1961 Post Cereal Cards With Box

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Several months ago, I posted on the memorabilia side a picture of my c.1950 Kellogg's Corn Flakes back panel with the uncut Washington Nationals sun visor. That post elicited some wonderful similar cereal issues with the box intact, including an incredible 1940s Kellogg's Pep complete box with the celebrity rings offer containing an image of the Babe Ruth ring. Thanks to a Net54 member, I just got this 95% complete 1961 Post Toasties box including the panel of seven cards. In doing some research on this card set of 200 players from the 1960 season, I was surprised to come across just one other of these boxes, a mint condition flattened full box pictured in an article about the Post Cereal series. I found a few uncut panels, but no unopened boxes or even opened ones. I was interested to learn that my box was the very first of that generation of 1960s through 1980s cards on boxes of cereal and other products, and that there was an interesting twist to one of the cards on this box. Because the offer was issued in early 1961, they of course used players from the 1960 season, but in the meantime, the Washington team had moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul (the most devastating event of my childhood, by the way!) As explained in an ad taken out in Minnesota newspapers containing an abject apology, somebody at the company assumed that they would be called the "Minneapolis Senators," and used the city's name instead of the correct "Minnesota Twins" on the cards of former Washington players. Seems like small potatoes today, but it must have caused some kind of stink when the first printing came out on millions of boxes of Post cereals, because they actually went to the trouble of redoing the boxes for later printings to correct the "error." I love that the Bob Allison (a big hero of this D.C. kid, rookie of the year!) card pictured in the article is actually on my box. Anyway, I'm hoping this post will elicit other boxes or at least comments from collectors of the cards they were cut out of. I'm thinking this one will make a wonderful framed display as a companion to my Kellogg's panel.
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