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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

For new and old collectors of the T206 set, provided here is the entire checklist of the 1st Series cards and their available backs.
I will follow up with similar checklists for the 350 and 460 Series. Personally, I think by arranging the T206 cards with respect to
their different series lends itself to a better understanding of the front/back permutations of "The Monster".

The added benefit of this knowledge is to help the collector to avoid acquiring "fakes" that have impossible front/back combos.
As is evident in the current Joe Doyle post. An alarming number of such fakes are surfacing....and, many are being Graded.


Shown here are all the possible T206 backs that the 156 Subjects in the 1st Series were printed with.

The 5 possible 150 Subjects backs............

The 5 possible 350 Subjects backs............


1st Series......156 Subjects......unless noted, most of these T206's can be found with either of these 150 or 350 backs


Abbaticcio (brown sleeves)
Alperman.................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Ames (hands/chest)........150-only
Ames (portrait)
Ball (New York)
Bates.....................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Beaumont
Bell (hands/over)
Bender (portrait)
Bergen (bat)
Birmingham........................................ .HORIZONTAL
Bowerman
Bradley (portrait)
Bransfield................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Bresnahan (portrait)..................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Bridwell (no cap)
M Brown (Cubs)..............150-only
M Brown (portrait)
G Brown (Chicago)..........150-only
Burch (batting)...............150-only
Camnitz (arms folded)
Chance (red portrait)
Chase (pink portrait)
Chase (white cap)
Chesbro
Cicotte
Clarke (portrait)
Clarke (bat)
JJ Clarke (Cleveland)...................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Cobb (green portrait)..................No Sovereign 350
Cobb (bat on)
Collins (bat)..............................NEVER ISSUED......see note below
Conroy (fielding)
Coveleski
Crandall (no cap)
Crawford (throwing)
Criger
Criss
Dahlen (Boston)...................rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)
G Davis (Chicago).......................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
H Davis (A's)..............................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
J Delehanty (Washington).............incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Devlin
Donlin (fielding)...............150-only
Donlin (seated)
Donahue
Donovan (portrait)
Dooin
Doolin
Dougherty (portrait)
Larry Doyle (throwing).....150-only
Durham
Elberfeld (portrait-NY)
Evers (blue sky-bat)........150-only
Evers (portrait)
Ewing...................rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill).....incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Ferris
Flick
Ganley...............................rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)
Gibson
Gilbert......................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Goode......................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Griffith (portrait).........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Hahn
Hemphill
Herzog (New York)
Hinchman (Cleveland)
Isbell
Jacklitsch
Jennings (portrait)......................found with Piedmont 150 (no Hindu, Sweet Cap 150, or Sov 150)
Johnson (portrait)........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
F Jones (portrait)
F Jones (hands/hips)
Jones (St Louis)......rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)....incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Jordan (portrait)
Joss (portrait)
Karger................................rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)
Keeler (portrait)
Keeler (bat)
Killian (pitch)..............................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Kleinow (bat)
Kling
Konetchy (glove high)
Lajoie (portrait)
Lajoie (throwing).........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Lake (New York)..........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Leach (portrait)
Leifield (pitching)
Liebhardt...................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Lindaman............................rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)
Lobert
Lumley
Lundgren (Cubs)..........................found only with 3 backs (Piedmont 150, rare Piedmont 350, and very rare EPDG)
Magee (portrait)
Manning (bat).............................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Marquard (hands down)................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Mathewson (portrait)
Mathewson (white cap)................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
McGraw (portrait-no cap)
McGraw (finger/air)
McIntyre (Brooklyn).....................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
McQuillan (ball/hand)....................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Merkle (portrait)
Mullin (throwing).................................HORIZON TAL.....rare Piedmont 350 (no Sweet Cap 350 or Sov 350 or Old Mill)
Murphy (throwing)...............................HORIZONTA L
Nichols (hands/knees)..................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Niles
Oldring (fielding)
O'Leary (portrait)........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Overall (portrait)
Owen........................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Parent
Pastorius....................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Pattee.........................150-only..........HORIZONTAL
Pelty...........................150-only..........HORIZONTAL
Plank..........................................fou nd only with Sweet Cap 150 (Factory 25 or 30)....and Sweet Cap 350 (Factory 30)
Powell............................................ ...HORIZONTAL
Powers........................150-only....incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Reulbach (glove)...........150-only
Ritchey.......................................incl . Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Rucker (portrait)
Schaefer (Detroit)
Schlei (fielding)............................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Schmidt (throwing).......................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Schulte (front view)
Seymour (bat)
Shaw (St Louis)
Sheckard (no glove).....................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Shipke
F Smith (Chicago)
Spade
Spencer.....................................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Stahl (no glove)
Steinfeldt(portrait)
Stone
Stovall (portrait)
Sullivan
L. Tannehill (Chicago)
Tenney
Tinker (portrait)
Tinker (hands/knees)
Turner
Waddell (portrait)
Waddell (throwing)
Honus Wagner..............150-only.....found only with Piedmont 150 or Sweet Cap 150 (Factory 25 or 30)
Wagner (bat/left)..........................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Wallace
Walsh
Weimer
Doc White (portrait)
Wilhelm (arms/chest)......................incl. Sweet Cap 150 Factory 649 overprint
Williams
Willis (portrait)
Wiltse (portrait-no cap)
CYoung (portrait)
CYoung (bare hand)



This Eddie Collins card only exists in proof form. Perhaps, there was a contractual dispute; therefore, it was never issued.



The MAGIE error was caught in an early press run and corrected, MAGEE. The MAGIE card exists only with a Piedmont 150 back.


Hope this listing helps....next, I will follow this up with the 216 cards found in the 2nd major Series (350-only).

And remember......any of these cards with backs other than the 10 shown above, are not an original (authentic) T206.



TED Z