Show us a “ only one that’s known of” card

[quitcrab]

Does anyone have any “cards” or such, that maybe “the only one know?”
For example a fellow collector has a full 1960 Bazooka box with Clemente… and we are pretty sure or it’s highly unlikely another one exist.
I had at one time a 1960 Rawlings Advisory staff photo of Brooks Robinson Standing that fellow Brooks collectors have never seen that example. That could be 1/1.
Just curious what rarities are out there especially with player collectors.

[hcv123]

1959 Bazooka Banks - Autographed
1962 Clemente Jell-O box
1968 Clemente Topps DIsc

[quitcrab]

Nice stuff Howard! I can think of two more items in your collection that are definitely one of a kind !

[Chstrite]

Here are a few:

[sflayank]

68 clemente disc and 67 clemente disc are identical
Therefore no way to tell the difference so def I nicely not 1 of a kind

[sflayank]

68 clemente disc and 67 clemente disc are identical
Therefore no way to tell the difference so def I nicely not 1 of a kind

[sflayank]

Only 1

[Cliff Bowman]

I have no doubt that of course more were printed but I have never seen or heard of another of these still in existence, the album for the 1951 Hirsch Clothing and eight of the photos in the set, the small glossy card version of the Wilson Advisory Ernie Banks, and a 1963 Topps Philadelphia Phillies team card print error partially missing the border line. The 1963 Phillies team card is part of a recurring print flaw that affects all ten cards on the right edge of the uncut sheet. If I can think of others I have I will post them.

[sflayank]

Hirsch...nice..I guess not for sale?

[quitcrab]

Good stuff guys ! I am recovering from a minor surgery. When I feel better I will post a few items!

[raulus]

Always hard to say with some stuff. As far as I know, I think it’s 1-of-1, but there’s a chance that there are more.

Here’s one - Alaga Syrup Mays postcard

Of course, as soon as I post one, the odds are good that someone else here will post their copy.

[raulus]

1955 Mays Exhibit with Mutoscope back.

[Cliff Bowman]

Larry, show your 1 of 1's 1966 and 1967 Pro's Pizza box lids .

[raulus]

1962 Jello Mays complete box in black cherry. A few days ago we saw a raw copy in butterscotch pudding flavor.

[raulus]

Mays 1962 Post Canadian inserts complete panel. From what I understand, these were only available in boxes of sugar crisp cereal.

[raulus]

Mays 65 Bazooka complete box.

[ValKehl]

There may be a couple more 1954 Briggs Meats 2-card panels with Mickey Vernon and Eddie Yost out there, but they won't be signed by each player:

[ValKehl]

There may be other 1957 Topps salesman's samples with this 3-player combination out there, but I've never seen another during my 35+ years of collecting:

[sflayank]

Pros pizza I doubt are 1 of 1s
I have to take pictures
These could be 1 of 1s though
J.c.martin,Juan Pizarro, early Wynn, joe nuxhall

[Cliff Bowman]

I missed the 1951 Hirsch Clothing Phil Cavarretta from the first post. The Ron Santo promo pin for the 1969 Cubs Iron Ons and the 1969 Jim Hickman Cubs Iron Ons are the only ones I have seen but there are undoubtedly more out there. I have never seen another 1974 Topps Dusty Baker print error, a few others were definitely printed but who knows if any others still exist.

[Cliff Bowman]

Only ones I have seen of either of these, promo card (front and back) for the 1974 Wichita Aeros set and a Gene Hiser from the same set missing the photo.

[ChiSoxTony]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

Does anyone have any “cards” or such, that maybe “the only one know?”
For example a fellow collector has a full 1960 Bazooka box with Clemente… and we are pretty sure or it’s highly unlikely another one exist.
I had at one time a 1960 Rawlings Advisory staff photo of Brooks Robinson Standing that fellow Brooks collectors have never seen that example. That could be 1/1.
Just curious what rarities are out there especially with player collectors.

There should be more of these, but I’ve never found another single or the strip from which it was cut.




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[quitcrab]

from my collection

[quitcrab]

1965 Box Topper with Mantle, Koufax and Boyer

[quitcrab]

A couple months later WS Champions

[Chstrite]

Wow. This two are amazing. I need both for Brooks. Always looking.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Chstrite

Wow. This two are amazing. I need both for Brooks. Always looking.

They're definitely tough!

At the same time, obviously more than 1 was produced, so more could be found at any time. Along those lines, I have some that are 1 of 2, which are just as cool in my book, like the Mays 1959 Bazooka Complete Box, or the Mays 1963 Jell-O Complete Box.

[gonefishin]

This is the only one in known existence, a 1967 sealed Kabaya Leaf pack with Sadaharu Oh on back, graded a PSA 8.

As a matter of fact, here are the only 4 packs ever graded by PSA.

Please enjoy.

[Stonepony]

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[Mark70Z]

Well, not really a card, but it helped make the card...

1964 Topps Standup transparency

[JollyElm]

Perhaps this is pushing it a bit since it is more or less of a technicality, but this version of the 1967 Topps #252 Bob Bolin 'White Streak' Variation is the only one I have ever seen, and significantly different than the standard 'white streak' card*...

1967bolin252whitestreakPSA8.jpg



*Ignore the fact that they goofily label it 'white streak between name' (singular) and not 'white streak between names' or 'white streak between first and last name.'

[jjbond]

While there are loads of Japanese baseball cards I've come across that may be "only one known", especially if they are not catalogued in the guide, here's one you may find interesting. Calbee put out special prize cards ("Homerun cards") in their sets, which were basically re-issuing the same card fronts with a prize back. In theory, every card may have a prize version, but I'm not sure if that's indeed the case, nor am I sure how many duplicates they issued (I have not seen very many).

To that end, here is one of the more famous Calbee cards, albeit in the rare prize edition. I'm not sure if another prize card version of this weird card exists.
This card is from 1977, featuring Sadaharu Oh and for some reason he's posing with "The Destroyer", an American wrestler who spent much of the 70s in Japan.

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by sflayank

68 clemente disc and 67 clemente disc are identical
Therefore no way to tell the difference so def I nicely not 1 of a kind

1) There is a very slight cropping difference between the 2

and

2) The Clemente was cut from an uncut sheet I owned containing a complete set of the 1968 discs - which in part has a different player selection than the 67's

So I am 100% certain it is a '68. None of the other Clemetne discs I have examined match up. Possibly another out there, but as of now 1 of 1.

[Cliff Bowman]

https://www.cleansweepauctions.com/item-809493/

The 1951 Hirsch Clothing Frank Frisch can be crossed off the list, there's another one out there.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by hcv123

1)

2) The Clemente was cut from an uncut sheet I owned containing a complete set of the 1968 discs - which in part has a different player selection than the 67's.

So does that mean the 1968 Topps Disc Ron Santo that you cut off of the same sheet that I bought from you is also a 1 of 1?

[quitcrab]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I missed the 1951 Hirsch Clothing Phil Cavarretta from the first post. The Ron Santo promo pin for the 1969 Cubs Iron Ons and the 1969 Jim Hickman Cubs Iron Ons are the only ones I have seen but there are undoubtedly more out there. I have never seen another 1974 Topps Dusty Baker print error, a few others were definitely printed but who knows if any others still exist.

What makes the Dusty Baker card special ? Thanks Scott

[quitcrab]

1964 stamp Zimmer color transparency

[quitcrab]

Louisville slugger poster
With Reggie Jackson 1969

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

What makes the Dusty Baker card special ? Thanks Scott

It's missing much of the final stage of the printing process, the black ink in the border lines. It was a printing flaw that also affected the card to its left, Sandy Alomar. There are a handful of the Alomar cards known but that is the only Baker I have ever seen. The card to the right of Baker, Cookie Rojas, is almost certainly also affected but I haven't found one yet.

[ALR-bishop]

A fairly unique Maury Wills . This was listed in the 2011 Standard Catalog as a Topps prototype with 4 other "pairs" of players also listed. Reggie Jackson and Jr Richard were listed together. Also, a few, last 8 of these 81 Topps/Coke cards may be unique

[steve B]

Have a small batch of these, probably proofs of some kind, since the original batch had numbers over 150. Lots of reversed negatives and coarser printing too.
Got them in around 1980 and haven't seen any others.

[sflayank]

Gonna have to show me the cropping difference

[quitcrab]

Look thru the “O “ in the name Bob… I see a difference. Howard’s example is a 68 because I saw the whole sheet it was cut from ( with different players then 67)
Scott

[mikemb]

Also the second 'E' in Clemente.

Mike

[sflayank]

I know his is cut off the sheet
Cropping is meaningless
68 only difference mantle Brooks cepeda aaron
All others that appear in both sets are the same
If you sent both clementes in raw at the same time
Psa would label them both the same

[hcv123]

Easiest to see by the last "E" in Clemente - the 2 bottom arms of the "E" on the 68 go right to the edge of his jersey, the 67 you can see the white of his jersey past the 2 bottom arms of the "E".

PSA is certainly no expert when it comes to these, so what they would or wouldn't do is meaningless (though they did correctly label mine as a '68)- you asked to be shown the difference - you've been shown the difference

[hcv123]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

So does that mean the 1968 Topps Disc Ron Santo that you cut off of the same sheet that I bought from you is also a 1 of 1?

The only 68's I have seen more than 1 of are Rose (2) and Mantle (3). They are unquestionably more difficult than the 67's. There are some board members and collectors that have been around longer than I though that may have seen others.

Given that I have seen the 2 Roses (owned them both at different times) and 3 Mantles (I owned 2 of them at different times), it suggests the likelihood of others out there. Aside from Rose and Mantle, the ones that came off that sheet were the only examples of each I have seen.

[sflayank]

players like santo torre yaz are the same in both sets unless theres a millimeter difference...
aaron cepeda mantle and brooks are really the only different issues
if we collect minor cropping differences then every topps set from 52 up has 5000 cards in them

[bswhiten]

Other than proofs in my pc, these are my contribution.
I’m sure there are others out there, but I haven’t seen them.









Mick has at least 4 other only known examples that I wish I had

[G1911]

Originally Posted by sflayank

if we collect minor cropping differences then every topps set from 52 up has 5000 cards in them

Most Topps cards do not use several differently cropped images as a variation; there are some from certain sheet layouts like the 58 Bunning, but that's not a normal print defect that can happen. A different cropping of the image is a different design of the card. That it is small does not make it meaningless or non-existent.