Lot # 402: 1957 Swift Meats Complete Set w/Mailer and Game Board

Category: 1949-Present

Starting Bid: $500.00

Bids: 9 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Fall, 2017 Ringside and Premier Auction",
which ran from 11/9/2017 4:44 AM to
11/26/2017 10:12 AM



Made available to customers of Swift Meats by mail in 1957 this is one of the most interesting of all the regional meat issues that became popular in the 1950s. Each of the set's 18 cards were made to be three-dimensional game pieces full-color die-cut body parts that were intended to be punched out and assembled and subsequently used on the enclosed game board to play a simulated baseball game. Due to their intended use high-grade examples are difficult to find today and complete sets such as this are fairly rare. Included here is the complete 18-card set on three separate cards along with the fold-out game board housed in the original 9x12 mailing envelope. In outstanding condition with some minor wrinkling here and there the lighter-weight game board and envelope showing more wear than the cards.

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