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Old 09-17-2020, 07:05 PM
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Ted Zanidakis
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Default Printing of LEAF Sports cards

The 1948 LEAF Boxing set was issued in the Fall of 1948. I remember collecting these boxing cards back then. But I don't expect some of you
to take my word for this timeline.
Anyhow, the Tony Zale bio confirms my date line. His fight vs. Marcel Cerdan (Sept 21, 1948) in which he lost is noted on the back of his card.

Adam W. is correct, the WHITE cardboard stock was first. This was true also for LEAF's Football set in 1948. In 1949, LEAF switched to printing
their Sportscards on GRAY cardboard stock. The 1949 LEAF Baseball and Football sets are printed ONLY on GRAY cardboard stock.

Furthermore, the 1948 LEAF Boxing and Football cards were so popular, that LEAF continued printing them till the Spring of 1949. Resulting in
these two sets having been printed on both WHITE and GRAY cardboard.

Check-out the two Zale cards in my scan. Note the difference the brightness of the WHITE cardboard version vs. the Gray cardboard one. This
is true for all 49 cards in this Boxing set.






TED Z

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Last edited by tedzan; 09-18-2020 at 06:11 PM. Reason: Corrected typo.
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