Lot # 535: 1933-34 Diamond Matchbooks Collection (24)

Category: 1895-1948

Starting Bid: $75.00

Bids: 6 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed
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Item was in Auction "Summer, 2015 Premier Auction",
which ran from 7/21/2015 4:00 AM to
8/9/2015 8:42 AM



Collection of 24 different 1930s Diamond Matchbooks among the most undervalued "cards" in all of collecting. Since the 1930s saw a dearth of football cards with only one mainstream football issue released during the decade in many cases the only cardboard appearance for many key players of the era was on a Diamond Matchbook cover. Collection includes several matchbooks from the 1933 issue (Milo Lubratovitch Jim MacMurdo and William Pendergast) and the remainder from the 1934 issue including Cliff Battles Jack Beynon (red tan and green) Dale Burnett (tan and blue with strike torn off) Glenn Campbell John Canella Stuart Clancy Lone Star Dietz Tiny Feather Ray Flaherty (tan and green) Leonard Grant (strike torn off) Melvin Hein (strike torn off) Cecil Irvin Jack Johnson Russell Lay Jim Leonard John McKnight Jim Mooney Bill Morgan (strike torn off) Harry Newman John Oehler Bill Owen Steve Owen (strike torn off) Henry Reese (red and red with strike torn off) Ken Strong (strike torn off). 24 matchbooks total.