Upper Grade M101-4 Hooper Goes Crazy at HA.

oldjudge · #1 02-27-2025, 02:30 PM

Great set, but I think some of these blank back 8s may have come from uncut sheets that were later cut up. Blank back 8s are around but ad back 8s are virtually non-existent. I think part of this reflects post production sheet cuts.

nolemmings · #2 02-27-2025, 03:15 PM

Interesting, Jay. I am not so sure but cannot say. I never thought they were recently cut-- do you have thoughts on that? I always wondered if not suspected that many sheets were printed for distribution that simply were not ordered, and that the surplus may have made its way into the public whether as sheets or singles. Still, I believe this happened relatively close in time to their initial production. I have not seen anything to suggest that there was some warehouse or similar find decades down the line, have you?

oldjudge · #3 02-27-2025, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by nolemmings

Interesting, Jay. I am not so sure but cannot say. I never thought they were recently cut-- do you have thoughts on that? I always wondered if not suspected that many sheets were printed for distribution that simply were not ordered, and that the surplus may have made its way into the public whether as sheets or singles. Still, I believe this happened relatively close in time to their initial production. I have not seen anything to suggest that there was some warehouse or similar find decades down the line, have you?

Hi Todd! I didn't mean that they were cut recently. However, I did see a few NrMT blank back sets pop up in the early to mid-90s that looked like they had been sheet cut.

packs · #4 02-27-2025, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by oldjudge

Great set, but I think some of these blank back 8s may have come from uncut sheets that were later cut up. Blank back 8s are around but ad back 8s are virtually non-existent. I think part of this reflects post production sheet cuts.

I don't know that I would agree. My thought is that the blank back and Sporting News cards were most likely distributed via mail in promotion, similar to the 1915 Cracker Jacks or M116 cards the Sporting News also produced.

But an advertiser like, say, Gimbels,, would have likely given them out by hand on location, which might explain the inherent condition issues and lack of high grade examples.

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