Little help identifying and valuing these cards?

[DougLaurieSports]

I will running this thread for a bit, I think, as we have just come into some really odd and old stuff! Haven't been able to find sales examples for any of this, and some don't list in Beckett or anywhere else I can find.

Thanks in advance for your help!





The three similar cards are Owen Sound Mercury players. The cards have to be from 1953-54 to 1955-56 seasons, as those are the only three years all three played together.

The Kennedy is a Beehive lid. It's just paper, and there were apparently only on the bottom of the one-pound cans of Beehive Corn Syrup for a short time.

 

[re-ac-tor]

Here is a thread on another site that helps a bit:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/3817...'s+"Owen+Sound+Mercury's"+card+help

 

[webottew]

PM sent! I am interested in the Mercurys cards
I can't offer much more info other than the Network54 link. That's the only other place I have seen them (and they look like the same cards that were originally posted in that thread).

The Burlington would by far be the most valuable, if it wasn't in the worst shape. For those that don't know Tommy Burlington, be sure to google him. He was described as the best hockey player to never play in the NHL. Highly praised by NHLers Punch Imlach, Harry Lumley and Rocket Richard. Burlington posted incredible stats in every league that he played, but being blind in one eye kept him out of the big leagues.

 

[Chillychow]

As an aside - there was a Glen Skov that played for the Blackhawks in the late '50's...