Anyone collect '50's Regionals?

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Posted By: Anthony

Does anyone here collect '50's regionals? In my mind, this was the golden age for regional sets. Whether issued with cookies, meat, potato chips, tobacco, or even dog food, this era had some of the best cards made.
Some of my favorites, in no particular order

'58 Bell Brand- ugly design, but great player selection, a couple of scarce ones (Podres and Reese) and 2 tough ones (Snider and Cimoli)
'54 Red Heart- a really clean design on this 33 card set, and again a solid player selection. The blue and green series are fairly easy, as you could still get them mailed to you as late as the mid '70s, but the red series can be a bit trickier. For some reason I found Snider to be considerably more off center than the rest.
'54 Wilson Franks- tough set, and with those narrow borders it's tough to find them centered. Can you imagine what a Mantle would cost?
'54 Dan Dee- '54 has got to be the peak of the era, and this set is just another example. Couple of short prints keep it interesting.
'52-'55 Redman- great design for one of the last tobacco issues.


A vegetarian in the '50's would've had a hard time collecting- Hunters, Felins, Glendale, Rodeo,Wilson, Morrells, and even Red Hearts for Fido.
Sticking to potato chips? Dan Dees and Bell Brands How about Soda? Hires Rootbeer had both their test set and the real one, and Coke had the same.
Cookies? Drakes, Mothers and Johnstons in every box. You can't live on bread alone, but if you did you've got Remars. And Uncle Bubba is even covered with Red Man's.

Here's a few of mine, whatcha got?