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

[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?

[sealmark41]

Been an old and now a new thread. Curious if this "set" might now be for sale ?
I chimed in waaay back and am still interested.
Thanks a lot,
Sealmark

[D. Bergin]

Amazing Fred. I can't believe it was 14 years ago I started this thread. I do still have the original find of 17 cards and have probably grown more attached to them through the years.

I never did send them into SGC, as was hinted in this thread 14 years ago.

Never thought any more would surface. Glad some have, and with two more added to the checklist to boot.

I think I sent images of all the cards I had to Bob Lemke, and maybe a couple other people at some point. Looks like I didn't add them all to this thread, so will do so for posterity sake.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by 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?

Hi Fred,

I responded to your PM last week, and also sent you an e-mail to be sure. Not sure if you got either one. - Dave