Show us your BB card Uncut sheets, panels, etc.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Complete 36-card sheet of the 1949 Bowman 4th series cards....Seven 36-card sheets comprise the entire set.


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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- where is my 1953 Bowman color sheet when I need it? (Ted helped me buy it)

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Posted By: jim

Ruth in the "card section" and Ruth and a young Gehrig in the "team section".

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Now, we are "cooking"......this is one aspect of our hobby which has remained unaffected by
the "plastics" industry.

Barry.......I told you to hold onto that 32-card 1953 Color sheet (cards #65 - 96). Just think
what it would be worth nowadays ?

TED Z

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Posted By: Trae R.

Does anyone have a scan of that T206 strip with Wagner on it? That thing is super cool!

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Posted By: barrysloate

There's a lot of things I should have held onto.

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Posted By: Chris Mc

It's got a acc number but not sure what it is.

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Posted By: Griffin's

Nice sheet Ted! If the color is as rich and saturated as it comes up on my monitor it must be stunning.
I've got the more common low series one with the double printing on the back, but it's not nearly as colorful.

Here's a low series '41 sheet-

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Posted By: Robert S

Found it at last year's National (another board member grabbed the other two). This one may be a bit too long even though I shrank the image size by 50%. So, shrink further or remove if you wish, Leon:



So, do I use a scissors or an exacto knife to cut these?

....Just kidding....

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Posted By: barrysloate

Robert- that is a fantastic piece. I wonder how it has remained in such nice condition considering its shape. It looks like a fold out postcard but doesn't seem to have a single bend in it. Pretty cool!

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Posted By: Robert S

All three of the W strip card strips the seller had were stored rolled up. I left this one rolled up, should it be flattened and framed? When laid flat it curls a bit, but not much.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

W560 with Lou Gehrig....Walter Johnson....Lefty Grove rookie.....

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

These were issued in 8-card strips and this scan depicts the half that Joe DiMag is on.




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Posted By: Robert S

Only four ballplayers, but they chose pretty well -- all four made the HOF: Gehrig, Lazzeri, Simmons and Heilmann:

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Posted By: martindl

Not too much demand for this one, 1923 German Baseball Transfers, but has HOF's Alexander, Cobb, Ruth, Speaker, etc. There are 12 uncut sheets.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

1952 Bowman 1st sheet of the LARGE set......includes Sammy Baugh, Y. A. Tiddle, Otto Graham, Doak Walker, Paul Brown, Charlie Trippi, Charlie Justice,
and Frank Gifford rookie,.

Extremely rare sheet.....probably unique.



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Posted By: Joey

Now resides in a nice frame with front and back glass. This one is a little unqiue as 49 Bowman sheets go since the backs are not over printed.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

You are correct....your 1949 Bowman 1st sheet is unusual, since it does not
have the overprinted backs.
I have this same sheet with the usual overprinted backs from the 3rd sheet.

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Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted

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Posted By: Max Weder

Rob

The board member who bought the other two just has lousy photos of his strips

Max





I have kept them rolled so far, but am debating whether to get them framed.

Max

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Posted By: Clint

Ted, I'm still drooling over that 52 Bowman Large sheet. As a kid I loved the Bowman issues but couldn't afford the baseball cards. Nobody wanted football cards back then so I was able to get them cheap. That truely is a treasure, great piece.

-Clint

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Posted By: Chris Mc

Ted, beautiful piece, Thanks for sharing, very cool!

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Posted By: Robert S

Didn't want to name you in case you didn't want to be known...

...especially since your two strips are rarer, seeing as according to the photo you posted they were all printed upside down !

Robert

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

You must be referring to the early '80s when FB and BasketBall cards were going very cheap.
I found this 1952 FB sheet in a Hobby store in Media, PA in 1984. In addition, I acquired all
the Bowman BB sheets from the same store. An employee at this store had a family member,
who worked for the old Bowman Gum Co.

If you're interested, I wrote an article on the 1952 Bowman (LARGE) FB set in the SCD issue
of Jan 3, 1986.

TED Z

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Posted By: Darren

added this one to my collection courtesy of the moderator dude(Thanks Leon!)

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Posted By: Clint

Ted, Would love to read that article if you have a copy. Yeah in the late 70's early 80's football was cheap. I had dealers tell me football would never be worth anything. Here's my email: lhromek@cox.net

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

This is the 3rd series of 36 cards in this set....notice that 17 of the cards are short at least
two color passes in the printing process. The SLATE colored backgrounds should be either
ORANGE or GREEN pastel colors.

The 1949 Bowman set comprises of many Rookie cards and HOFers......in this series we have
HOFers Campy, Mize, Rizzuto and hopefully (this March) Gil Hodges. The cards of Campy and
Hodges are also their Rookie cards.



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Posted By: fkw

I also have a couple of the W573 strips, I have the Groh-Sheely and also a Schultz-Gowdy. A few years back I also had one that had the Alexander on it. I have owned 4-5 of them over the years and at least 2 were obtained rolled up.

I dont think the strips were sold to kids this way. I have always thought the strips (cards) came out of a machine of some type one at a time and torn off. Thats why so many of the W501, W573, W575-1 cards are found with slightly angled rough cut top and bottom borders.

The 2 W573 strips I own are framed together and were part of the Barry Halper auction.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

A 9-card panel from the 1959 Fleer Ted Williams set....featuring the very scarce #68 card...."Ted signs for 1959".



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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Too large for my scanner, thus a split view of this complete 36-card 5th sheet of the set (cards #145-180).







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Posted By: davidcycleback

This is a promo/advertising sheet for the set. The cards are life size.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I forgot to answer you......the colors are actually more vivid on my 4th series Bowman sheet than
the scan shows.

Now, my question for you......regarding your neat 1941 Play Ball sheet, is it the "paper" issue ?

If so, I thought that GUM, Inc. issued this as a 24-card adv. piece; which included Ted Williams ?

So, is yours a partial sheet......or, where there two 12-card sheets ?

TED Z

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Posted By: Griffin's

Ted-
Yes, it's the paper issue. As far as I can tell, there were 2 sheets of 12 printed- 1-12, and 13-24. I've seen 5 of the first 12 offered in the last 7 years, and 2 of the second 12. I've never seen a sheet with all 24.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Two darn good pitchers throughout the 1950's. HOFer Robin Roberts of the Phillies "Whiz-Kids".
And, Billy Pierce of the "Go-Go" White Sox. Billy ended his career with SF Giants in 1962-64.


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