What are these? 52 card set

[jcmtiger]

a 52 card playing card deck A-2 for spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds.

Small size 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 Black & white, looks like 1960-1970's players.
Blank back

Stars Kaline, Rose, Gibson, Mays. etc

others Richie Allen, Al Ferrara, Denny McLain, Cepeda etc

Thanks joe

[Wrigley Wax]

Those would be the Globe Imports Playing Card....more here

[jcmtiger]

Thanks for info. Looks like set was printed with 2 Ace of Clubs Allen and Yaz, don't have the Yaz.

Also 3 Ace of Spades, Mantle, Drysdale and Harrelson. Don't have the Mantle or Drysdale.

Joe

[cardinalcollector]

The cards are the same photos as the Nabisco Team Flakes cards from 1969 and the 1968 Sports Illustrated Posters. You could also find these sets in the crane machines from county fairs in the early 1970s.

[aelefson]

I love this set! I provided the updates to the standard catalog so that it now shows at least two printings. Yes, there are 3 ace of spades cards. There are also sets with red checkered backs. There are also two versions of most cards, one with team logos visible, and another with the logos airbrushed.

Here is a link to my first ever post on Net54 (March of 2005) that contains some additional details.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/15365...+Globe+Imports

There is also a nice set of women nudes in the same format and a Babe Ruth (that I think comes from a movie star set).

The Yaz is the only one I never found however a dealer I taught the details of the set to, did find a few and sold them for over 100.00 each. I think it is the hardest to find and most valuable. Most of the time you can find sealed sets (usually with the more common Harrelson variant) for under 10.00 (I once bought 50 of them for less than 2.00 each).

I also believe there are more back variations than plain white and red checkered (I think there might be a blue checkered back verion as well).

Sorry for the long and rambling post. I love this set because of how cheap it is, yet contains cards of multiple stars and hall of famers.

Yours in collecting,
Alan Elefson

[David W]

It would seem these would be quite easy to counterfeit using just
a good quality copier.

I've got a few of the Cardinals and often wondered if they were real.

[cardinalcollector]

Originally Posted by aelefson

I love this set! I provided the updates to the standard catalog so that it now shows at least two printings. Yes, there are 3 ace of spades cards. There are also sets with red checkered backs. There are also two versions of most cards, one with team logos visible, and another with the logos airbrushed.

Here is a link to my first ever post on Net54 (March of 2005) that contains some additional details.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/15365...+Globe+Imports

There is also a nice set of women nudes in the same format and a Babe Ruth (that I think comes from a movie star set).

The Yaz is the only one I never found however a dealer I taught the details of the set to, did find a few and sold them for over 100.00 each. I think it is the hardest to find and most valuable. Most of the time you can find sealed sets (usually with the more common Harrelson variant) for under 10.00 (I once bought 50 of them for less than 2.00 each).

I also believe there are more back variations than plain white and red checkered (I think there might be a blue checkered back verion as well).

Sorry for the long and rambling post. I love this set because of how cheap it is, yet contains cards of multiple stars and hall of famers.

Yours in collecting,
Alan Elefson

Alan, can you show an example of the checkerboard back? I've seen the listing in SCD, but have never seen an example. Of the 5 Cardinals in the set (Gibson, Brock, Flood, McCarver, Cepeda). I've only seen logo variatons of Cepeda and Flood. Thanks, Randy