Exhibit Cards
 

Gentlemen:

A question for you all on the 1977 Exhibit Baseball Great HOF reprint set. I have found two different versions in the green tint only.

One version has PRTD. U.S.A. in the bottom of the columns on each side of the photos while others have plain columns.

See photos below. Any info/ideas?

Do any of you have any of the other colors w/o the PRTD. U.S.A.?

I have Mize and Musial in blue, green, and sepia. The only card without PRTD USA is the green Musial. I don't consider this to be an Exhibit set. It was issued by Renata Galasso in 1976-77. She took the Exhibit format though.

I also found green versions of Hubbell, Hartnett, and Kaline all without PRTD USA.

Hi Randy:

Thanks for the info.

So I understand, are you saying the green tint w/o the PRTD. U.S.A. was produced by Galasso? While the others were not?

Fred

Fred, the 1948 Exhibit HOF set of 33 cards had 24 cards re-printed in 1974. The card stock is the only difference. The 1974 set is check listed in the 2011 SCD Almanac.

The Galasso set while it looks identical, is a different set all together. Galasso issued a 32 card HOF set as an incentive to buyers. The set was issued in sepia, blue and green tints. The set is check listed in the Beckett Almanac.

The Frisch scan is a 1974 Exhibit, the Mize scan is a 1976 Galasso. Also notice the difference in the typeface. There are also many players in the Galasso set that are not in the Exhibit set. I had never noticed the difference in the green tint until your post. Nice find.

The 3 sets get all mixed up on Ebay and by grading companies. The only way to know the correct issue is to identify card stock on back and typeface on front.

Randy:

I have the original 48 set in both B&W and Green tint.

I need some cards in the 1974 set in various tints as well as the 76 Galasso set. See wantlist below.

The "new" set I referenced without the PRTD. U.S.A. at the bottom of the columns seems to be a poor copy job on a little thicker stock, It is a reprint of the Galasso set of 32 from 1977. So far I have only seen this in green tint. Wonder if there are others out there?

WANTLIST:

1974 HOF EXHIBITS WITH COLUMNS AN EXHIBIT CARD LOWER RIGHT OR LEFT CORNER NO PRTD IN USA AT BOTTOM OF COLUMN 24 DIFFERENT:

BLACK: Alexander, Chance, Cobb, Cochrane, Frisch, Griffith, Grove, Hornsby, Jennings, Johnson, Mathewson, McGraw, Sisler, Tinker, Waddell, Wagner, Walsh, Young

BLUE: Chesbro, Clarke, Cobb*, Evers*, Fritsch, Hornsby, Johnson, Mack*, Mathewson, Tinker, Wagner, Young*

BROWN: Cobb, Hornsby, Johnson, Mathewson, Wagner

1977 Galasso HOF EXHIBITS WITH COLUMNS PRTD. U.S.A bottom of columns 32 DIFFERENT:

GREEN: Appling, Banks, Clemente, Dark, DiMaggio, Feller, Ford, Gehrig, Greenberg, Kaline, Mantle, Mays, Mize, Musial, Ott, Roberts, J. Robinson, Ruth, Spahn, Wagner, Williams, Young

BROWN: Berra*, Roberts

1980 HALL OF FAME EXHIBITS: HAS AN EXHIBIT CARD 1980 HALL OF FAME AT BOTTOM. SET OF 32

NEED ALL IN RED

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Hello everyone. My name is Eric and I am very excited to have just joined this forum today. I am a big fan of 1950's and 1960's and although I don't consider myself to be very knowledgeable since I am a newer collector, I love it and am learning more and more all the time. A good friend passed his collection to me and I have some of the Baseball's Great Hall of Fame cards. I believe they are from different editions as some have printed US on the front and some do not. You guys will know a lot more about them than me. They have not been taken out of the sheets though and are in great condition. Here are some pictures. Any info on these would be much appreciated. I look forward to talking with everyone more. Take care.

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Eric:

What you have above are two different Exhibit Reprint sets. The blue ones shown are from 1977 and have the PRTD USA at the bottom of the columns. This set has some players from the original 1948 HOF set along with newer players such as Mantle and Spahn. There are 32 cards in the set and were issued in Brown. Blue and Green tints.

The brown cards shown are a reprint of some of the 1948 set. These all have the AN EXHIBIT CARD in one of the bottom corners. There are 24 cards in this set that comes in Black, Blue and Brown tints. FYI the original 1948 set had 32 cards, 33 when you count two different poses of Babe Ruth.

You can fill in your sets easily or buy complete ones on ebay with not much trouble.

Good Luck!

Fred

Are the original HOF Exhibits regular card sized or the size of a Post Card like Salutations?

The original HOF Exhibit set is the same size as other Exhibits.