Overland Candy - DATE of ISSUE challenge - 1936-1943??

[glchen]

All of the ones that I've owned in the past don't give definitive infos on the date issued like the Gordon one. (Currently, I only have the Gehrig one left.)

[leftygrove10]

Here is the Grove. Funny thing is, he never won 20 games in each year for a stretch of 8 seasons. I don't know where that stat came from. And all of these wrappers state their height and weight. Too bad you can't use that to pin down the year. I know Lefty put on weight late in his career and weighed 190 rather than the 175 that is often quoted for earlier in his career.

It is also annoys me a little that he is shown in an Athletics hat, but the team name under his name is the Red Sox.

Here are his statistics from Baseball Reference....

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...rovele01.shtml

[h2oya311]

Do any players have wrappers issued with and without ingredients?? I still think the early wrappers don't have ingredients and the later ones do.

At this point I think we're definitively at 1936-1942 as year of issue, with 1936-1943 as a plausible date range. Perhaps we can narrow down the w/ and w/out ingredients variations before all is said and done. It's tough with so many trimmed ones out there.

[leftygrove10]

Legendary Auctions auctioned a lot of these back in May 2011. See the link below. Perhaps these will help you pin down the year.

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...her-Hall-of-Fa

[toppcat]

That Gehrig is super nice for a 10!

[Leon]

Interesting stuff, guys. I never took notice of the different types of these wrappers. None of the four of these (in this post) have the ingredients on them. These are all approximately the same size but the scans aren't. The Appling and maybe the Foxx is trimmed. I am not a condition freak but want them to look decent. The years debate is a good one too. Seems like the dating of R301 might need to be changed in the guides?

[ValKehl]

My only example, "Schoolboy" Rowe, doesn't shed any light on the issue date. But, I would be glad to trade this one for a Washington player in similar condition.
Val