Julie over at A Cracked Bat is no longer super active on twitter but she’s still blogging sporadically. I enjoy her blog, especially her themed collections, and contributed a few customs to the cause. This also mean that I felt eligible to partake in her Pick Pockets page where she will list various cards available to fellow traders.
After some USPS hang-ups, earlier this week I got a small envelope containing a handful of cards I picked late last year.
Three cards from before I was old enough to be collecting cards. I’ll never turn down the chance at a nice Kellogg’s card and since my gut instinct is to think of Dave Parker as a Red, it’s always nice to build up the number of Pirates cards I have of him.
The two Ralston Purina cards hit me in my feels. I had a handful of these, and the near-identical Cereal Series cards, when I was a kid and they’re partly responsible for my love of oddball food issues. The white card stock was such a departure from the regular Topps cards of that era and the design itself was unlike anything else.
I’m not building either set but I have no problems adding to the ones I have. Maybe I’ll embark on a Cereal/Purina frankenset quest and try and split things 50/50 between the two.
The other two cards were a pair of oddballs from my youth. I used to buy Bazooka and definitely collected the cards in the early 1990s but the 1988 and 1989 sets escaped my notice. The gum wrapper logo/design is a lot of fun and I just love adding stuff like this to the oddball binder.
The 1992 Score Procter & Gamble is one I never saw as a kid. It’s a wild design—in way reminiscent of the inserts from the 1980s. Looking up the set details now, it looks like you had to send in three proof of purchases and I don’t think my family purchased any Procter & Gamble products. I love that I can still come across card sets from my youth which I never encountered before.
Very cool stuff and I’m glad Julie’s pockets weren’t picked through by the time I got to them.
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Julie’s pockets are always fun to pick!
I’m casually chasing Kellogg’s and that 1984 Ralston Purina set, so if you hadn’t grabbed those three cards I would have. I don’t think I had any of those Ralston Purina cards in the 1980s, but I got a bunch of them through repacks a few years ago and fell for the set a little bit. I’ve got a little over half of the combined set and I don’t distinguish between whether they’re Ralston Purina or Cereal series. Whatever comes my way first goes into my set.
I never saw the Procter & Gamble set when I was young either, in fact I only learned of it’s existence through reading the card blogs. It’s a nice set though, very different for the time.