simmons, Joe Medwick, Richie Ashburn, Ralph Kiner, Hal Newhouser, Red Schoendienst, Dazzy Vance, Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner. Together, the three strips feature 39 of the 119 players in the R423 set. The card backs picture a stylized view of a baseball infield over an orange background. All cards are in like-new condition with sharp corners (even those on each end of the strips) and no creases, stains, etc. Please see high-resolution scans for condition detail.
Further details about the 1950 R423 Set are provided on the Old Cardboard website.
Ruth, Ruth and Ruth $5100 This spectacular group from the 1949 Leaf Premium series includes all three Ruth variations in the set. The set of premiums was used to promote the 1949 Leaf baseball regular gum card set. One black-and-white premium is said to have been packed with each 20 wax-pack box of Leaf Gum displayed on the retailer's countertop. According to text on the back of the regular cards, a premium could be obtained by redeeming 10 of the wax pack wrappers. All three cards have moderate flaws as reflected in the price for the lot. Most notably, Ruth #1 and Ruth #2 in the scans have both vertical and horizontal creasing from being folded long ago. Also, it appears that about one quarter of an inch has been trimmed from the border around the perimeter of Ruth #3. Click images to see high-resolution scans for condition detail. Please contact us with any questions. Overall, this truly impressive trio would be a welcome addition to any vintage collector's advanced collection.
Further details about this premium set are provided on the Old Cardboard website.
$1550 This Christy Mathewson card is from a set of premiums used to promote the 1949 Leaf baseball card set. One black-and-white premium is said to have been packed with each 20-wax-pack box displayed on the retailer's countertop. The Mathewson card offered here has minor creasing (most visibly in the upper right corner; see high-resolution scans for detail).
Further details about this premium set are provided on the Old Cardboard website.
$2,750 This popular and widely collected series was issued in 1936 as in-store premiums to promote Goudey Gum products. The set has since been assigned the ACC number R314. Notably, the set contains a Rookie Card for Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, along with cards featuring more than two dozen additional HOFers. Further, the only variation card in the set (that of HOFer Lloyd Waner without the "Litho in U.S.A." tag at the bottom) is included. The 6 cards needed to complete the set are all of "common" players and should be relatively easy (and inexpensive) to acquire. The players featured in the missing cards are: Blaeholder, Cavarretta, Finney, Frey, Galan and Rogell. The DiMaggio/McCarthy card has a very small pin hole at the top middle that detracts very little from the overall appeal (see high-res front and back scans). The card of HOFer Hank Greenberg has been graded SGC 3 (VG). Most other cards in the set should grade VG or better on average with a few lower and a few higher. All cards are completely intact (i.e., no missing chips, corners, etc.).
Note: A Set Profile, Checklist and Gallery of Cards for the R314 set is provided on the Old Cardboard website.
$650 The 1933 Goudey Sport Kings set is an attractively designed 48-card series contains only three baseball players--Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Carl Hubbell. Numerous other leading atheletes representing a total of eighteen different sports are also found in the set. The set is considered to be the pre-eminant multi-sport "Champions" issue of the period. Common to all card fronts is a white border with a red "Sport Kings Gum" banner at the top. A "waist-up" color image of the subject is displayed over a solid colored background. The subject's name is printed in white over a black panel across the bottom. Silouetted action images depicting the subject's sport add an unusual and interesting style to the card design.
The Carl Hubbard card offered here has several slight wrinkles (click on images to enlarge). Otherwise, the card has sharp corners and would grade EX+. Further details about this popular set are provided on the Old Cardboard website.
plus Coupon & Gum in Original Wrapper $5,750 This very scarce 1933 R317 Uncle Jacks Candy Color Type Set encompasses examples of all five color tints that were used in printing the card fronts. The colors are red, purple, blue, green and sepia. Further, all five cards are graded by SGC and four of the five players featured on the cards (Leo "Gabby" Hartnett: SGC 3; Bill Terry (SGC 2), Frank Frisch: SGC3 and Al Simmons: SGC 1) are now in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Only Wes Ferrell (SGC 2), who played in two all-star games and the 1938 World Series, has not been elected into the BB-HOF. The blank backs are generally very clean except for some paper loss/gain from previous mounting on the back of the Simmons card and a small "1" (about 1/8-inch long) marked in the top left corner of the Hartnett example. No other marks, stains, creases or tears.
Further details about this popular set are provided on the Old Cardboard website. Interested collectors are also invited to contact us with questons about the R317 set or the condition of the cards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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