1935 National Chicle Premiums

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by DezHood

Thanks Jeff - the guys parallel to the ground in the Fordham premium is pretty odd - I wonder if that was within the rules..... Fordham football - I remember in Art Donovan's book Fatso, that was his favorite team as a kid growing up in the Bronx, and I'm pretty sure it roughly corresponds to this time period - its interesting how many college teams that were big back in the day are no longer in the college football conversation.

Aside from the former president, was anyone ever able to pick out any faces in the crowd of stars or semi stars? The Gutowsky premium in theory may contain Dutch Clark or Glenn Presnell, but I don't see it.

Interesting question, John. I've been meaning to spend a little time looking up the numbers of the players you can see on some of these to figure out who they were.

Don't forget the Williams Shakespeare one I mentioned already ... he's not referenced in the text on the premium but it's definitely him kicking the ball.

My bet is that by now if there was someone else famous, somebody would have picked them out.

jeff

[jefferyepayne]

The last few Premiums from the set.


Nice action shot!


I dig the striped helmet.

jeff

[tuckr1]

Jeff do you have or have you ever seen a display box for 1935 National Chicles Football?? Or even a picture or any kind of display for this set??

[jefferyepayne]

I have not seen a box. I think I've seen other National Chicle boxes for some of there other non-football sets but don't recall ever seeing a football one.

jeff

[tuckr1]

Jeff do you have or seen original photos from the premium set?? I have seen the original art for the cards go at Auction but never heard of original photo from the premiums??

[jefferyepayne]

I don't know that I've seen one of those either. Anyone?

jeff

[TanksAndSpartans]

I searched some old AH listings thinking a box must have come up at some point, but no luck. I did find examples of the original artwork from the cards being auctioned off though - one of the write ups referenced a "find from the 70s that entered the hobby via a National Chicle employee" <- not an exact quote, but that was the jist of it.

This is probably a stupid question, but in what sense was the original artwork used to produce the cards? My understanding is that the paintings aren't huge - around 4x the size of the cards, but I just don't get what the next step would be once the painting was done......

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by tuckr1

Jeff do you have or seen original photos from the premium set?? I have seen the original art for the cards go at Auction but never heard of original photo from the premiums??

This jogged a bit of my memory. I had an original press photo of the Shakepeare shot awhile back. No longer have it any more, but it must be floating around out there somewhere.

[tuckr1]

Do you have any clue who you sold this photo too??

Would love to get an original from the premiums looks awesome!!!

Thanks Tucker

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

This jogged a bit of my memory. I had an original press photo of the Shakepeare shot awhile back. No longer have it any more, but it must be floating around out there somewhere.