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  eNews Issue #116 (December 2013)       www.oldcardboard.com

Please Note: If images are not loading in this email, click here. Welcome to Old Cardboard, the most complete reference resource for information about collecting vintage baseball cards and related memorabilia.  More information about this eNewsletter and its companion website and magazine are found at the bottom of this page. Contents: 1. Updated Auction and Show Calendar 2. Set Profile: 1962 and 1963 "Stats on Back" Exhibits 3. Latest Additions to the OldCardboard.com Website 4. Set Profile: 1888 H804-3 "Buffords" Trade Cards 5. News Briefs (A Digest of Recent Hobby Happenings) 1. Updated Auction and Show Calendar The following is a summary of vintage card events coming up in the next 30-45 days. For the most current listings on additional vintage card shows and auctions, see the Key Events Calendar on the Old Cardboard website. Have an event that needs to be on the OC Calendar? Email editor@oldcardboard.com.

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2. Set Profile: 1962 and 1963 "Stats on Back" Exhibits 1962 Exhibit (Ernie Banks) Now aged 50 years, the 1962 and 1963 Exhibit sets were produced near the end of a long run of sets issued by the Exhibit Supply Company that began in 1921. Unique among Exhibits, the 1962 and 1963 sets are particularly interesting to collectors because the player's personal and career statistics were printed on the backs of the cards. The "Stats-on-Back" Exhibits are similar in design to other sets of the period produced by the Chicago-based company. More specifically, they are almost identical in design to blank-backed Exhibit sets issued over a twenty-year span from 1947 through 1966. As shown in the example 1962 card at right for the Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame short stop Ernie Banks, the card fronts are printed without borders and with a simulated player's autograph printed on the image. The card fronts also include the familiar "Printed in U.S.A." tag line along the bottom edge. 1962 Exhibit Back (Banks; click to enlarge) Most of the 1962 card backs are printed in black ink as shown in the Banks example at left. Although less common, the 1962 card backs are also found printed in red. As seen from the example, both personal data (date and place of birth, height, weight, etc.) as well as career statistics by year are provided. Yearly career statistics include team and league, position played, number of games, at bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, and batting average. Statistics are shown through the 1961 season. 1963 Exhibit (Mantle w/auto) For 1963, the company expanded to a 64-card followup set with the same back design used for the 32-card "Statistics on Back" set of the previous year. Because Exhibit cards were printed in a larger format than most baseball cards, they were popular for use in obtaining autographs of the card's subject player. In the example card shown at right for Mickey Mantle, the Yankee's scoring champion autographed the card with a typical 1980's "blue sharpie" signature. By comparison with this "real" signature, it is clear that the simulated version printed on the card is not Mantle's. The back of Mantle's card is shown below. As seen from the example, both personal data (date and place of birth, height, weight, etc.) as well as career statistics by year through 1962 are provided. Unlike the "stat back" Exhibits of the previous year, all of the backs in the 1963 series are printed in red (as shown in the Mantle example below). 1963 Exhibit Back (Mantle; click to enlarge) The personal and yearly career statistics are provided in the same categories as the previous year, but are extended to include each player's statistics through 1962. Although the stat back cards were more popular with collectors than the blank-back Exhibits, this was the last year that player statistics were printed on the backs of Exhibit cards. Set Profiles and Checklists for both the 1962 and 1963 Exhibit sets are provided on the Old Cardboard website along with a full Gallery of the 1962 cards. In addition, an Exhibit "Gallery of Sets" that can be used as an identification guide for all of the popular Exhibit sets is also provided. OC eNewsletter Sponsor 3. Latest Additions to the OldCardboard.com Website We are continually expanding the Old Cardboard website with more set profiles, checklists and card galleries. Recent (past 30-40 days) additions include: Set Profiles have been added for: 1888   H804-3   "Buffords" Trade Cards 1963   W461   "Stats on Back" Exhibits Set Checklists have been added for: 1888   H804-3   "Buffords" Trade Cards 1962   W461   "Stats on Back" Exhibits 1963   W461   "Stats on Back" Exhibits (red stats) Set Galleries have been added for: 1888   H804-3   "Buffords" Trade Cards 1913   Voskamp's Coffee Pirates 1962   W461   "Stats on Back" Exhibits Updating the website with checklists and full set galleries for additional vintage sets is an ongoing project, so check back often to check out the latest additions. There are now many thousands of card images on the website and the list continues to grow every month. We welcome and encourage feedback with checklist additions, card images, error corrections and suggestions. Please send all input to editor@oldcardboard.com. Beyond the above pages recently added to the Old Cardboard website, we continue to expand and refine our eBay Custom Search Links to make finding vintage baseball cards on eBay easier than ever. The results of these searches are continuously changing, so check back often to find the most recent eBay listings. Samples of a few of these custom searches are provided below. Hundreds more are provided on the Set Profile pages throughout the Old Cardboard website. R-Cards (Goudey) 1933 Sport Kings 1934/39 Premiums R314 "Wide Pens" 1933 Goudey 1934 Goudey 1935 Goudey 4-in-1 1936 Goudey 1938 "Heads Up" 1941 Goudey R-Cards (Bowman) 1948 Bowman 1949 Bowman 1950 Bowman 1951 Bowman 1952 Bowman 1953 Bowman (B&W) 1953 Bowman (Color) 1954 Bowman 1955 Bowman (TV) (more custom searches by major card groups) 4. Set Profile: 1888 H804-3 "Buffords" Trade Cards The four cards that make up this set depict various game action scenes. Each is titled in the upper left corner in a small block print that appears hand lettered. In even smaller lettering along the lower left edge of the image is the notice "Copyright 1888 by The Buffords Son's Lith. Co." The number "801" is also printed at the bottom right of all cards. The series is listed in the American Card Catalog as set H804-3. The horizontally oriented cards measure 3-3/8 by 5-1/8 inches. Promotions for various sponsors are found printed in black and white on the card backs. Perhaps the most common is an ad for A & P Baking Powder and various other products distributed by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, importers based in New York. Ads by other sponsors are known including "Crawford Grand cooking ranges," "Dr. Swett's Root Beer" and more. The titles of the four cards in the set are: A Brush with the Ball A Short Stop Chance for a kick The Umpires lot not a happy one A Set Profile for the Buffords trade card set has been added to the Old Cardboard website along with a Checklist and Gallery of all four cards. 5. News Briefs (A Digest of Recent Hobby Happenings) 1940 Crowley's Milk Gallery Now Complete. When we profiled the obscure 1940 Crowley's Milk set in Issue #70 (February 2010) of the Old Cardboard eNewsletter, we were unable to locate card images to complete a Gallery of the full set. Thanks to Goodwin & Co. Auctions, we have now completed and posted the full Crowley's Milk Set Gallery on the Old Cardboard website. The full 18-card graded set sold last month in a Goodwin & Co. Auction. OC Article Index Ready for the New Year. The Article Index of vintage baseball cards has been updated and is now current through the two mini-articles in this eNewsletter. The Index now includes more than 1000 articles from not only Old Cardboard magazine and the OC eNewsletter, but from earlier hobby publications such as Sports Scoop, the Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector (VCBC), Lew Lipset's Old Judge newsletters and more. The vintage card research tool can be accessed from the Article Index link on the Old Cardboard home page. Lyman and Brett Hardeman Old Cardboard, LLC. Old Cardboard, LLC. was established in December 2003, to help bring information on vintage baseball card collecting to the hobbyist.  Produced by collectors for collectors, this comprehensive resource consists of three components: (1) Old Cardboard Magazine, (2) a companion website at www.oldcardboard.com and (3) this eNewsletter. The Old Cardboard website contains more than 500 pages of descriptive reference information for baseball card sets produced fifty years ago or longer.  Each of these set summaries has a direct set-specific link to auctions and a similar link to 's powerful search engine for further research.  The website also includes a Show and Auction Calendar, an eBay Top 50 Vintage Sellers List, and much more.  As a result, the Old Cardboard website makes a great "Alt-tab" companion for vintage card shoppers and researchers.  Old Cardboard eNews provides current hobby news, upcoming shows and auctions, and updates to the website and the magazine.  It is published around the middle of each month.  For a FREE subscription to the eNewsletter, or for subscription information on Old Cardboard Magazine, please visit the website at www.oldcardboard.com.  If you find this information resource helpful, please tell your friends.  We need your support and your feedback. Thank you.