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Old 05-19-2011, 01:46 PM
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David Pierson
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Default Help! Newly discovered multisport set!

Aloha! In 1986, at a garage sale in Volcano Hawaii, I purchased an incomplete set of multisportscards. I presume the set is 100 cards as I have 80 of them including #1 and #100. They are 11" X 14" Blank backed, on heavy cardboard stock. They include Boxers, Golfers, Olympians, even horserace jockeys. There are 27 baseball related and 12 football related. There are basketball, golfers, figure skaters etc. etc. I think they are circa 1949/1950 as the latest pic shows #99 the winner of the 1948 Indy 500 and #100 Bob Mathias winning the 1948 London Olympic games. So far everyone is stumped. I lived most of my life in Detroit and knew Frank Nagy...even he had never seen them. They are rubber stamped on the back by a local hawaiian library as acquired in 1983. I spoke to the now retired librarian who recalls withdrawing them because they were not a book and the set seemed incomplete (The library received them through a donation). She stated that they were sold at a book sale around 1983. #'s 1 to 50 have SP-(then a number) 50 to 100 have a number then SP. They are currently in the hands of Huggins and Scott Auctions who are trying to specifically identify them. I have been a collector since 1956 and my brother a collector since the forties. I have scoured the internet and every guidebook I can find to no avail. H and S will have them at the national for all to see. Also I am trying to get SCD and Beckett and Oldcardboard to do an article on them and try to identify them through their publications and or members. Any insight would be a big help. You may contact me at 808-966-4207 or my email massconfusion1964@gmail.com. Much Mahalos, Respectfully, David Pierson.
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