80's & 90's Mother's Cookies Cards Are BEAUTIFUL! (Scans)

[Loyalty32]

How did I miss these? Actually, I guess I know how I missed them. 99.9% of my collecting life, I was a Player Collector (Andre Dawson). "The Hawk" never had a Mother's Cookies Card. So I never picked up any.

Sure, I would see them listed here or there. I just never realized how nice they were until I picked up some of them in a collection I recently bought. Which can be seen by *CLICKING HERE* by the way!

I was shocked to see the quality of the cards. The photography is nice, the high gloss finish and die cut corners give the cards a modern look even by todays standards in my opinion. (Maybe I'm just stuck in the 80's/90's?)

If you have any you would like to share, post them up! Here are some that were in the collection I bought...

*Ryan, Mays & Gwynn are from 1984!

*Uncut Sheets*

 

[JamesNevans]

I ran an article a few years ago about the demise of Mother's Cookies (since picked up as a brand by another) and remember wanting to pull the card in the package of glazed oatmeal raisen or glazed pink or white with sprinkles Circus Animals that were my wife's favorites. Mother's started in Oakland California and had some early Pacific Coast League sets (1950s), later in the 1970's and on they had Giants & A's often having them as game premiums as well as their cookie packages. I have a couple of Giants sets I'm trying to build out from the 1980's that are listed on my Close To Finished Sets page of my site and have a few duplicates for both A's and Giants from the era.

 

[Loyalty32]

JamesNevans - Thanks for the info! I know the scans I posted don't do the cards justice. The glossy finish just doesn't come through in the pictures. Did the 50's and 70's cards have the gloss finish as well?

Thanks
Craig

 

[brewerfan34]

I always liked picking these up back in the day. The Griffey card is the best. Thanks for sharing!

Frank

 

[JamesNevans]

JamesNevans - Thanks for the info! I know the scans I posted don't do the cards justice. The glossy finish just doesn't come through in the pictures. Did the 50's and 70's cards have the gloss finish as well?

Thanks
Craig

Here's the 1953 card, pretty similar to the late 1970s and 1980s cards as I did have a few myself I have since sold.

 

[just-for-cards]

I have quite a lot of these myself. I focused on the Rangers and completed the sets but still have a lot more tucked away including some strips.
I'm still trying to get the weight off from eating all those cookies. But the pictures on the cards were very nice and well worth it.

 

[89Giants]

As a kid I always looked forward to the mother's cookies team set giveaway every year for the SF Giants. My parents would always take me to that game at candlestick. It was cool because you got 20 cards and 8 extras of one guy you had to trade with other fans to get your set. The cards look great signed. I wish they still made them, I have all of the Giants sets. When I had terry kennedy sign one last year he said that day was his kids favorite because they got free mothers cookies.
I also have that Griffey uncut sheet which I tried to have griffey SR sign this year but he said "no, I hate those cookie monster cards".

 

[JamesNevans]

As a kid I always looked forward to the mother's cookies team set giveaway every year for the SF Giants. My parents would always take me to that game at candlestick. It was cool because you got 20 cards and 8 extras of one guy you had to trade with other fans to get your set. The cards look great signed. I wish they still made them, I have all of the Giants sets. When I had terry kennedy sign one last year he said that day was his kids favorite because they got free mothers cookies.
I also have that Griffey uncut sheet which I tried to have griffey SR sign this year but he said "no, I hate those cookie monster cards".

I went one year where they had 20 cards and a trade card good for 8 more that you had to redeam. There was no way you'd get the right 8 cards so it encouraged trading.

 

[CW13]

i love those, too and have all sorts of late 80s sets from each year. i met Wayne Bebb at a card show and he gave us a ton of sets and also a bunch of posters..i still have those posters of Canseco/mcgwire Clark/Williams/ Nolan/ Scioscia and i forget who with...anyway i even still have some of those binders/books they gave away that you put the cards in. i always thought it was strange they had the autograph place on the back of the card and i used to have to tell some players, please sign the front...but i love those cards..i have a bunch of uncut sheets of nolan too..

 

[Loyalty32]

Great info folks!

Thanks
Craig

 

[Loyalty32]

Here's the 1953 card, pretty similar to the late 1970s and 1980s cards as I did have a few myself I have since sold.

James - Was that one you sold? Nice looking card!

Thanks
Craig

 

[JamesNevans]

James - Was that one you sold? Nice looking card!

Thanks
Craig

Oh no, mine were rougher condition and I sold them out of my $5 boxes, except for one about two years ago it must be about 7 years since I did a show that I possibly sold them through.

 

[Loyalty32]

It sold for $109 and some change! Not bad!

Thanks
Craig

Here's the 1953 card, pretty similar to the late 1970s and 1980s cards as I did have a few myself I have since sold.

 

[DaClyde]

I want to say Barry Colla did the photography for these cards, which helps explain why they always looked so good.