Sunday, February 9, 2020

Card Of The Week February 9

Sean did a post the other day about some round menko cards he had gotten recently of Sadaharu Oh from 1977 that were given away somehow with Pepsi.  Those weren't the only cards of Oh that Pepsi would give away that year.  They also put out a set of 8 large (6 inches by 8 1/4 inches) bromide cards.  Engel has these cards cataloged at "JBR 149: 1977 Sadaharu Oh Giant Sized Pepsi Bromides" and gave them a scarcity factor of "R2" so they're not quite as rare as the round menko Sean showed off.

I only have one of these cards:


The back of the card shows monochrome images of all eight cards in the set:


4 comments:

SumoMenkoMan said...

Oh cool, lots of soda-themed products back in the day in Japan. Cool bromides for sure.

Sean said...

Ha, you beat me to it! I just picked up a couple of unopened packs of those cards and am planning on doing a post on them in the coming week. They are beauties!

Fuji said...

This oversized card is awesome! What an beautiful display piece.

NPB Card Guy said...

@Sean - Unopened packs? That's so cool. There's nothing like opening up 40+ year old packs!