The Nonsport Mailroom -- Scans Included

XanaduNow

Okay, okay, okay ... I'm blatantly stealing this idea from Stone over in the sportscard forum but I'm only doing it because it's a great idea and my favorite thread to read. So Mike, if you're reading this, take it as a tip of the hat.

I've got a bunch of stuff on the way but these two Dixie Lids showed up at my door today. The Duke I got for about 40% less than what I've seen these go for raw (shipping included ) so I was very happy with that. The Brando I probably over-paid a bit but it was the first one I had come across and I'm a HUGE Brando/On The Waterfront fan.





Arthur

Archaninator

I have a Dixie Cup Brando for sale, if you are interested.

On another post of yours, I replied with the cheap price!

rbdjr1

Just wanted to help 'kick-start' Arthur's thread with a couple of scans.

This is one of my favorite sets. A 1934 German set: Garbaty Moderne Schonheitsgalerie ("Modern Gallery of Beauty Series 2). This is a 300 card set, in my opinion, some of most beautiful looking cards in existance!

I just randomly picked-out two from this set to scan.

rd

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

rbdjr1

Are these circa 1979 packs tuff to locate?

rd


edit: none graded by PSA

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

XanaduNow

Ida Lupino ... NICE! On top of directing some Gilligan's Island episodes she was also in a great film called The Big Knife (w/ Jack Palance, Rod Steiger and the incomparable Everett Sloane) that was directed by Robert Aldrich who was a great noir director. She starred opposite Bogie in High Sierra (which was written by the great John Huston and produced by Hal B. Wallis). She put together a nice little career and ended up in B-movies towards the end.

I don't know much about Jessie Mathews

Nice cards Bob. Thanks for sharing.

Arthur

I don't think those Black Hole packs are that rare. I've been snooping around the nonsport corners of the world lately and seem to see a decent amount of those for relatively cheap.

MorrellMan

Great idea - I just got a couple things today worth sharing, but, since I'm at the office, I'll share something I got yesterday. This is a Hires Root Beer card that was issued in the same manner as the mid '50s baseball cards. I'm thinking it's the same vintage as well, but I'm not sure:

XanaduNow

MorrellMan,

If that is from the 50s it is in outstanding condition. Nice find!

Arthur

rbdjr1

Old Cuban Susini Photo Album

Here are a few pages from this book containing a collection of cigarette cards from "Henry Clay and Bock & Co. Lim. Habana"

rd

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

speeder

Hi All

This is the one and only Shirley Temple Garbaty card graded by PSA.

Keep it under your hat but, its for sale on the bay !



Lee

XanaduNow

How 'bout a linky to the auction?

Arthur

rbdjr1

<< <i>Hi All

This is the one and only Shirley Temple Garbaty card graded by PSA.

Keep it under your hat but, its for sale on the bay !



Lee >>



Lee, yours looks much better than a PSA 6! Mine looks like a six!

rd

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

LINK TO LEE'S SHIRLEY TEMPLE AUCTION

rd

XanaduNow

Thanks Bob!

Arthur

rbdjr1

Blonds!

rd

edit: I think from: 1934 or 1935?

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XanaduNow

Just got a batch of over 150 30s German cinema tobacco cards. To be honest, for the price I paid I didn't expect to get anything of any real importance but I was thrilled when I went through them and found 3 Dolores Del Rio and a Marion Davies. Those alone made my purchase price worth it.

Sorry about the scans.

Arthur

These were my favorites ...

rbdjr1

stuff!

rd


CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

XanaduNow

Wow. Tell me when you put those up for auction (if you ever do). Nice cards. My hope was to pull maybe one Marlene Dietrich but that is a beautiful collection.

Arthur (very jealous)

XanaduNow

Got this today. 1926 Cinema Stars



Arthur

MorrellMan

<< <i>Old Cuban Susini Photo Album >>


Very nice - I've never seen them before. Is there corner damage where the cards slip into the album?


I got this about a week ago, 19/20 near set of E49 American Caramel Wild West cards. 10 cowboys including Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, Custer & Kit Carson and 10 indians including Sitting Bull, Chief Lone Wolf, etc.

My set is missing the Daniel Boone card.

rbdjr1

<< <i>

<< <i>Old Cuban Susini Photo Album >>


Very nice - I've never seen them before. Is there corner damage where the cards slip into the album?


I got this about a week ago, 19/20 near set of E49 American Caramel Wild West cards. 10 cowboys including Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, Custer & Kit Carson and 10 indians including Sitting Bull, Chief Lone Wolf, etc.

My set is missing the Daniel Boone card.

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Most of the corners are ok, some of the cards have a sort of "toning" where the corners are exposed to the air. Here is a pic of a "back page":

rd

P.S. I love your Carmel set!

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

MorrellMan

<< <i>P.S. I love your Carmel set! >>



Thanks - I realized the dinky scan didn't do the set justice - it's crisp and clean with sharp corners throughout.
If PSA ever comes up with a proper holder for "N" cards, which are slightly larger than T206s, I'll send the whole set in to get graded.

Griffins

Mark- how about posting some of those American Beauties?
Or the Dukes- the set that you sent me a couple of.

MorrellMan

Here's a link to my "Tied for #6" registry set as well as a couple sneak peaks.
BTW - shameless plug: I have a bunch of these for sale in my ebay store. 10% off all prices to board members.

XanaduNow

More tobacco cards.

Picked up a complete set of 1938 Churchman Kings of Speed. The Owens caught my eye but I was sold when I saw there's a card for filmmaker Howard Hughes. Of course, I think they included him in the set for his avaiation accomplishments and not his films.










Arthur

XanaduNow

Mailman brought these today. The Bogart is a reprint but I got it absurdly cheap and I love Bogart. The Bergman is from the '82 HOF set. I'm curiouus to find out if these both actually have original versions from the 40s or 50s as I haven't seen them for sale yet (part of the reason why I picked up the reprints).



Arthur

rbdjr1

<< <i>Hi All

This is the one and only Shirley Temple Garbaty card graded by PSA.

Keep it under your hat but, its for sale on the bay !



Lee >>



Lee, I don't know about you, but in my opinion a PSA 6 is not good enough. I know I'm only looking at a scan, but even so, it looks really great.

It should sell! good luck!

rd

CLICK HERE AND LISTEN!! The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

XanaduNow

White Heat baby!



Another Chaplin



Arthur

MorrellMan

Nice Chaplin - it looks similar to Willard's Chocolate cards. Is that what it is?
Here are a couple of not-too-often seen issues:

1953 Wheat Chex/Rice Chex Space Patrol card - "Solar Disintegrator Ray"; ACC designation F280




1948 Bowman Movie Stars set, card #5 Margaret Field, better known as Sally Fields' mother:

XanaduNow

The Chaplin is a 1934 Wills Film Stars

Arthur

ColleSystem

Its not a card, but it just arrived. It is an upgrade to my origingal star wars action figure collection. It is a 12 Back-A Stormtrooper, graded AFA 80.

-Scott

XanaduNow

Got another Howard Hughes is the mail today



Arthur

Bunker

I just read this thread for the first time today and all I can say is... Wow! I love those. I have some non-sport cards, but nothing like some posted here.

I look forward to more cards being posted!

Cubfan

I havent posted anything here yet. Here is one Ive shown before, still one of my favorites.

XanaduNow

WOW.

Cubfan, did you submit that yourself or buy it slabbed? There's got to be a story behind that card. Very, very nice.

Arthur

Cubfan

Arthur, That was a self-submission (as are about 95% of my movie cards). I purchased this set as it was advertised as superb. When I got it I had to be careful as the cards were almost stuck to each other as the reverse side had adhesive for albums over the print. If you check my registry set, every card was from that same single set. There were only about 4 or so that would not get an 8 or above, so I did not send it in. But the rest, including another 10, were from that set and in top notch condition. Great set with lots of color. All the cards are scanned on the registry set.

XanaduNow

Keith,

Amazing. Very impressive. Are you still trying to complete that set? The raw set that you purchased, did you get it on eBay? Have you tried going back to the same well again?

Thanks for sharing.

Arthur

XanaduNow

These came yesterday. 1934 Godfrey Phillips "Film Stars"

Marlene Dietrich


Dolores Del Rio


Arthur

XanaduNow

I picked up two sets recently, each one consisting of 20 cards.

First one is the 1991 Victoris Gallery "Legends of Hollywood" set. It's a modern set with little monetary value but the card design is beautiful with a great selection of some of my favorite actors/actresses. Here are a few of my favorites ...






The next one was a personal find of great importance, the Cecil Court "Famous Film Directors"

Film directors are my equivalent to others' sports heroes and finding cards of them is damn near impossible. Again, I think the card design of these cards is absolutely beautiful with stunning artwork. These three from the set are my Mantle/Mays/Ruth with the Orson Welles being the Honus Wagner of my nonsport collection. You know what they say ... one man's trash ...



Arthur

MorrellMan

Godfrey Phillips must have made god-awful cigarettes, because some of their sets are much harder to find than the Carreras and Players sets of the day. I like the Dietrich and Del Rio cards; I don't know if I've ever seen that set. Here are two cards, the first and the last cards of the set, from the 1930 Cinema Stars set. I got 27 of 32 a few years ago and I haven't seen a single card since. I wouldn't mind finishing this set.

ChrisC

My first non-sport set, 1927 Churchman's "Pipes of the World" set of 25.[L=null]

ldferg

chrisc,
i think pandrews has each of these original pipes at his house...

btw, very nice cards.

ChrisC

David - Thanks, a great "different set" i thought was cool.

pandrews, I am sure would only collect the pipes

RobBobGolf

78 Donruss Kiss just arrived

RobBobGolf

Also another Kiss and a Star Trek

And two for AV

ChrisC

RobBob - I never saw those Donruss cards before, very cool. Are the Kiss cards hard to come by? Dont remember seeing them as a kid.

Chris

ArnyVee

Those KISS cards are awesome! '78s and very off center just like the Elvis cards. I'll probably do the KISS set when I finish the Elvis set. Rob, I want those Elvis cards!

halosfan

I recently got these in and am starting this run of cards.

Elemenopeo

Just found this thread. Love it. Put me down for a subscription.

tkd7

Back from PSA

ArnyVee

Halos,

Those pinup girl cards are very cool. What do those run you?

halosfan

Arny ... there don't appear to be all that many graded as of yet. The cost is low (5-12) for a nice looking run. There are some that will trend much much higher.

djspann

I hadn't seen this thread out for a while, so, here's to keeping it on the board!

Here's probably my toughest Skybird -- the last card. The PSA 1 grade is, I think, due mostly to staining and a bit of paper loss on the back.



Doug