1951 Hartford Chiefs Set (Brave's minor league team)

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Thanks Mark. Still holding out for more info.

If I were to submit to SGC does anybody know what I would classify these as?


- Dave

Dave,

Drop Brian Dwyer an email: bdwyer@sgccard.com. Ask him to have a look at this thread. Then ask him how to word the submission. He'll take care of you.


Jim VB

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

Dave,

Drop Brian Dwyer an email: bdwyer@sgccard.com. Ask him to have a look at this thread. Then ask him how to word the submission. He'll take care of you.


Jim VB

Thanks Jim. Just did so.



- Dave

[sealmark2]

Dave:

By virtue of the fact that there is no advertiser on the cards I suspect they were a team issue. I have seen similar sets and individual cards/photos from back in the day.

I am still very interested if you decide to move any of the cards but if not I hope that you are able to get the definitive information you are looking for.

Mark K. Bowers
mkbow2@surewest.net

[D. Bergin]

Heard back from Brian with a very nice response regarding grading. They would label them 1951 Hartford Chiefs and possibly put in the designation "Team Issue".

They are classified as over-sized so they would cost 20 bucks apiece to grade.

They are in real nice shape and I imagine they would grade out in the 7, 8 and possibly a couple in the 9 range. However I'm still not sure that would justify the cost on these.

Anybody want to convince me otherwise?

[Bob Lemke]

Hello Dave,

What a great find for those of us who love vintage minor league "cards." And especially those of us who are Braves' fans of the era.

I have not seen these before, and have no information about the completeness of the group you posted.

Can I have your permission to feature them in my Standard Catalog Update column on my blog and in SCD? Perhaps we'll get reports from other collectors if there are any others to be found.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Bob Lemke

Hello Dave,

What a great find for those of us who love vintage minor league "cards." And especially those of us who are Braves' fans of the era.

I have not seen these before, and have no information about the completeness of the group you posted.

Can I have your permission to feature them in my Standard Catalog Update column on my blog and in SCD? Perhaps we'll get reports from other collectors if there are any others to be found.

Hi Bob.

Absolutely! Let me know if you want any more scans.

As a background they originally came from the collection of a gentleman who worked at The Hartford Courant Newspaper as a typesetter.

Among hundreds of press photos were these cards. There were no other cards of any type in the collection. It's a leap but maybe the Newspaper issued them........I don't know.

It would be fun to see if there's any more out there.

Thanks.


- Dave

[whiteymet]

Hi Guys

Bringing this old thread back to life.

I recently picked up a 1951 Hartford Chiefs scrapbook. The Chiefs were a Boston Braves farm club in 1951 Beside the normal newspaper cut outs, ticket stubs loose programs etc were 19 of these uncatalogued 1951 Hartford Chiefs cards. Thankfully they were mounted in the scrapbook with the old photo corners and not glued in so they came out of the album very clean.

Dave who started this thread listed 17 he had. I am able to add two to the list. Ray Crone and Stan Glenn. See below.

Anyone else have any or can add to the checklist or is 19 the entire set?