Complete "sleeve" of eight 1973-74 Shur-Fresh Bill Russell cards. Extxraordinary find a grouping of eight Bill Russell cards from this difficult regional bread issue. The equivalent of an "uncut sheet," these cards were distributed with loaves of bread, the cards attached directly to the plastic bread tabs that sealed the bags closed. The Bill Russell card is the key to the issue; he was the biggest name associated with the team and a lack of Bill Russell cards in the hobby makes his Shur-Fresh card desirable in any grade. This is of course a horse of a different color entirely: a sleeve of eight of the cards attached to one another by eight plastic bread tabs. One can see by examining the sleeve that the tabs were likely removed from one another by some sort of automated process that separated the tabs from one another, and then sealed the bread loaves. The result is eight Bill Russell cards, all uncirculated still fresh and white with only very minor wear from having been handled over the years, and light wear across the left edge that would bring the technical grade of the cards to the VG-EX level. Still a remarkable piece, a stunning collection of uncut Bill Russell cards from a difficult and desirable regional set.