Official Set of Operation Yellow Ribbon Desert Storm Trading Cards

Bryant Graphic (designed by) AMA Group (Copyright holder), 1991. Commemorative Edition [stated]. Deck of Trading Cards, in stiff stock packaging. 60 card set, numbered sequentially, all present. The format is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Color photograph on front side and card number and text on the other side. Package has some wear and soiling. Cards are in very good or better condition. The AMA Group released a colorful trading cards set during this period, dedicating it to the efforts here and abroad that appeared in support of the troops. Yellow ribbons began to appear of trees, signposts, flagpoles and also as well as on pieces of jewelry. This 60 card set included bios on some of the soldiers and behind the scenes personnel. "Operation Yellow Ribbon" is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit who is registered with the state of NJ consisting of all volunteers who shows support for our United States Military Forces serving in the Middle East including Iraq, Afghanistan and those supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve through: 1) Organizing and collecting donated U.S. Troop supplies and goodies to send to our brave Heroes deployed in harm's way in the Middle East including Iraq, Afghanistan and those supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve; and 2) Helping to promote, coordinate, and facilitate welcoming home events for local veterans in the South Jersey area by partnering with the Warriors Watch Riders and other Patriotic organizations to bring our local Heroes home in "Rock Star Fashion". NOTE: This is unrelated to the Canadian operation that diverted flights to Gander after the September 11th terrorist attacks. There were a variety of Gulf War related non-sports trading cards produced in and around the time of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The Operation Yellow Ribbon was produced by AMA group; others were produced by Topps and other publishers more heavily into the development, production, distribution and sales of sports and non-sports trading cards. A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). There is a wide variation of different types of cards. Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports (baseball cards are particularly common) but can also include subjects such as Pokémon and other non-sports trading cards. These often feature cartoons, comic book characters, television series and film stills. Trade cards are the ancestors of trading cards. Some of the earliest prizes found in retail products were cigarette cards—trade cards advertising the product (not to be confused with trading cards) that were inserted into paper packs of cigarettes as stiffeners to protect the contents. Allen and Ginter in the U.S. in 1886, and British company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1888, were the first tobacco companies to print advertisements. A couple years later, lithograph pictures on the cards with an encyclopedic variety of topics from nature to war to sports — subjects that appealed to men who smoked - began to surface as well. By 1900, there were thousands of tobacco card sets manufactured by 300 different companies. Children would stand outside of stores to ask customers who bought cigarettes for the promotional cards. Following the success of cigarette cards, trade cards were produced by manufacturers of other products and included in the product or handed to the customer by the store clerk at the time of purchase. World War II put an end to cigarette card production due to limited paper resources, and after the war cigarette cards never really made a comeback. After that collectors of prizes from retail products took to collecting tea cards in the UK and bubble gum cards in the US. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., now known as "The Topps Company, Inc.", started inserting trading cards into bubble gum packs in 1950 with such topics as TV and film cowboy Hopalong Cassidy; "Bring 'Em Back Alive" cards featuring Frank Buck on big game hunts in Africa; and All-American Football Cards. Topps produced its first baseball trading card set in 1951, with the resulting design resembling that of playing cards. Non-sports trading cards feature subject material relating to anything other than sports, such as comics, movies, music and television.[136] Supersisters was a set of 72 trading cards produced and distributed in the United States in 1979 by Supersisters, Inc., featuring famous women from politics, media and entertainment, culture, and other areas of achievement. The cards were designed in response to the trading cards popular among children in the US at the time which mostly featured men. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Desert Storm, Collectibles, Trading Cards, Weapon Systems, Naval Operations, Desert Warfare, Weapon Systems, Military Operations, Prisoners of War, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf

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