1935 Diamond Matchbook Movie Stars PURPLE - Jean Arthur
| Grade |
EX/MINT to NEAR MINT |
| Book Value |
n/a |
| Our Price |
$ 11.95
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Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting.
Please wander around the website for more info, prices, values & images
on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.
1952/1953 Bowman
TV/Radio Stars of NBC
(R701-14 and R701-15)
1952 and 1953 Bowman "TV & Radio Stars of NBC" card sets captured the
culture of the early television/radio era, featuring NBC's most popular
and entertaining names of the day. The cards were a slightly taller 2.5 x 3.75 inches.
1952 card backs were horizontal while the 1953 backs were vertical.
After the success of their 1952 set, Bowman released a much larger 1953 set
with including more TV stars like Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Sid Casear, Dinah
Shore and others. The set also included a card for a child actor Ronnie Walken.
You may know it better as Christopher Walken's ROOKIE card !!!
Another popular card is chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs ROOKIE card.
The Today Show started in 1952 and when it was under-performing, they brought in J. Fred Muggs
as a co-host. Jim Fleming, the newsreader for the show, quit in protest.
Muggs the chimp was quite worldly and knew over 500 words and had a wardrobe of 450 outfits.
Producer, Richard Pinkham, once estimated Muggs brought his network $100 million.
Muggs was also an artist and in 1958 one of his finger paintings became the cover of Mad Magazine #38.
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1933-1934/1941 Skybirds (R137-Goudey)
Topps took advantage of the popularity of the TV series and
movies featuring the legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett
with the release of their 1956 Topps Davy Crockett cards.
The 80-card set with their vibrant color art, featured scenes
from the TV show and Davy Crockett's life.
Moments like Crockett's battles, encounters with Indians,
and his famous coonskin cap are captured. Set had (2) series.
Thge first 40 were "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier"
with the last (40) "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates."
Card backs offered descriptions of the images on front.
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1933-1934/1941 Skybirds (R137-Goudey)
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1961 Fleer PIRATES BOLD
1961 Fleer Pirates Bold Set had (66) colorful and illustrations
including the most famous of names: Captain Kidd & Blackbeard
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1961 Fleer PIRATES BOLD
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Are sports cards valuable ?
Like all collectibles, over time some sports cards go down in value,
others go up and some can even become very valuable.
Card values are based on many factors:
player popularity, scarcity, condition & collector interest.
A card can be scarce but without demand value may not be great.
Q: What are some ways to collect cards ?
* Complete sets by year & issue
* Cards of your favorite player
* Cards of your favorite team "TEAM SETS"
* Rookie cards
* Hall-of-Famer cards
* I even had a girlfriend that collected Don Mossi (checkout his ears),
players whose last name start with "Z", and the Brett brothers George &
Ken (she had a crush on George).
* "TYPE COLLECTING" (everyone should at least do a little of this !)
"Type Collecting"
is collecting at least one of each different "type" of issue.
On scarcer issues you can add a less expensive common
while on others you can select your favorite player or team.
