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Specs
Year: 1962
Title: York Iron-On Transfers
Size: 2 1/4″ x 4 1/4″, I’ve also read 2 3/16” x 4 5/16”
Number in Set: 36, 37 with the short print
Overview
The 1962 York Iron-On Transfers are super tough to find; PSA has only graded 95 of them. There’s also some debate about when they came out, but based on the players selected, the hobby has concluded that they’re likely a 1962-63 release.
York put the transfers under the lids of their peanut butter and on bags of peanuts; therefore, they were folded in the middle for packaging.
York also distributed blank pennants for 25 cents that fans could iron the transfers on. I’m not exactly sure what the pennants York distributed looked like; some of these photos may be homemade versions.
They also made a few iron-on team logos available through a mail-in offer (Toronto, Montreal, or Detroit).
Each transfer is a simple hand-drawn head-and-shoulders player portrait with a facsimile autograph along the bottom. Beneath the portion meant to be transferred are directions and the card’s number.
There’s also one short print since card number 30 was used for both Andre Pronovost and the much rarer Vic Stasiuk.
Example
Key Cards
The set’s key card belongs to Gordie Howe.
Checklist
1 Johnny Bower
2 Jacques Plante
3 Tim Horton
4 Jean-Guy Talbot
5 Carl Brewer
6 J.C. Tremblay
7 Dick Duff
8 Jean Beliveau
9 Dave Keon
10 Henri Richard
11 Frank Mahovlich
12 Boom Boom Geoffrion
13 Kent Douglas
14 Claude Provost
15 Bob Pulford
16 Ralph Backstrom
17 George Armstrong
18 Bobby Rousseau
19 Gordie Howe
20 Red Kelly
21 Alex Delvecchio
22 Dickie Moore
23 Marcel Pronovost
24 Doug Barkley
25 Terry Sawchuk
26 Billy Harris
27 Parker MacDonald
28 Don Marshall
29 Norm Ullman
30A Andre Pronovost
30B Vic Stasiuk
31 Bill Gadsby
32 Eddie Shack
33 Larry Jeffrey
34 Gilles Tremblay
35 Howie Young
36 Bruce MacGregor