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1940 Airplane Pictures
(R9)
Kerr’s Butter Scotch, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, USA
Series Title: Airplane Pictures
American Card Catalog Number: R9
Issued by: Kerr’s Butter Scotch, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, USA
Issued with: Kerr’s Butter Scotch Candy
Country: USA
Number of Cards: 24K
Card Numbering: Unnumbered
Type of Card: Food issue
Card Dimensions: 38 × 53 mm
Circa: 1940
Overview
The Kerr’s Butter Scotch Airplane Pictures (R9) card series is by far one of the most challenging airplane card sets to acquire. Even though the set is assumed to contain only 24 cards with 23 airplane images, the chance of collecting a full-set is extremely difficult. Most of the R9 cards seen today are usually sub-quality cards, with many quality issues. The higher-grade cards seem to be extremely scarce.
The Airplane Pictures (R9) card set was issued in 1940 by the Kerr’s Butter Scotch, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, USA. The Airplane Pictures card set was a clever design that had collectors hunting for key letter cards rather than numbered cards. The cards contained a capitalized key letter located in the lower right-hand corner on the card back. The object was to collect cards that spelled out the company’s name - KERRS BUTTER SCOTCH. This turned out to be a not-so-easy-task. The frustrating thing about this set’s checklist has yet to be validated.
It appears that the only way to validate the checklist, is to have the cards in hand that spell out Kerr’s Butter Scotch. Jeff Alexander’s House of Checklists shows the set containing 23 cards, which includes the Lockheed XP-38 (S) card. The Lockheed XP-38 (S) card is not listed on the Network 54 Vintage Non-Sports Cards Chat Board. However, the Network 54 Vintage Non-Sports Cards Chat Board website reports that there are two Boeing B-17 cards, one with the key letter (K) and the other with the key letter (U). We do not know whether or not the two Boeing B-17 cards are identical, except for the two Key letters of K and U. Be that as it may, the combination of these two checklists brings the total number of cards to 24. Logically, only 17 cards are needed to complete the set. However, duplicate key numbers do appear in the known cards. A cross-reference table of key numbers versus known aircraft cards are shown below. The cards themselves measure 38 × 53 mm. The American Card Catalog designation for the set is R9.
| 1940 Airplane Pictures (R9)
Kerr’s Butter Scotch, Inc., 24K-Cards, USA CHECKLIST | |||
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| Key Letter | Known Card Title | ||
| K | B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress (K) P-26 Boeing Pursuit Plane (K) BT-8 Seversky Basic Trainer (K) | ||
| E | FM-1 Bell Multiplace Fighter (E) | ||
| R | B-15 Boeing Bomber (R) | ||
| R | P-36B Curtiss Pursuit Plane (R) | ||
| S | OA-9 Grumman Observation Amphibian (S) A-8 Sikorsky Observation Amphibian (S) | ||
| B | SB2U-2 Chance Vought Scout Bomber (B) | ||
| U | B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress (U) [unconfirmed] | ||
| T | SBC-3 Curtiss Scout Bomber (T) NJ-1 North American Basic Trainer (T) | ||
| T | F3F-1 Grumman Fighter (R) | ||
| E | A-18 Curtiss Attack Plane (E) | ||
| R | P-37 Curtiss - 1,000 H.P. Allison Engine (R) P-35 Seversky Pursuit Plane (R) | ||
| S | XP-38 Lockheed Plane (S) | ||
| C | XF2A-1 Brewster Fighter (C) | ||
| O | PBY-4 Consolidated Patrol Bomber (?) TBD-1 Douglas Torpedo Bomber (?) | ||
| T | JF-1 Grumman Single Motor Amphibian Biplane (T) SF-1 Grumman Scout (T) | ||
| C | XPB2Y-1 Consolidated Patrol Bomber (C) XF4F-4 Grumman Fighter (C) | ||
| H | PBY-4 Consolidated Patrol Bomber (?) TBD-1 Douglas Torpedo Bomber (?) | ||
Image-Guide
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Checklist
1940 Airplane Pictures(R9) Kerr’s Butter Scotch, Inc., 24K-Cards, USA KEY LETTERS vs. KNOWN CARD TITLES | |||
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| Key Letter | x | Known Card Title | |
| E | FM-1 Bell Multiplace Fighter (E) | ||
| R | B-15 Boeing Bomber (R) | ||
| K | B-17 Boeing Bomber Flying Fortress (K) | ||
| U | B-17 Boeing Bomber Flying Fortress (U) [unverified] | ||
| K | P-26 Boeing Pursuit Plane (K) | ||
| C | XF2A-1 Brewster Fighter (C) | ||
| B | SB2U-2 Chance Vought Scout Bomber (B) | ||
| ? | PBY-4 Consolidated Patrol Bomber (?) [unverified] | ||
| C | XPB2Y-1 Consolidated Patrol Bomber (C) | ||
| E | A-18 Curtiss Attack Plane (E) | ||
| R | P-36B Curtiss Pursuit Plane (R) | ||
| R | P-37 - 1,000 H.P. Allison Engine (R) | ||
| T | SBC-3 Curtiss Scout Bomber (T) | ||
| ? | TBD-1 Douglas Torpedo Bomber (?) [unverified] | ||
| R | F3F-1 Grumman Fighter (R) | ||
| T | JF-1 Grumman Single Motor Amphibian Biplane (T) | ||
| S | OA-9 Grumman Observation Amphibian (S) | ||
| T | SF-1 Grumman Scout (T) | ||
| C | XF4F-4 Grumman Fighter (C) | ||
| S | XP-38 Lockheed Plane (S) [unverified] | ||
| T | NJ-1 North American Basic Trainer (T) | ||
| K | BT-8 Seversky Basic Trainer (K) | ||
| R | P-35 Seversky Pursuit Plane (R) | ||
| S | A-8 Sikorsky Observation Amphibion (S) | ||
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