Longest time between cards issued with same image on front

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Having just picked up a Tango Eggs Chase, I thought about the fact that the card's image is the same as many Chase cards including E 92, E 101, 102, 106, T 216 and I'm guessing others that I've missed. I understand that card manufacturers saved money by using the same image numerous times; but what is the longest period of time between the use of identical images?

For Chase, I believe it to be the E 92 (1909) and Tango Eggs cards (1916).

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Posted By: leon

I think there are some T213-3's (circa 1919) that will have images from 1909 too......just a guess without giving much thought....you know is type card guys....

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Are we excluding TCMA from this discussion?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Leon, I suppose the type 3 T-213s are the last of the tobacco cards to have that same image type as the E92s. I wonder why baseball cards distributed in cigarette packs were no longer made like that in the 1920s. Did cigarette packs become wider like they are today? At the very least the T231s were skinny (1922).

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Posted By: Pennsylvania Ted

These two Wagner's are from my E90-1 set, which I believe was initially issued in 1908.

And, these same depictions continue thru various E-cards and finally in the 1916 T216 tobacco cards (Kotton,
Mino, and Virginia Extras)

TED Z

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Posted By: leon

I am not sure I would use the analogy of the T231 set since so little is known about it. Cigarette packs did get wider in the 1920's (I believe, as before that they were a lot of slide shells) but I don't know if that has to do with why tobacco cards weren't put in them anymore. There were some international sets that continued using the tobacco venue to distribute cards into the 1930's.....(also Red Man comes to mind but I don't know why)....regards

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Posted By: dstudeba

The Plank portrait used in his e107 (1903) was also in many later issues; Sporting News, E95, t206 etc.

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Posted By: Jeff Sherman

1933 Goudey Sport Kings and the 1955 Topps All-American Football.. same picture, cropped differently.. that's 22 years....

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Posted By: Matt Goebel

I always thought it was interesting that Sisler's rookie card (M101 Sporting News) and one of his last cards (1927 E126 American Caramel) have the same image.

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

sets from 1928 are notorious for re-using old photos. Below is a Schalk used by w502 in 1928, 8-10 years after m101-6. Also see Zeb Terry, who can be found with the same photo in the 1928 sets as HOFer Bill Terry:

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I think the Post War record is Ann Landers' picture used for advice column. I think I saw that same picture in the morning paper from when I was middle school until she died.