1978 RC Cola Iron-Ons

[philliesphan]

Are these plentiful? Do folks out there collect these?

Reason I ask -- You can seemingly find a few of the team sheets on ebay, which suggests that they are available.

However, I also know that PSA grades these and has for at least a few years. Just last week, I popped the first PSA 10 ever graded from this set: Mike Schmidt. Unsurprisingly, I had already submitted this example to PSA before, and they refused to grade it.

I digress. I've only seen two of the Mike Schmidt Iron-Ons in the past ~5 years. They just seem pretty scarce. From a PSA perspective, they have never graded a PSA 9 or PSA 10, until now. And across the whole set, every player submitted has only single digits graded in terms of examples, including players heavily collected like Nolan Ryan and Pete Rose.

Curious if anyone has insight -- I haven't seen much mentioned about these over the years-

Cheers
~m

[mrmopar]

I have a few team sheets. I have not seen a ton of them listed, at least not many Garvey versions. I like them and would add more to my collection if the right opportunity presented itself.

[sschauer]

I know they are pretty rarely seen for sale might be just because they are not popular except to the hard core player collectors. Not even sure how they were distributed I assume from a mail in offer?

Also curious if anyone knows about the iron ons with just the quaker logo and not RC logo. The auctions say quaker oats but think that is wrong it is just quaker made the iron ons but wanted to know if anyone has a checklist if it is the same as the RC one as only seen a handful of these.

This is a link to a quaker auction http://www.ebay.com/itm/1977-BILL-RU...=10&rmvSB=true

[sflayank]

just go to columbia city collectibles
youll see both quaker and rc..he has plenty of them

[mrmopar]

Just a guess, but maybe they were from a different year? I know that this happened sometimes, where an issue changes slightly during a year update. The RC Cola versions are definitely 1878, based on the copyright as well as the Quaker 78 logo. Maybe the non-RC versions are from 77 or 79 and were just less popular or fewer were issued as a test (77) or as the promotion was dying (79)?

Originally Posted by sschauer

I know they are pretty rarely seen for sale might be just because they are not popular except to the hard core player collectors. Not even sure how they were distributed I assume from a mail in offer?

Also curious if anyone knows about the iron ons with just the quaker logo and not RC logo. The auctions say quaker oats but think that is wrong it is just quaker made the iron ons but wanted to know if anyone has a checklist if it is the same as the RC one as only seen a handful of these.

This is a link to a quaker auction http://www.ebay.com/itm/1977-BILL-RU...=10&rmvSB=true