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Thread Title: 1952 Wheaties Champions Panels
Created On Wednesday January 06, 2010 9:09 AM

TonyC
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 9:09 AM

Does anyone have any information either about the panels themselves or their value? I found one eBay auction, but the five I have pictured below are in much better shape.

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thedutymon
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 10:41 AM

Good Morning,
Let me put it to you this way.......................

Can you Say KaChing KaChing!!!!!!!!!

At the very least they are worth Several Hundred each !! Most likely much much more!!!!!!!!!!

Neil

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Stone193
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 2:28 PM

Those are incredible Tony!

Tho - if properly cut out - and if clean with no creases - would do very well - graded, I would be tempted - if I owned them - to have them framed.

For those who don't collect these, notice that he has some of the players in both "portrait" and "action" shots - like Ted Williams, Roy Campy, Bob Feller....

Not sure of the value but I would be proud to have them - that's fer sure!

mike

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Edited: Wednesday January 06, 2010 at 2:30 PM by Stone193

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Aric
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 2:41 PM

Very cool. How many different boxes were there? I see the female golfer in the first one is also on the third. Were any others double printed?

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bobsbbcards
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 2:51 PM

Wow! Very, very nice. I would love to find some panels as nice as those.

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divecchia
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 2:57 PM

If I collected those I would pay $500 for them.

For what it's worth...Donato

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PoppaJ
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 3:12 PM

Hi Tony,

Those panels are absolutely beautiful!

Not sure of their monetary value, but they sure do bring back a few breakfast memories for me.

Back in the early '50s, we had cereals like Kix, Shredded Wheat, Corn Flakes, Pep and Wheaties.

I actually ate cereal from those Wheaties boxes when I was a kid. Since there were no Mantle cards on any of the boxes, they were thrown away without the cards being cut from them.

Thanks for sharing,
PoppaJ

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Wednesday January 06, 2010 4:01 PM

I had some of those a few years back. I seem to recall getting around $250 apiece for them on ebay. Hope this helps.

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Stone193
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 4:15 PM

<< I actually ate cereal from those Wheaties boxes when I was a kid. Since there were no Mantle cards on any of the boxes, they were thrown away without the cards being cut from them. >>

Wow Poppa! How old were you in '52?

I'm one of the senior guys here and I was 5 at the time and definitely do not remember the product to be honest.

mike

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PoppaJ
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Wednesday January 06, 2010 5:33 PM

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<< I actually ate cereal from those Wheaties boxes when I was a kid. Since there were no Mantle cards on any of the boxes, they were thrown away without the cards being cut from them. >>

Wow Poppa! How old were you in '52?

I'm one of the senior guys here and I was 5 at the time and definitely do not remember the product to be honest.

mike >>

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Hi Mike,

I'm so old, I remember when rainbows were black and white!

I walked into an antique auction last week and three people bid on me!

My birth certificate is in Roman Numerals!

I'm so old, I fart dust!

Let's just say I could be your older brother and leave it at that

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