1951 Hirsch Clothing Stores Chicago Cubs Premiums
 

I picked up what I believe is a full set of these in August 2016 at a Buy-It-Now price that I couldn't pass up, and I didn't think much about them until someone recently put up one of the photos on eBay at a big price. In his description, he tells that they are extremely rare and only three Cubs were known. I did some research on them and found out that they were listed in the 2016 Standard Catalog of Vintage Cards, so I bought a copy on eBay to see what information the Catalog had. It only lists the three known photos of Hank Sauer, Johnny Schmitz, and Bob Schultz. My set has a neat light brown envelope/album to hold the photos, a photo with Manager Frank Frisch, and ten players. All photos have statistics or a write up on the back. I do not know if this constitutes a complete set, but I would imagine it is. I would have contacted Bob Lemke first about these, but he has unfortunately passed on.

The eleven photos are Manager Frank Frisch and players Phil Cavarretta, Cal McLish, Paul Minner, Andy Pafko, Bob Rush, Hank Sauer, Johnny Schmitz, Bob Schultz, Roy Smalley, and Rube Walker.

Very cool set you have there Cliff!

Cliff,

While I don’t know much of anything on these I love viewing the odd-ball type items and pieces I’ve never seen before. Very cool set.

Those are off-the-charts-cool!!!!

Here are the backs of the 11 photos. They are Frisch, and then the players in alphabetical order, Cavarretta, McLish, Minner, Pafko, Rush, Sauer, Schmitz, Schultz, Smalley, Walker.

Very nice--thanks for sharing.

The set alone is amazing. The envelope/album takes it to the next level!