More on the 1972 Sunoco Stamps
December 15th, 2009 | Published in My Collection, New in the Gallery, Oddball | 3 Comments
As I wrote in an earlier post, it will take me several steps to add the 1972 Sunoco Stamps to the Vintage Football Card Gallery. Last night I skipped ahead and finished step #4: Add player information (college, etc.) to player database. Now when you do a search by college, the Sunoco Stamps are included in the search. (To search by college, see the Search by College page or the Advanced Search page.)
Now everything’s done except the scanning. I finished the Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Colts, so I have just 24 teams to go. Whew.
In a comment on my last article about the stamps, Rob Lewis, the eBay seller who sold me the set, offered to send a copy of the order form for the update stamps to anyone who sends him an SASE. He also added some remarks about the update set. To see his comment, go to the article and scroll toward the bottom. Rob said the stamp album–which I still haven’t opened–contains 144 stamps, too. So I guess those 144 would be double-printed and a little easier to find? When I finish scanning–sometime next year–maybe I’ll summarize the different ways you could obtain the stamps, show which ones were replaced by updates, etc.
December 17th, 2009 at 9:27 PM (#)
The stamps in the albums are considered double prints, although they don’t have a big impact on the hobby. Most, if not all, of the stamps that were removed from the albums were long ago pasted into the albums and would no longer be in circulation.
December 18th, 2009 at 5:04 AM (#)
Good point. That’s exactly what I would have done as a kid: sat down for a couple of hours and stuck all the stamps in.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:30 AM (#)
[…] As I reported earlier, a few weeks ago I bought a set of 1972 Sunoco Stamps, and now I’m scanning them for the Vintage Football Card Gallery. Yesterday I did the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns. As I’ve said, overall, I’m not fond of the images used in the set. The stamps are small, and because the images are mostly action shots, you can’t see much of the players. […]