Legendary Auction Corn Flakes Set ??

[NATCARD]

I want the collecting world’s thoughts on this one. A set produced as recently as 1968 and never before seen pops up and has an astonishing estimate. The description is very clear and in depth but lacks one key piece of information as far as I am concerned. These "CARDS" look exactly like the 1968 Sports Illustrated advertising poster with the exact same "Catalog #'s" as the order form for the posters. Sounds pretty coincidental to me.
Here is an an image of the cross section of an SI poster:



here is a link to the lot description :
http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...nt)-%e2%80%93-

[brob28]

Nice work Jeff. I'd love to hear what those more knowledgable than I think of this.

[whiteymet]

Saw the same lot and thought the same thing.

And here is the SI poster: http://www.net54baseball.com/newrepl...ote=1&p=912881

I even did a google search for Champion Corn Flakes and could find nothing!!??

Anyone ever heard of Champion Cornflakes?

[e107collector]

After looking at Legendary's lot of cards, they don't appear to be hand cut, and have the same "factory-type" cut on each card. Slightly rounded corners on each

I would like to hear other board members thoughts on this subject.


Tony

[slidekellyslide]

As a cereal box collector I have never heard of that brand of cereal. I did a google search and I see lots of 1968 Football cards attributed to that brand as well. It's also odd..although I suppose not impossible that the reverse sides of these cards is white cardboard which is very unusual for a cereal box.

Show me a single "Champions Corn Flakes" box and I might believe it, until then I'm not buying it...and how did PSA come to slab these football cards??? Where is the provenance to slab these?

I see on the PSA registry that only one guy owns all of the PSA registered "Corn Flakes" football cards??? Even more suspicious...a cereal card that is *that* rare?

[slidekellyslide]

Here's a link where someone is selling the 1968 SI Posters but using cuts from the inserts because they are easier to photograph than the actual poster.

http://www.cardsprograms.com/servlet...-Sports/Detail

[Griffins]

Originally Posted by e107collector

After looking at Legendary's lot of cards, they don't appear to be hand cut, and have the same "factory-type" cut on each card. Slightly rounded corners on each

I would like to hear other board members thoughts on this subject.


Tony

I'd like to hear Bob Lemke's thoughts on this. The issues legitimacy will determine whether he puts it into the catalog or not.

[NATCARD]

If you read the description on the Legendary web site it states that this issue was discussed with Lemke and he is putting it in the next standard catalog. On another topic as for the FB version of this set, there must be a sample football poster out there similar to the baseball SI order poster. Columbia City Collectibles has quite a few raw FB on Ebay and they are amongst the best when it comes to obscure issues, maybe someone out there knows them and can get a response from them.
Thanks, JEFF W

[fkw]

everything looks like the cards were cut from the poster to me...

The narrow or nonexisting top border, and bottom border cut so close, the Mays shows the same exact ghost image of his name above the caption, the Clemente name is offcenter, etc.

plus like others said the backs dont look like cereal box card stock.

[philliesphan]

Originally Posted by NATCARD

If you read the description on the Legendary web site it states that this issue was discussed with Lemke and he is putting it in the next standard catalog.

Yes, that is certainly what Legendary's web site says....