Vintage Sports Cards – Baseball – Basketball – Football – Hockey
The marketing blitz is on for this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention, but for a bit of hobby history, here’s an ad for the 4th NSCC show, held at the Holiday Inn O’Hare-Kennedy in Chicago from July 7 to 10, 1983.
The ad is from the April 1983 issue of Trader Speaks.
Here’s the program for the show. More scans from inside of it another time!
I know almost nothing about soccer cards, particularly vintage ones, but I saw this Chix Bubble Gum Football Picture album for sale on eBay and decided to pick it up; the price was right for the hobby library. Inside is a complete 1956-57 Chix Confectionary Famous Footballers Set.
After some research, the set appears to be considered a second series of Chix Famous Footballers following one dated to 1955.
There are quite a few variations to the cards in this set and the album as well; I found this one with a different cover and red text on the inside.
If you know anything else about this set or the albums, please leave a comment.
I try to grab card company sell sheets when they come up for sale for the hobby library; I’m super happy to have picked up this rare one, a 1962 Bell Brand Dodgers salesman advertising sheet, a few months ago.
It was made to advertise the 1962 Bell Brand Dodgers set that was distributed inside packages of Bell Brand Potato chips and Bell Brand Corn Chips. The cards pictured on the front are those used in the 1961 set, though.
The back has more product info, images, and advertising text.
New to the hobby library. A 1937 D. C. Thomson & Co. Warriors and their Weapons Picture Album.
You could get a pair of free football boots when you saved up 70 different warrior cards, stuck them in the album, and sent them to Fleet Street in London. The back cover says the boots would be sent free of charge AND the album would be returned too.
Here’s a pair of interior pages.
