Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
Here’s the original artwork used as the foundation for the 1957 Topps Football Paul Hornung rookie #151.
The flexichrome, a full-color painting on a black-and-white photograph, is 3-3/8” x 4-3/4”, larger than the finished card. The back of the art piece has working pencil marks and adhesive residue.
The item came from the 1989 Guernsey’s Auction, where Topps sold a large portion of their archives.
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This 36-card uncut production sheet of 1950 Bowman football cards is a legitimate work of art. I definitely need to pick up an early Bowman-era sheet to display in the Hobby Library.
It consists of cards 109 through 124. Card 144 in the bottom right corner is missing a piece, and there is also a stain, mostly evident from the back, which affects four cards.
Lelands sold the following pair of 36-card uncut sheets in December 2001 for $1491; one is the same but without the missing piece.
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