Let's see some 1940-60s Oddball issues...

[Volod]

Originally Posted by MilBraves

Let's keep the Spic and Spans rolling.

'55 die cut Aaron

'55 die cut Mathews

My favorite is the Spahn, which I have as my avatar.

Really like those die-cuts. Don't think I've seen them very much. Were they cut from the product box, or more like an insert? Maybe found originally only within a couple hundred miles of Chicago?

[ValKehl]

1948-1950 Safe-T-Cards, issued in Washington, DC. The Standard Catalog's description says, "A safety message is at top ..." But, obviously not all of the cards have this.
Val

[glenv]

'62 Gold Mine Ice Cream
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'56 Parkhurst
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'47 Morley Studios
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'47 Maxwell Hardware / '59 O'Keefe Montreal Royals
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'54 Vancouver Capilinos
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Carling Beer
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[Leon]

Here are a few Cleveland Sun Pictures...and a Connie Mack promo...

[Exhibitman]

1940 Associated Service Stations

[MilBraves]

I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by MilBraves

I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.

Thanks for the research, Scott. The dry-cleaning thing was something that never occurred to me. I was recalling boxes of Spic and Span powder and thought that was where the cards came from. I wondered about the distribution because they would seem to have been marketed in the Milwaukee area. As a Braves fan from when they were in Boston, I was on the lookout for Braves stuff as a kid in upstate NY, and the only other regional issue I saw was the Johnston Cookie cards, so I wondered if the Spic and Spans had turned up in other parts of the county.

[71buc]

Originally Posted by MilBraves

I talked to my father about Spic and Span cards (they released them from '53 through '60) and he said that the cards would be placed in with your dry cleaning order. Pick up a shirt and in the bag would be a card. Their clothing covers also had baseball players on them as well.

I can attest to the covers. I saw one in a local collection here in the NW about 15 years ago. The collector knew I liked oddball items and offered it to me for 100.00. I should have bought it but passed. If I reall correctly it was roughly the size and shape of the plasitc bags used by dry cleaners today. It was made of paper and on the front it had blue drawings of all of the players depicted in the set.