Show Us Your 1948 Signal Oil Oakland Oaks

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

I am just over the Pre War line here so please don't haul me before Congress to 'splain my actions....

Anyway Andy Cook had posted one of these in the BST (now sold) and I had never seen one before. It was one helluva nice looking card (Raimondi). So I thought I would beg for scans to be posted here. What a great looking set and would think one of the few to have nice color shots of the Oaks Players and ballpark.

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Posted By: leon

Per the rules

"Off topic posts are reserved for every day participants only. The participants involvement in the board determines the leniency in frequency of off topic posts. In other words the more you participate the more leniency you will receive in discussing off-topic material"

You are a very frequent particpant and get a lot of slack. Plus the less away from pre-WWII (and this barely is) the less strict we are. That doesn't mean everyone needs to test the boundaries; please. Here is my very-handcut 1948 Signal Gasoline, ACC# UO10. I think I bought it for a few bucks and didn't even care about the handcut. I just wanted a sample. This one is of HOF'er Ernie Lombardi. My collection is Pre-'50 so this is in my focus of collecting. Cool set.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Dave, you need to stock up on some PCL cards...

Leon, I don't have Lombardi, nice card. The cut doesn't bother me!

Here are mine...

Nick Etten, Charles Gassaway, Will Hafey (a cousin of Chick),
Ray Hamrick, Brooks Holder, and Cookie Lavagetto in the first bunch.




And in the next bunch are Robert Lilard, Dario Lodigiani (who was
great in the Moe Berg documentary), Billy Martin, William Raimondi,
Maurice Van Robays (who coined the word "Ephus pitch" after Ted
Williams hit that 'Ephus pitch' outa sight) and Duke Wilkie.

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Posted By: Chris Counts

Dave,

That picture of Raimondi is one of the best I think I've ever seen on a card. I really like this set. It has to be the first one that ever used real color photographs. Amazingly, they're relatively affordable, although many are off-register. I don't see too many on eBay, but they're pretty easy to find at the San Francisco Bay Area cards shows. Here's Casey Stengel, Billy Martin and Ernie Lombardi. Great thread ...

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Blue line down the center is from the scanner - it's not on the card.

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Love em too

PS. some consider the 1948 UO10 Signal Oil Oaks set to be one of the 1st color photograph sets ever...
(not including the 1944 Yankee stamps, or Cuban issue like the very rare 1946 La Ambrosia cards).