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1949 LEAF BB set re-visited....show us your cards
The 1949 LEAF's aren't the most pretty looking cards in the hobby, but there is a certain appeal to them. Anyhow, I have quite a sentimental attachment
to these cards, as they were my first colorized BB cards I collected when I was a kid. I still remember opening a pack and finding a Babe Ruth card. They were great for flipping, or scaling with your buddies. I still have my original 49-card set from my youth. Never saw any of the 2nd series (49 cards) in our neighborhood in Hillside, NJ. These so-called Short-Prints were distributed only to Eastern Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. I'll start this show with my two favorites. Looking forward to seeing your 1949 LEAF cards. 1st Series.....issued March 1949 (last card of Joe D in a major set) http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...DiMaggio50.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...iMaggio50b.jpg 2nd Series.....issued Summer 1949 (1st card of Paige in a major set) http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...fPaige25xb.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...afPaige25x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . . |
Here's mine , and in my opinion they are some of the prettiest post war cards
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4771/...7625a33e_c.jpgIMG_1866 by Guy Bourque, on Flickr |
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I don't have any scans handy, but this is my all-time favorite set. I love it that they look like Andy Warhol was making baseball cards. (And in 1949! Those folks at Leaf were way ahead of the time.)
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One of my favorite sets. Cool looking, and loads of varieties far beyond what's cataloged.
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Some of my favorites of the cards in my PC. PSA has them labeled as 48s :p
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When I first got back into collecting, around 1998, these cards did not do much for me. Over time, though, I have learned to appreciate their unique beauty. The set is definitely an acquired taste, and I like the challenge of finding the odd color variation or perfectly registered HOFers.
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In general, I'm not a fan of this issue as many of the images are blurred or otherwise inferior to all other sets...see the Newhouser scan posted as an example.
My two do not suffer from that problem, nor did the Musial RC I sold recently. Attachment 329756Attachment 329757 |
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1949 LEAF Cleveland Indians
There are twenty HOFers in the 1949 LEAF set with the Indians having the most HOFers......
Spring series cards MVP in 1948 http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...udreau25xb.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...oudreau25x.jpg.http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...eGordon25x.jpg Summer series cards (short-prints) http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...afPaige25x.jpg..http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...AFFeller25.jpg..http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...eafDoby25x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
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My Del Ennis rookie.
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And for those of you who simply have to start the set after seeing these awesome cards, this is on eBay now (full disclosure--I know the seller).
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Complementary pair of wrong backs from my 2nd 1949 LEAF set.
These inverted backs on the cards in the 2nd (SP) series tells us that the printer simply ran the pre-printed 49-card sheets (of fronts) in reverse when doing the back print run. All 49 subjects in this series have been found with wrong-backs. I've never seen 1st series wrong-backs from this set. Anyhow, if you have 1949 LEAF wrong-backs, please post them here.....Thanks. .http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...idGordonWB.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...dGordonWBk.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
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I only have one
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Shown here is one of the 4 variations in this set. The Red Cap version of Peterson is tougher to find.
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Leaf errors and misprints are fun. My Spahn 'ghost':
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...hn%20front.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ahn%20back.jpg Vandermeer front ghost: http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...der%20Meer.jpg And the color variations: http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...f%20Harris.jpg The beautiful thing about Leaf is that their QC absolutely sucked across the board: http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...s%20Fields.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ong%20back.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20Leonard.jpg |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Great stuff there, Adam.
Here's some of mine...… Varying shades of BLUE......shown here are some of my LEAF cards from Set #1 and Set #2..... http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...aftwmusial.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...tBluexBlue.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...ndillinger.jpg And then, there is BLUE or no BLUE. http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...izellplatt.jpg Plus, I'll throw in a red wet-transfer of Johnny Hopp. http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...49leafhopp.jpg Stay tuned....I'll be displaying more of these LEAF printing anomalies. TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
While the 1st series of 49 cards of this 1949 LEAF BB set were very available in most states throughout the country in the early Spring of 1949,
the 2nd series (49 cards) were issued in the Summer of 1949 and were regionally limited to Eastern Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. These 2nd series cards, as most of you know who collect this set, are extremely tough to find. And, are referred to as Short-Prints. In the following posts all 49 of these short-prints will be displayed. FYI....1949 LEAF 2nd series checklist with respect to teams...... BOSTON BRAVES ---------------------- ALVIN DARK TOMMY HOLMES HAROLD REISER BOSTON RED SOX ----------------------- MATHEW BATTS DOM DiMAGGIO BILLY GOODMAN JOHNNY PESKY VERN STEPHENS CHICAGO CUBS -------------------- PHIL CAVARETTA FRANK GUSTINE EMIL LEONARD HARRY LOWREY BOB SCHEFFING JOHNNY SCHMITZ HARRY WALKER CHICAGO WHITE SOX --------------------------- FLOYD BAKER ORVAL GROVE CASIMER MICHAELS DAVE PHILLEY CINCINNATI REDS ----------------------- BOBBY ADAMS HANK SAUER JOHN WYROSTEK CLEVELAND INDIANS --------------------------- BOB FELLER LEROY PAIGE LARRY DOBY KEN KELTNER DALE MITCHELL DETROIT TIGERS ---------------------- GEORGE KELL HAL NEWHOUSER WALTER EVERS FRED HUTCHINSON VIRGIL TRUCKS NEW YORK GIANTS ------------------------ SID GORDON NEW YORK YANKEES --------------------------- TOMMY HENRICH PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS ---------------------------------- EDDIE JOOST HENRY MAJESKI BARNEY McCOSKY PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES -------------------------------- ED MILLER DICK SISLER PITTSBURGH PIRATES ----------------------------- KIRBY HIGBE DANNY MURTAUGH EDDIE STEVENS ST LOUIS BROWNS ------------------------- BOB DILLINGER CLIFFORD FANNIN AL ZARILLA ST LOUIS CARDINALS --------------------------- ENOS SLAUGHTER HARRY BRECHEEN GEORGE KUROWSKI WASHINGTON SENATORS -------------------------------- EDDIE STEWART TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Starting the 2nd series cards display...…
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...rGorFel50x.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...lAdaMur50x.jpg …………………………………………………….…. l.......wrong back….(Feller).......l http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...iserTrucks.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
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This is a wonderful thread. I didn’t know a lot about this set, other than I love the look of the cards. Thank you for sharing so much information. This is my only Leaf st this time.
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Great thread!!!
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Here are my only Leafs
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Continuing with the 2nd series cards, here are 9 more......
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
I've been collecting 1949 LEAF's for 37 years. Currently making progress on my 2nd set of them. And, it appears to me that these 6 subjects in the 2nd series
are considerably tougher to find than any of the other 43 subjects in this series. I am curious to hear what cards have you guys found to be the toughest in this set ? http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...afPaige25x.jpg..http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...AFFeller25.jpg..http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...eafDoby25x.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...ouserKellX.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
And, here is another group of short-prints....this brings our total to 33 cards displayed on this page.
Sixteen more will be forthcoming to complete the 2nd series group of 49 subjects. http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...SpSwWaZa25.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Here are 15 more 2nd series cards....which leaves us just one more card to show to complete this 49-card display on this page.
Anyone want to guess who this 49th guy is ? http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...rosGustine.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...StBaCaSc25.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
No one ventured a guess, so here's the 49th card in this 2nd series display.
The Brothers DiMaggio http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...omDiMaggio.jpg . http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...DiMaggio25.jpg 2nd Series.....issued Summer 1949 TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
OK, quite a number of mis-printed 1949 LEAF cards can be found....but, can anyone on this forum top this mis-print ?
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
There are some pretty nice looking Babe Ruth cards on display in this thread. Here are my two Ruth cards from my two sets.
The fine looking Ruth on the left...I paid only a penny for in the Spring of 1949. It is not unusual to find the Babe Ruth cards from this set in pretty nice condition, because a lot of us kids did not "flip" them, nor stick them in our bicycle spokes (as we did with many of the other LEAF cards in our youth). http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...beruth49_1.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...eafRuth25x.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...abeRuth25b.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
Sweet 1 cent Ruth. Did you buy packs in the day as well?
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Here are the wrappers of the two competing Gum Co. in 1949. The Bowman wax packs were available for a Penny and a Nickel.
I remember only Penny wax packs of LEAF in my neighborhood. ..................... 1949 BOWMAN ............................................... 1949 LEAF ......................... http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...wmanleaf-1.jpg TED Z . |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
1949 LEAF BB B/W photo of an uncut sheet of the 1st series cards.
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Ted, thanks for all the images. Sometimes I think the only way to appreciate the beauty of a set is to see many of the cards side by side. Especially a set with so many colors.
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Hi In the Spring of 1949, many of us kids were excited to open up a LEAF pack to find a Babe Ruth card. It was still very fresh in our minds when Babe Ruth passed away in August 1948. LEAF Gum Co. sold a lot of cards by including Ruth in this set. Furthermore, they sold a lot cards in 1949 by "skip-numbering" these cards. This was a "nasty" little marketing trick that kept us kids spending a ton of pennies buying these cards, in the quest of filling in our sets with the missing numbers. Many of which did not exist. TED Z T206 Reference . |
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1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
The long-sleeve card of Cliff Aberson appeared in the early issues of the 1949 LEAF cards. The short-sleeve version
appeared later in the game. My guess is that the short-sleeve Aberson cards are simply the result of printing flaw. http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...bersons25x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
Ted -
You make reference to " short print " with some of the cards. Is this due to the cards being a " single print " in relation to the rest of the cards, or were all cards to be printed in the same amount, but due to layout of the cards on a sheet some were overlooked and not placed as often for printing. |
1949 LEAF set re-visited....show us your cards
Hi Lou
The so-called "Short-Prints" is a term which the hobby years ago used to identify these cards. I prefer to refer to these 1949 LEAF cards as the "2nd series" cards which were issued in the Summer of 1949. These 49 cards were limited in both production and distribution. Research indicates that this 2nd series of 1949 LEAF's were marketed only in Eastern Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. While the 1st series of 49 cards were marketed in large numbers nationwide. My understanding as to why this occurred was due to litigation problems between the BOWMAN GUM CO. and the LEAF GUM CO. in 1949. All 49 cards in this 2nd series are displayed in this thread in Posts #22, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31. 1st Series.....issued March 1949 http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...DiMaggio50.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...iMaggio50b.jpg 2nd Series.....issued Summer 1949 http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...fPaige25xb.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...afPaige25x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 Leaf BB set re-visited....show us your cards......
….or, show us your 1949 LEAF Premiums.
Note that SGC identifies the year of these Premiums as 1949. And, I think PSA does, also. Yet they incorrectly identify the 1949 BB cards. Trust me, guys...… these Premiums were inserted in the 24-count Wax-Back boxes which the 1949 BB cards were packaged in. I would say, PSA and SGC are totally confused ! ? http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...uGehrig25x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
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again ... grading companies not alone on this nor were they the first. i know you know this.
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1949 Leaf BB set re-visited....show us your cards......
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Hi Ken It's a very tough card, no matter it's condition. Thanks for posting it. Here's the Hermansk in my set....not too much better. http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...rResTru50x.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
1949 Leaf BB set re-visited....show us your cards......
….or, show us your 1949 LEAF Premiums.
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1949 Leaf BB set re-visited....show us your cards......
….or, show us your 1949 LEAF Premiums.
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1949 LEAF BB set re-visited....show us your cards
In early press runs Kent Peterson is depicted with a black cap. Later issues of 1st series cards Kent Peterson is depicted with a Red cap.
My guess is LEAF changed the color of his cap to be consistent with the 3 other Cincinnati players in the 1st series. The Red cap version is much tougher to find. http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...cincireds5.jpg TED Z T206 Reference . |
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