According to PSACard.com, the 1953-54 Briggs Meats baseball set is a 40-card set featuring 28 players from the Washington Senators and 12 more players from the New York teams (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees). Issued as two-card panels measuring approximately 4-1/8” by 5-1/2”, each pair was cut from a hot dog package from the Washington, D.C. area and featured a bold red border. Once the 2-1/4” by 3-1/2” cards were cut into individual items, they showed no border. A full-color posed player photograph with a white strip below the image had the player’s facsimile signature as well as his printed name. The Senators cards, however, showed the facsimile autograph and some biographical information. These blank-backed cards carried the same photographs of the New York players as the 1954 Dan-Dee Potato Chips and 1953-55 Stahl-Meyer Franks.

Thomas Umphlett is the subject of this example, which is in unbelievable condition considering it came out of a hot dog package 70 years ago. While the edges and corners aren't perfect, and while staining and soiling is present, the fact that the image is as bright, bold, and clear as it is, and that all of the text at the bottom of the card is present and legible is nothing short of a miracle. The (MK) qualifier can be explained by some writing on the reverse which does not affect the front, appearing to read "DAY" or "DA4" in red. Although the grade seems low and it has a qualifier, this is the only example of Thomas Umphlett's card to have ever received a numerical grade from PSA. The scarcity of this issue far outweighs any perceived cosmetic flaws on this example.

PSA has only ever graded 6 total examples of this hand cut 1953-54 Briggs Meats card, with NONE receiving a higher grade than the Poor 1 (MK) offered here of Thomas Umphlett.