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Originally Posted by obiwin (Post 1438050)

Thanks for sharing! That's a really great photo of Lone Star. Now I'm regretting not going to the National this year!

Out of curiosity, is it a RPPC? If so, is it trimmed with some glue and black paper on the back as if it had been torn from a scrapbook?

I have several other Lone Star items that I've slowly pieced together over the years that all have these similar traits. I'm thinking they all once were part of one person's collection that got broken up.

No, its a photo with a date stamp on the back. No back damage on this one.

jeff

Picked up this 1893 Cabinet of National Champs Princeton at the National.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...50801_0010.jpg

There are eight players in this picture that are in the Mayo football set! can you pick them out?

jeff

I'll take a shot:

Left Side:

Brown far left?
Is Holly second from the left?
Ward 3rd from left sitting?

Right Side:
Lea far right?
Barnett second from right?
Taylor or Burt third from right?

Middle:
Morse sitting in front?
Trencher holding the ball?

Was able to match this photo with one in a Princeton archive that had each player identified:

Standing in back: Wheeler, Holly, Blake
Sitting in middle row: Brown, Balliett, Trenchard, King, Taylor, Lea
Front Row: Ward, Morse

Mayo players in bold.

It is generally believed that the Mayo set was created from player images taken from 1893 team photos. Photo images were touched up to remove surrounding players and uniforms were redrawn/sketched as needed. You can see the similarity when comparing the poses in this team photo with the Mayo cards themselves.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0021.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0032.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0034.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0038.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0043.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0045.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0046.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...40130_0048.jpg

jeff

I can't compete with most of the stuff posted here but I haven't seen any Sport Kings so...

Incidentally, Jeff, Huggins & Scott has another Grange football box in their November auction, item #89244. The graphics are different from yours. I actually like the one you purchased more. No football with this one either.

I think the Sports Kings are great and I think the Rockne card outshines his Chicle card by a mile

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...0Kings%20b.jpg

Nice, guys! Can you imagine if they had done an entire Sports King set of football players?

jeff

I love the Grange and even though it isn't his earliest card, it's still a period card. The vertical stripes on the uniform is a classic look and I think it's the Bears and not Illinois: http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/tea..._ChiBears.html. And I guess because it's 1933, he even looks kind of... tired.

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Originally Posted by DezHood (Post 1446787)

It is definitely his Chicago Bears uniform. The Illinois friction strips come to a peak in the middle and there is no horizontal strip. Look at the shotwell wrapper earlier in this thread for an example.

jeff

Thanks Jeff - glad its an NFL uni - my only quibble then is with the back of the card - he essentially caught the game winning pass in the "Super Bowl" the season before and it didn't even warrant a mention! :)