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1947 KELLOGG’S ALL-WHEAT

This third and final set of Kellogg’s All-Wheat cards followed the same design as the previous two sets. There is likely one more card in the set that would make each group of football cards number at least five of the SPORT-TIPS subsets. In 1947 still more additional sport tips were made available on the backs of the cereal boxes, following

some of the same designs used earlier in the newspaper series, but it is not known if this practice was followed in the first or second year of the set issues.Prices for cards in intact sheets are estimates as per the 1st set.

3rd Set Trading Card - Cereal Premium

Size 1 3/4” X 2 1/2”Front Colour game mechanics illustration, card number, titleBack Black text on cardstock, product name, series title, card title, card

number, subset title, bilingual writeup, sloganMark none

Set Availability x - RareComplete Set # 4? / 150 Intact Sheet Format # 4? / ?

VG EX NRMT Set Price $33.00 $56.00 $84.00Common Price $12.00 $20.00 $30.00Intact Sheet Set Price $80.00 $160.00 $320.00 yIntact Sheet Common Price $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 y

A 15 card subset of “Sports Histories” appeared in set three and though unconfirmed, it would seem likely that a football card would exist for this subset.

Intact Sheet Format # Name VG EX NRMT NRMT

¨ 21 STRIDE DRILL 12.00 20.00 30.00 ¨ 100.00¨ 22 PASSING DRILL 12.00 20.00 30.00 ¨ 100.00¨ 23 BLOCK CONTEST 12.00 20.00 30.00 ¨ 100.00¨ 24 SPINNER PLAY 12.00 20.00 30.00 ¨ 100.00

# Associated Items VG EX NRMT

¨ Advertisement - Newsprint Magazine 15.00 30.00 60.00 n (Size ?)

Other items may exist & information on associated item sizes is incomplete. Any information on missing items or help with missing information would be appreciated.

SPORT-TIPS Printed Illustration - Cereal Cutout

Size ?Front Black text on cardstock, card number, card title, three panel game

mechanics illustration and related tipBack ?Mark none

Set Availability z - Virtually ImpossibleComplete Set # 1? / ? Intact Box Back Format # 1? / ?

VG EX NRMT Set Price $10.00 $20.00 $40.00Intact Box Back Set Price $45.00 $90.00 $175.00

Intact Box Back Format # Name VG EX NRMT NRMT ¨ 17 RUGBY.....TACKLING 10.00 20.00 40.00 ¨ 175.00 TACKLE APPROACH IDEAL TARGET DRIVE HARD

Other items may exist & information on this set is incomplete. Any information on missing items or help with missing information would be appreciated.

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1956 NABISCO SHREDDED WHEATThese cards were available in boxes of Nabisco Shredded Wheat

cereal in 1956, It is believed there were two to a box but definitive proof of that is unavailable. At 105 cards this is definitely one of the most challenging of all the classic CFL sets to put together. It seems unlikely that any one family would have purchased the amount of cereal necessary to complete this set over the life of the promotion and complete sets would have been extremely rare, even in 1956.Each card contained a tab on the lower portion that the collector

could cut off and remit once they had completed any of the team subsets in order to receive some sort of prize. Even completing a team set would have been very difficult and this might account for the fact that the vast majority of these cards that are available today have the tabs attached, and only rarely do you see a copy without the tab. Cards without the tab should be considered no better that VG no matter what the condition of the remainder of the card is.Seven of the nine CFL teams (Montreal and B.C. excluded) are

featured on fifteen card subsets each assigned a different letter (from A to G) in the card’s numbering system. The cards images are black and white head shots superimposed over a two colour background keyed to the team’s jersey colours. Player selection for the set is excellent with the majority of the cards being rookie cards and many star and Hall of Fame players included. There are some curiosities in the player selection as every team except Hamilton includes a

coach card, with Hall of Famers Frank “Pop” Ivy and Frank Clair being among the coaching standouts. Coach Frank Filchock of the Roughriders is not flagged as a quarterback for this set as his playing days with the club were over by this time.While the Blue Ribbon Tea set predates this set by two years, the

Nabisco set is a grade rarer than the Blue Ribbons and as such the card values are roughly equivalent for the same grade of player in each set. The Nabisco set is collectively the most expensive of all CFL sets, having 25 more cards than the Blue Ribbon set, even though the cards are no where near as attractive as the Blue Ribbon full body colourized card photographs.It is unknown whether or not the cereal boxes featured promotional

information about the cards contained inside, but it would seem reasonable that this was the case. Presumably details regarding what sorts of prizes were available for submitting a complete team set of tabs would have been printed on the boxes. The promotion was advertised in Saturday morning comic sections of various papers and in both French and English language versions. The cards were also advertised in newspapers and game programs of the era.

Trading Card - Cereal Premium

Size 2 1/2” X 3 1/2”Front B&W posed head photo on two colour background, card number,

nameBack Black text on cardstock, name, team, bilingual writeup, contest

redemption instructionsMark none

Set Availability y - Extremely RareComplete Set # 105

VG EX NRMT Set Price $3,330.00 $6,350.00 $12,100.00Common Price $30.00 $50.00 $90.00

# Name VG EX NRMT ¨ 1A Peter Muir CAL 30.00 50.00 90.00¨ 2A Harry Langford CAL [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 3A Tony Pajaczkowski CAL [RC] 55.50 92.50 166.50¨ 4A Bob Morgan CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 5A Baz Nagle CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 6A Alex Macklin CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 7A Bob Geary CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 8A Don Klosterman CAL [RC] [QB] 45.00 75.00 135.00¨ 9A Bill McKenna CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 10A Bill Stevenson CAL [RC] [QB] 45.00 75.00 135.00¨ 11A Ray Baillie CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 12A Burdette Hess CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 13A Lynn Bottoms CAL [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 14A Gordon Brown CAL [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 15A Jack Hennemier (Coach) CAL [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 1B Frank Anderson EDM 36.00 60.00 108.00¨ 2B Don Barry EDM [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 3B John Bright EDM 105.00 175.00 315.00

# Name VG EX NRMT ¨ 4B Kurt Burris EDM [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 5B Bob Dean EDM 30.00 50.00 90.00¨ 6B Don Getty EDM [RC] [QB] 57.00 95.00 171.00¨ 7B Norm Kwong EDM [RC] 90.00 150.00 270.00¨ 8B Earl Lindley EDM [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 9B Art Walker EDM [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 10B Rollie Miles EDM [RC] 75.00 125.00 225.00¨ 11B Frank Morris EDM 53.75 89.75 161.25¨ 12B Jack Parker EDM [QB] 150.00 250.00 450.00¨ 13B Ted Tully EDM [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 14B Frank (Pop) Ivy (Coach) EDM [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 15B Bill Rowekamp EDM [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 1C Al Sherman (Coach) WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 2C Larry Cabrelli WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50 (Assistant Coach)¨ 3C Ron Kelly WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 4C Ed Kotowich WPG [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 5C Buddy Leake WPG [RC] [QB] 51.00 85.00 153.00

# Name VG EX NRMT ¨ 6C Chuck Lumsden WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 7C Bill Smitiuk WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 8C R. P. Tinsley WPG 53.75 89.75 161.25¨ 9C Ron Vaccher WPG 30.00 50.00 90.00¨ 10C Herman Day WPG [RC] [QB] 51.00 85.00 153.00¨ 11C Buddy Alliston WPG [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 12C Bob Haas WPG [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50¨ 13C Steve Patrick WPG 42.00 70.00 126.00 ¨ 14C Keith Pierce »Pearce WPG 36.00 60.00 108.00¨ 15C Lorne Benson WPG 36.00 60.00 108.00¨ 1D George Arnett HAM 30.00 50.00 90.00¨ 2D Eddie Bevan HAM 42.00 70.00 126.00¨ 3D Art Darch HAM [RC] 37.50 62.50 112.50 ¨ 4D John Fedosoff HAM [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50¨ 5D Cam Fraser HAM 36.00 60.00 108.00¨ 6D Ron Howell HAM [RC] 49.50 82.50 148.50¨ 7D Alex Muzyka HAM 30.00 50.00 90.00¨ 8D Chet Miksza HAM [RC] 43.50 72.50 130.50

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# Name VG EX NRMT

¨ Intact Box Back Panel 25 58.50 118.00 235.00 (Crispy Critters 10 oz., black border) P Box Back Panel Header Card V 6 George Dixon MON 120 Pete Manning CAL [RC] 43 Aubrey Linne TOR [RC] 152 Tom Hinton BC 23 Doug Daigneault OTT 71 Tommy Grant HAM 76 Herb Gray WPG

# Name VG EX NRMT

¨ Intact Box Back Panel 26 49.00 98.00 208.00 (Crispy Critters 10 oz., black border) P Box Back Panel Header Card V 50 Dick Shatto TOR 65 Ron Ray HAM 134 Bob Walden EDM 22 Kaye Vaughan OTT 96 Bob Ptacek SSK [QB] 1 Larry Hickman MON 123 Pat Holmes CAL [RC]

# Name VG EX NRMT

¨ Intact Box Back Panel 27 59.50 115.50 230.00 (Crispy Critters 10 oz., black border) P Box Back Panel Header Card V 80 Leo Lewis WPG 46 Doug McNichol TOR V 60 Garney Henley HAM 139 Roger Nelson EDM 115 Roy Jokanovich CAL [RC] 106 Larry Dumelie SSK [RC] 144 Nub Beamer BC

Album Point of Sale Display Box - Front

# Associated Items VG EX NRMT

¨ Album 15.00 25.00 50.00 m (Size 12 1/2” X 11”, English)¨ Album 10.00 20.00 40.00 m (Size 12 1/2” X 11”, French)¨ Factory Cut Card Order Form 2.00 5.00 10.00 m (Size 6 1/16” X 5 11/16”, Brown/Green)¨ Factory Cut Card Order Form 2.00 5.00 10.00 m (Size 6 1/16” X 5 11/16”, Orange/Peach)¨ Cereal Box Side Panel Checklist 20.00 40.00 80.00 n (Size ?)¨ Cereal Box Side Panel Order Form 15.00 30.00 60.00 n (Size ?)¨ Album Logo Sheet, English 5.00 10.00 20.00 m (Size 8 1/2” X 3 1/4”, English)¨ Album Logo Sheet, French 5.00 10.00 20.00 m (Size 8 1/2” X 3 1/4”, English)¨ Album Point of Sale Display Box 20.00 40.00 75.00 n (Size ?)

Information on associated item sizes is incomplete. Any help with missing information would be appreciated.The author would appreciate help in locating high(er) quality images for this set (front).

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CFL Football Stars (Novelties & Souvenirs)Bottle Cap - Grocery Premium

Size 1” diameterFront B&W player head photo, team, player name, “Drink Coke” or “Buvez Coke” or “Taste Sprite” or “Buvez Sprite”,

“Trade Mark Reg” or “Marque Deposée”Back Corked back of bottle capMark Bottled under authority of Coca-Cola Ltd., Toronto Ont. or Embouteillé Sous Lautorité De Coca-Cola Ltée, Toronto Ont. and “cCs” or “ccc” and Benzoate of Soda on Sprite caps only

Set Availability see chartComplete Coke English Set # 230 Coke French Variant # 230 Coke Bronze Variant # 9? Sprite English Dark Variant # 230 Sprite English Light Variant # 230Sprite French Dark Variant # 230 Sprite French Light Variant # 230

VG EX NRMTCoke English Set Price $210.00 $560.00 $1200.00Coke French Set Price $310.00 $850.00 $1800.00Coke Bronze Variants Price $17.00 $45.00 $100.00Sprite English Set Price $675.00 $1,800.00 $3,860.00Sprite French Set Price $1,125.00 $3,020.00 $6,445.00Coke English Common Price $1.00 $2.50 $5.00Coke French Common Price $1.50 $3.75 $7.50Coke Bronze Commons Price $3.00 $7.50 $15.00Sprite English Common Price $3.00 $7.50 $15.00Sprite French Common Price $5.00 $12.50 $25.00

No Image Available(Sprite French Light Green)

COKE ENGLISH COKE FRENCH COKE BRONZE SPRITE ENGLISH SPRITE FRENCH Dark Green Light Green Dark Green Light Green Name VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT NRMT VG EX NRMT NRMT

N. Beaumont BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 T. Brown BC ¨ 2.00 5.00 10.00 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 ¨ 10.00 25.00 50.00 ¨ 50.00 M. Burton BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 M. Cacic BC ¨ 1.50 3.50 7.00 ¨ 2.00 5.25 10.50 ¨ 4.25 10.50 21.00 ¨ 21.00 ¨ 7.00 17.50 35.00 ¨ 35.00 P. Claridge BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 S. Cotter BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 N. Fieldgate BC ¨ 2.00 5.00 10.00 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 ¨ 10.00 25.00 50.00 ¨ 50.00 G. Findlay BC ¨ 1.50 3.50 7.00 ¨ 2.00 5.25 10.50 ¨ 4.25 10.50 21.00 ¨ 21.00 ¨ 7.00 17.50 35.00 ¨ 35.00 W. Fleming BC ¨ 2.00 5.00 10.00 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 ¨ 10.00 25.00 50.00 ¨ 50.00 D. Fouts BC ¨ 1.50 3.50 7.00 ¨ 2.00 5.25 10.50 ¨ 4.25 10.50 21.00 ¨ 21.00 ¨ 7.00 17.50 35.00 ¨ 35.00 T. Hinton BC ¨ 2.00 5.00 10.00 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 ¨ 10.00 25.00 50.00 ¨ 50.00 L. Homer BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 J. Kapp BC [QB] ¨ 4.00 10.00 20.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 12.00 30.00 60.00 ¨ 60.00 ¨ 20.00 50.00 100.00 ¨ 100.00 G. Kasapis BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 P. Kempf BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 B. Lasseter BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 M. Martin BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 R. Morris BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 B. Munsey BC ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 P. Seale BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 S. Shafer BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 K. Sugarman BC ¨ 1.50 3.50 7.00 ¨ 2.00 5.25 10.50 ¨ 4.25 10.50 21.00 ¨ 21.00 ¨ 7.00 17.50 35.00 ¨ 35.00 B. Swift BC ¨ 1.50 3.50 7.00 ¨ 2.00 5.25 10.50 ¨ 4.25 10.50 21.00 ¨ 21.00 ¨ 7.00 17.50 35.00 ¨ 35.00 J. Williams BC ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00

COKE ENGLISH COKE FRENCH COKE BRONZE SPRITE ENGLISH SPRITE FRENCH Dark Green Light Green Dark Green Light Green Name VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT VG EX NRMT NRMT VG EX NRMT NRMT

R. Allbright CAL ¨ 1.25 3.00 6.00 ¨ 1.75 4.50 9.00 ¨ 3.50 9.00 18.00 ¨ 18.00 ¨ 6.00 15.00 30.00 ¨ 30.00 L. Bain CAL ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00 F. Budd CAL ¨ 1.00 2.50 5.00 ¨ 1.50 3.75 7.50 ¨ 3.00 7.50 15.00 ¨ 15.00 ¨ 5.00 12.50 25.00 ¨ 25.00

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Information on associated item sizes is incomplete. Any help with missing information would be appreciated.

Sticker - Trading Card Insert

Size 2 1/2” X 3 1/2”Front Colour posed photo, sticker number, player name, team, three stickers per insertBack BlankMark ©O.P.C.Printed in Canada

Set Availability w - ScarceComplete Set # 24

VG EX NRMT Set Price $80.00 $165.00 $285.00 Common Price $2.50 $5.00 $8.00

OPC’s final insert set was an innovative sticker issue containing three separate player images that could be individually peeled and stuck. Naturally many of the stickers were destroyed through use and consequently complete items in prime condition are difficult to acquire today. Compounding the difficulty is the high percentage of stickers that were poorly centered, miscut, not printed straight with respect to the card edge or had blurred registration of the photo-graphic image.The stickers are comprised of the same players that OPC featured in

its’ regular issue with the exception of Hamilton quarterback Chuck Ealey who appears only in the insert set as sticker number 12. Most

of the sticker photographs are different images than those used on the cards but appear to have been taken during the same photo sessions.Evaluation of existing complete sheets of stickers shows that not all

stickers were produced in equal numbers (assuming only one sheet design was used). The first six sticker panels (sticker numbers 1 through 18) occur on the sheet three times each and are listed as short prints. The next nine panels (numbers 19 through 45) occur on the sheet four times each, and the last nine panels (numbers 46 through 72) occur on the sheet five times each and are listed as extra prints. The designations apply to the whole sticker panel where indicated.

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