Legendary Auction Corn Flakes Set ??

slidekellyslide · #1 07-30-2011, 12:57 PM

Why would the cereal company use those catalog numbers on the cards? This doesn't make sense...it's obvious these are cut from the SI advertising piece. I've asked some of my veteran cereal box collecting friends and none have heard of this cereal...I also don't buy that it was a foreign brand...why put baseball and football cards on a foreign cereal box?? We need some answers from PSA and Bob Lemke...and perhaps Columbia City Collectibles.

GoldenAge50s · #2 07-30-2011, 01:04 PM

Some more info & explaination from Legendary is in order also!

#3 07-30-2011, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Why would the cereal company use those catalog numbers on the cards? This doesn't make sense...it's obvious these are cut from the SI advertising piece. I've asked some of my veteran cereal box collecting friends and none have heard of this cereal...I also don't buy that it was a foreign brand...why put baseball and football cards on a foreign cereal box?? We need some answers from PSA and Bob Lemke...and perhaps Columbia City Collectibles.

Oh, I agree it doesn't seem to make sense - I just wanted to offer that Champion Corn Flakes does exist (in India). I just did a quick surf, and apparently it's been around for ages, and the box backs often included premium cut-outs such as masks.

I also noticed that the Champion football cards offered on eBay and elsewhere apparently all have perforations (just 1 or 2 on each edge) - Mike Mossier describes them as "approx 2.1" x 3.2" - issued on boxes of Champion Corn Flakes � perforated card, one "perf" in each corner & middle of each side - as issued." Do the football issues use SI catalog numbers? If so, would the perforations be consistent with SI football advertising pieces?

slidekellyslide · #4 07-30-2011, 04:37 PM

So if the story is true then apparently Mohan Meakins (The maker of Champion Corn Flakes) used the SI poster shots along with the SI catalog numbers as cards on their box...which means they probably bootlegged the images without the players or MLB permission. I still want to see a box before I believe any of this though.

CowboysGuide · #5 07-30-2011, 05:29 PM

I'm familiar with the football issue of these cards. Not much is really known how they were distributed -inside boxes of Corn Flakes, or part of the box like the Post Cereal cards. The edges have perforation tabs as if they were attached to something. They were promotional items for the SI posters. That's why the #'s match their larger counter parts -the posters. They are a little smaller than a standard-size card and are blank-backed.

CowboysGuide · #6 07-30-2011, 05:38 PM

This is a blank front error that to me indicated that the cards preceeded the posters, because there was never an SI Lance Rentzel poster made.

sreader3 · #7 07-30-2011, 06:51 PM

FWIW, I checked the federal trademark database and could not find any evidence of an attempt to register the mark "CHAMPION" in connection with corn flakes, cereal (except one infant cereal) or breakfast.

CowboysGuide · #8 07-30-2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sreader3

FWIW, I checked the federal trademark database and could not find any evidence of an attempt to register the mark "CHAMPION" in connection with corn flakes, cereal (except one infant cereal) or breakfast.

Perhaps "Champion" was used as a description of the players covered in the set(?). "All-Star" could be another term they could have used.

dallen · #9 07-30-2011, 07:20 PM

These posts were pointed out to me so I thought it appropriate to comment.
First some background...an old time collector saw our recent sale of the "Champion Corn Flakes" football cards and brought to the attention of a dealer that he had acquired a collection of these baseball subjects decades ago. The dealer contacted us after examining the cards and coming to the conclusion they were in fact original and appeared legitimate. I asked that these be sent in for us to review. Myself and two of my staff examined the cards and came to the same conclusion and discussed the find with Bob Lemke. The collection included the 52 cards offered along with a hand-full of duplicates. The blank-backed cards are on white blank-backed card stock that match the "Champion Corn Flake" football issue. We concluded they were a "Champion Corn Flake" issue based on their similarities to that set. Although one may question this designation they are most definitely not a thin poster stock printed on both sides as the promotional piece produced by Sports Illustrated. I would be happy to answer any additional questions anyone may have.

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