Friend o' the Archive and guitarslinger par excellance Mark Hellmann has some funny Funny Valentines, namely of the Giant Size variety:
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The middle picture shows a lighter red back than the rightmost example and as it turns out it was of a 1961 vintage, while the redder version is a 1966 reissue.
Adam R. Tucker and Mark T. Simon's Non Sport Archive Identification Reference, a killer visual guide to about 2000 vintage non sports packs:
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shows two similar, yet distinct packs were used to market the set five years apart.
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The only real difference is the kid on the 1961 pack has red hair and the '66 shows a blond. The '61 pack is near the spine of the book, sorry for that. There is some other evidence of the 1966 reissue as well here, just scroll down a little and you will see a production code for it. So a set long thought to be from 1961 is also from the future as well!
1 comment:
The other differences on the wrappers are "Funny" is centered on the '66 wrapper and the price is smaller
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