Wheaties small
The series 14 and 15 are very scarce due to very limited distribution at the time of issue. They were not sold in grocery stores like the larger boxes were. These were single serving boxes that only were available on trains,hospitals and perhaps some restaurants. Few were taken home by the people who consumed them.
I have probably three or four from these series. I got Van Mungo from his family years ago.
There is a third series of these small cards that were issued in 1936 and were not cataloged because they were unknown at the time. John Spalding is who came up with these series designations back in the early 1970s. He and I talked frequently about Wheaties. At one of the Anaheim nationals I found two of these unknown 1936 minis and showed it to John who was very excited to see a series he had not seen before and I gave him one.
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