{"id":6986,"date":"2021-03-24T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:49:59","slug":"a-trio-of-1950s-bowman-football-card-display-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/a-trio-of-1950s-bowman-football-card-display-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trio of 1950s Bowman Football Card Display Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some great artifacts from the very old school days of card collecting. We have here three Bowman football card display boxes. They are from 1950, 1952, and an unspecified year (likely 1951) in the same period.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6989\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_29-1950-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Box....-Football-Cards-_-Lot-44122-_-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6989 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_29-1950-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Box....-Football-Cards-_-Lot-44122-_-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_29-1950-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Box....-Football-Cards-_-Lot-44122-_-.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_29-1950-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Box....-Football-Cards-_-Lot-44122-_--247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6988\" style=\"width: 794px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6988 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_46-1952-Bowman-Football-5-Cent-Empty-Display-Wax-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44123-_-H-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_58-Vintage-Bowman-Football-Empty-5-Cent-Display-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44118-_-He.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_58-Vintage-Bowman-Football-Empty-5-Cent-Display-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44118-_-He.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_58-Vintage-Bowman-Football-Empty-5-Cent-Display-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44118-_-He.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-24-13_41_58-Vintage-Bowman-Football-Empty-5-Cent-Display-Box.-...-Football-_-Lot-44118-_-He-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit of history for you: The original Bowman Gum company began in 1927 and lasted until they were acquired by rival Topps in 1956. In 1989, Topps revived the brand for select lines of its sports trading cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some great artifacts from the very old school days of card collecting. We have here three Bowman football card display boxes. They are from 1950, 1952, and an unspecified year (likely 1951) in the same period. A bit of history for you: The original Bowman Gum company began in 1927 and lasted until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[27,692,690,76,691],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-ephemera","tag-1950s","tag-bowman","tag-football-cards","tag-topps","tag-trading-cards","wpcat-135-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6991,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/6991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}