Collectibles: Tom Tyler on the R96-3 movie card

One of the rarer Tom Tyler collectible color movie cards is from the R96-3 set, issued around 1938 or 1939. These cards were originally issued as panels or sheets measuring 6" x 8" containing six different stars in two rows of three, often with a film genre for each panel. For the R96-3 panel that contains a full-color photo of Tom Tyler as Sundown Saunders from “Powdersmoke Range” (1935), the theme is western stars. There are a minimum of seventeen known different panels of Hollywood stars on them. When cut from the panels, each card measures 2 ½” x 3 1/8” in size. The backs of the cards are blank with no identifying manufacturer. At least 64 cards in the set were issued, and some of the cards printed appear on more than one panel, or as duplicates in the set. Other Hollywood star who appeared in the R96-3 series include William Boyd, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, Dean Jagger, and Sally Payne.