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Great boxes! Is there any danger of someone selling them as "real?" (Talking about the ones that aren't fantasy boxes.)
Last edited by ocjack; 11-18-2023 at 10:41 AM. |
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I made way nicer ones than those that included the actual Jello packet inside the box. Yes someone could make some near perfect replicas but it would take a lot of equipment and knowledge in printing. You cannot make something that would pass as real to someone knowledgeable on them with a home printer.
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After some digging I found the very first items I ever bought from Bob. The top 2 Jell-O boxes are from Bob. He just sold the printouts on a full sheet of paper and I cut them out to the box size. Being a huge fan of the 89 Fleer Bill Ripken card the bottom one is one of my favorites that I designed.
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James Ingram Successful net54 purchases from/trades with: Tere1071, Bocabirdman, 8thEastVB, GoldenAge50s, IronHorse2130, Kris19, G1911, dacubfan, sflayank, Smanzari, bocca001, eliminator, ejstel, lampertb, rjackson44, Jason19th, Cmvorce, CobbSpikedMe, Harliduck, donmuth, HercDriver, Huck, theshleps Completed 1962 Topps Completed 1969 Topps deckle edge Completed 1953 Bowman color & b/w *** Raw cards only, daddyo! *** |
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Bob sent me a copy of the the Munson custom after I supplied him the image because he had misplaced his.
I too was inspired by the Jello boxes he created....... ] |
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Bob Lemk
I used to enjoy looking at his web page with all the " cards that never were",
the were well done |
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I did as well, always looked forward to the next card |
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Lemke cards
I managed to grab a few of his creations:
1952 Topps Paul Petit 1954 Topps Charley Pride 1954 Bowman Charley Pride I think they’re great. He did a helluva job.
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Checklist Lemke cards
I was wondering if anyone compiled a complete list of cards that Mr. Lemke produced? I was fortunate to purchase from him his cards of Charles Peete.
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I was never disuaded from purchasing and enjoying a few of Bob Lemke's fantasy masterpieces. The above 1963 JELL-O Black Raspberry with a variant photo of Mickey Mantle was a stroke of genius. The picture of Mickey was employed on JELL-O's large advertising poster adorning supermarket aisles to capture a kid's attention. I like the photo the General Foods' baseball card design team chose for Mickey in 1963. However, the gorgeous advertising poster photo was much more attractive, and so it was a great surprise to me when I saw Mr. Lemke thinking the same way. Thus, I bought Bob's 1963 JELL-O Mantle box creation, and chose to keep it flat as an unfolded box. I really cherish it. Three of my other Bob Lemke creations were from his 1955 Topps All-American Football set update series. Bob loved that set, and he slowly built his update series into well over 100 additions. There's a few I wish I had taken the time to buy, natch. Be that as it may, I really love and admire the Jackie Robinson, Bronko Nagurski, and Kenny Washington cards I got. Beautiful, just beautiful. Of course, I have been a fan and an admirer of a good quality fantasy / custom card creation. They're just as a Graig Kreindler limited edition print of one of his paintings, merely shrunken down to the size of an actual trading card, and perhaps more limited than the number of prints he makes. I never bought Bob's stuff thinking they would appreciate, but I simply loved them. Of course, over the course of my collecting life, whenever I bought something because I loved how it looked, THOSE have been the items that did appreciate. They are harder to part with..... Thanks for initiating this thread. Bob Lemke's work should not be forgotten. ---Brian Powell Last edited by brian1961; 11-18-2023 at 03:07 PM. |
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I first wrote to Bob when I was like 10 because I had some cards that weren't in the Standard Catalog for some 70's Sporting News and other sets that had incomplete checklists. He was a really great guy and did a lot for the knowledge end of the hobby.
Never bought any of his awesome fantasy cards, but I spent plenty of time checking them out on his site. Had to limit my collecting in some way, but I kind of regret it nowadays. |
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