1955 Golden Stamps Booklets of Dodgers, Giants and Braves With Stamps (99)

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Here is an impressive artifact from 70 years ago, the 1955 Golden Stamps Booklets of the Dodgers, Giants and Braves, complete with the 32 unperforated Stamps that come with each. The charming 8 ½-by-11-inch Golden Stamps magazines feature color covers and black-and-white inside pages, with biographies and statistics and some line art flanking the spot where the Stamps are to be affixed. The program provided for magazines to feature the Indians, Dodgers, Giants and Braves, with three of the four included in this lot. The 36-page magazine, published by Simon and Schuster, includes the two pages of unperforated stamps (16 on each) appearing at the front and back, with the magazines here in Excellent condition, nudged only by some tiny wrinkles and similarly tiny pencil notations of resale price. The stamps in each instance are essentially as issued and without any visible difficulties. The lineup of players for the Dodgers includes the likes of Hall of Famers Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Walt Alston and Tommy Lasorda, plus important stars Carl Erskine, Carl Furillo, Jim Gilliam, Sandy Amoros, Joe Black, Billy Loes, Russ Meyer, Don Hoak, and even the batboy, Charlie “The Brow” Di Giovanna, and a Stamp of Ebbets Field. For the Braves, the lineup includes Hall of Famers Henry Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn, plus Joe Adcock, Billy Bruton, Lew Burdette, Del Crandall, Jolly Cholly Grimm, Johnny Logan, Andy Pafko, Bobby Thomson and a Stamp of County Stadium. For the Giants, its Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Monte Irvin and Hoyt Wilhelm, plus the likes of Johnny Antonelli, Al Dark, Ruben Gomez, Marv Grissom, Don Liddle, Whitey Lockman, Sal Maglie, Don Mueller, Dusty Rhodes, Hank Thompson and a Stamp of the Polo Grounds.