Reds HoF - Oldies But Goodies

Recent pickups of older cards for my Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame card collection.

1961 Fleer card #101. Fleer 61's are one of my favorite, and largely affordable, old time card sets.

1936 National Chicle Red Lucas Cincinnati Reds (3" x 5" on thin stock), NNO, blank back. Note: The ebay description included "(KCR)" - does anyone know what that means?

1939 Play Ball Billy Myers, card #38. Note: The ebay description says "Upper & Lower Case" - does anyone know what that means? FYI, the back has a combination of upper and lower case text.

1973 TCMA 1940 Cincinnati Reds W711-2 Billy Werber Reprint, NNO. Autographed, but can't read the date.

1991 1922 American Caramel (E120) Reprint, NNO.

1991 1922 American Caramel (E120) Bubbles Hargrave Reprint, NNO. Unlike the Donohue scan, scanner didn't copy the text "Gene (Bubbles) Hargrave, Catcher, Cincinnati Nationals."

1991 1922 American Caramel (E120) Dolf Luque Reprint, NNO. Unlike the Donohue scan, scanner didn't copy the text "Adolfo Luque, Pitcher, Cincinnati Nationals."

1978 TCMA Roy McMillan, card #154.

1978 TCMA Bob Purkey, card #260.

1970 Topps, card #225.

1967 Topps, card #424.

I learned about the following Stuart Bakery Pete Rose card from Mike at Not Another Baseball Card Blog here.

1984 Stuart Pete Rose, card # 17 of 40 (more scanner cut-off corruption - Grrr!).

Thanks for visiting, and stay well!

CinciCuse Bill

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