I'm built upside-down... from Donruss Idiot Cards (W500)
I'm built upside-down... from Donruss Idiot Cards (W500). 66 cards in set. Color. First card products distributed by Donruss Trading Cards. Packaged in waxed paper "wax packs" that included cards and a flat stick of gum. Thin white border. At lower left, red arrow with OVER. Joke "setups" on front -- with punch lines on card backs. Verso includes "collect all 66/ IDIOT CARDS (in red box at bottom) 15 (in white circle). Printed sideways at edge of verso: © B. L. W. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Artwork Details
- Title: I'm built upside-down... from Donruss Idiot Cards (W500)
- Publisher: Donruss (American, established 1954)
- Date: 1961
- Medium: Commercial color photolithograph
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in. (9 × 6.3 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
- Object Number: Burdick 537, W500.1002
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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