Bought myself a single binder page on eBay with some nice defacements. I got them to come down by about 1/3 off the asking price, which is probably still more than they should be worth. I'd really have preferred to trade for them, but eBay doesn't exactly have a way to do that.
You could be forgiven for thinking the Jim Brewer and Billy Martin mustaches were on their own lips, expertly applied as they were, but in the case of the Martin they added a few stands of hair coming out of his cap on the left side. It's very light but makes me laugh for some reason. Someone was just downright mad at Donn to scribble his neck so violently. What game did he blow back in 1962?
George Culver may have been hedging his bets for an offseason modeling career by trying out for a Tareyton Cigarette ad here.
If those smokers were so reluctant to switch you think they would have gotten good at ducking.
The main reason I bought the bunch was these 3.
Bob Bailey has some sort of 3 Musketeers' like mustache and a serpent tongue but is also the first defaced card I have found that seems to have a fart. The Sox rookie card has what I can only assume are an attempt at gaudy hanging ladies' earrings that are swinging away, which I have seen on a few defaced cards. Nowadays you wouldn't be caught on your big debut card without some big rocks on your ears. Who'da thunk that in '72.
And the Stan Williams is one of my fave defacements in the whole collection. I love how expertly drawn it was and if you turn it in the light a bit it appears that someone just drew a Mr Magoo face with a mustache on it. Very Clever.
Billy Martin actually had a mustache later in his managerial career, but didn't quite look like that. The artist here made him look kind of like David Niven.
ReplyDeleteThese are so fun to see. Everytime I'm out I look for cards for your now.
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