Show your 1933-34 R313B Wheaties (updated with Scan)

[MikeGarcia]

[MikeGarcia]

They are identical in size to and have the same style handwriting as the ''standard 12'' from the world series teams --- I've seen a Megachecklist somewhere that has the Des Moines players listed as part of this set and subset ..... If Tim is still able to fog a mirror he'll chime in on this before midnight Sunday. I'll try posting some more scans later .

[MikeGarcia]

[fkw]

Exactly Mike, those are them , and WOW super nice condition!

I just wanted to see scans of a few so I can compere them with the Hudlin when it shows.

Thanks for posting.

PSA should have put "Foods" instead of "Flour", ..........they are sure living in the past

Gold Medal Foods = Wheaties

[jeffmohler]

Super nice cards Mike - If you don't mind me asking, where did you get them?

[fkw]

Here is a clip from an older post from 5 years ago...
that I wrote on May 31, 2006 post
It is basically from Tim Newcomb's article in issue #6 of OLD CARDBOARD.

It talks about both Gold Medal sets, the WS set of 12..... and the rarer group (like Klein, Averill, etc) as well


""To answer some of your questions (some info from the articles), the more commonly seen set of 12 Cardinals and Tigers World Series cards were issued as a promotion for Wheaties in 1934. The envelops have a return address for Gold Medal Foods, not Gold Medal Flour as they have been mistakenly called for years. 243,000 photos were mailed to 56,000 people between Oct. and Dec. 1934, fans received 1 card for each Wheaties box top. There is also an identical but far rarer group of cards (19 known so far) that match the Gold Medal Foods cards and these were thought to be have been offered to fans through radio broadcasts in Aug. 1933, and also the following summer. The Gold Medal Foods (Wheaties) cards are different from the R313 cards in that the name on front is more of a "Medium Pen" in size compared to the "Fine Pen" names of the National Chicle cards.""

[MikeGarcia]

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by jeffmohler

Super nice cards Mike - If you don't mind me asking, where did you get them?

------ The NM's were on E-Bay ; I think it was '' Zindler's''.
The beaters were scrounged at the usual sources , flea markets , estate auctions , moving sales , garage sales , etc. usually mixed in with National Chicle and Goudey Premium lots --- I'm happy to find even one every year or so--- I think Leon has the Al Simmons that Tim used in the article referred to in the other post ?

[fkw]

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Update, scans of the Hudlin card. I believe it to be one of the R314-2 Goudey Premiums and not the rarer R313B

The font and type of Pen on the R314-2 and R314-3 cards is usually much bolder and that what fooled me.

Oh well still a tough card, but not what I was hoping for.

[ethicsprof]

great investigative work and fun, anyhow, ole buddy.

all the best,
barry

[jeffmohler]

I have been looking for the Wheaties cards ever since reading about them in Tim Newcomb's Old Cardboard article. No luck whatsoever.

Frank, a couple of weeks ago, I thought I had spotted one too, an Al Simmons, but after further investigation is was one from the same series as your Hudlin.

I think Lew Lipset sold a bunch of the Wheaties cards a year ago or so. As I recall, they went for a good bit.