Post Offered A Bonus In the Cereal Box

The Ernie Banks card given in the box is shown to buyers through a window.  As one might notice on the box, Post included two cards inside each box.  

Since Post shows the card as part of the display, should I try to get a box for each player in the set?

Here is the checklist for this set from 2001 - Ruth, Banks, Foxx, McCovey, F. Robinson, Killebrew, Schmidt, Jackson

Canadian Cereal Boxes?

I bought this box recently without even realizing that it was a bilingual box from Canada.  I do have both versions of these cards but I forgot to consider the cereal boxes.  

Did Kellogg's change the boxes in Canada in years when there was not a different version of the cards in Canada?  Did Canadian law require the package be bilingual?  

Does anyone have other boxes from Canada? 

1976 Kellogg's Unopened Pack - Don Gullett?

There is a listing on ebay for the 1976 Don Gullett in an unopened pack.  Did the first three Kellogg's cards get into cereal boxes?

UPDATE - they had 10 of them and they went fast. 

Post Baseball Cards

I've gotten a few Post baseball cards from the 1961 - 1963 sets.  I knew that there were some more recent Post cards.  I found out there are at least sets from 1990 - 1995, 2002 and the one above from 2001.  Are there others?

After a quick ebay search I learned that there are a variety of different boxes that contained these Post baseball cards.  Maybe I've got a new project that will be affordable and free from cracked, curled cards?

I know that I have one of these sets.  If I got to the National that will give me something to look for in the bargain bins.  

Another quick scan through ebay confirmed what I guessed - all of the sets are cheap.  The empty boxes will cost me more, but I think that they are more colorful than some of these card sets.  

Kellogg's Basketball Cards from the late 1990s

I don't remember anything about these cards.  I was surprised to see that a pack contained 11 cards.  This is my first pack of these. 

Does anyone know much about these cards?  I will open a pack when I get another one, but I like this pack the way it is with Stockton.

When Starting Lineups got lazy and started using cards that already existed it was quite a disappointment.  Most years they at least reprinted them with sequential numbers instead of using the number from the regular card set.  They also usually put the SLU logo on the front or back.

I see no logo on the front here.  I guess I'll need to check the back to see about the logo and card number.  How else would one know it was a Kellogg's card unless it was in this pack with the checklist?

I wasn't really collecting cards much from 1995 - 1999.  Things that caused it included the baseball strike, graduate school in another town and moving to Colorado.  I wish I'd have done this things from 1990 - 1995 so I'd have less of the junk cards in my house.

How to Be Sure A Card is a Proof Card?

I did a search on ebay and COMC to see what was listed for Kellogg's proof cards.  It seems that sellers assume that all blank-back cards must be proof cards.  I have no idea, but I am guessing that they are not.

Others mention that the card is a proof card but there is nothing obvious to prove that fact.  Does anyone have a better way to determine this?

I don't know much, but I've mentioned the Benanti Collection before because Beckett graded them and had them in some auctions about five years ago.  There are currently a handful of 1970 Kellogg's football cards from these auctions on ebay/COMC.  I'm still deciding if I want any of them.

BCG added the text "THE BENANTI COLLECTION" to the grading label.  Does anyone have Benanti Collection cards or uncut sheets from those auctions?

Why Didn't We Do That?

I collected the Kellogg's cards as a kid.  Hardly anyone saved the cereal box, which is why they are valuable today.

The Lou Brock from the 1978 box above looks great.  Why didn't we cut the cards off the boxes?  Some of them were even actual size.  Not only that, there were plenty of the game's biggest stars as well as my favorite players. 

When looking at them together, a big difference can be noticed.  On the left above is the picture that was used.  The clouds look normal until the 3-D coating is applied as shown by the finished product on the right.  That makes me want to get these cards.  I see the actual-sized ones around but I don't see the small ones. 

What is everyone seeing out there?  Does anyone have a checklist of all of the possible cards that were shown somewhere on a box?  I am going to work on that.

Do any cards differ other than the 3-D coating?  That's another reason to get a checklist going.  Any help would be appreciated.