1911 Zeenuts background shades of sepia

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

I recently picked up a duplicate 1911 Hogan Zeenut card.

I noticed it had a light olive color background compared to a much darker brown color background seen on the first one I purchased a few months prior. Curious as to whether other Zeenut collectors have seen this range of color on the backgrounds? I have included scans of each card to show the wide color swing.

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Posted By: leon

Hey Patrick,
I had over 110 from an original collection and they were different shades. There were no dupes so I don't know if individual players had different shades. My guess is they did......I do know they came with different size writing on the front. I kept a small, medium, and large print variety for my collection.....regards

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Wouldn't it be nice to pick up a triplicate in a light tan?

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Thanks for the response Leon. In addition to the information that you mentioned regarding the varying print sizes, the issue is also known to have different size player poses.

Also Gilbert, I bought the 2nd card because it had the different color background. Unlike some others on the board, I'm not a hoarder trying to drive up prices by buying up multiples of an issue.

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: runscott

man, the N172 Corcoran must be worth thousands by now.

I once tried hoarding t206 Mike Powers cards - not to drive up the price, but just to weird out my heirs. I plan to try the same with Bowman Mickey Grasso cards.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

The weirding out of heirs deserves its own trhread IMHO.

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Posted By: runscott

I've heard several board members express concern over what their heirs would do with all their "stuff". My opinion is to catalog it well, and to specify a name in your will for someone the heirs should contact to help sell the items.

But if you don't like your heirs, will your cards to me and store them somewhere under my name (I promise not to go get them while you are still alive), and stuff your closets with really weird vintage stuff that will drive them crazy because they'll think it's worth a lot, but it isn't.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

about my cards and I'm still here. A typical exchange at my house:

(Wife) I want to [fill in blank with unneeded home improvement; yesterday it was plant $1,000 worth of flowers via a professional landscaper. In November].
(Me) Sorry, can't afford it.
(Wife) Why not sell off some baseball cards? They're not doing any good sitting in the cabinet.
(Me) Hey, I don't carouse, I don't play golf or have expensive tastes in cars, I collect cards. They're a sound investment anyway, not like those small cap stocks you keep trying to trade. If you want the [silly improvement] so bad, why don't you get a job and pay for it?
(Wife) I don't want to.
(Me) I'm going to the office.

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Posted By: jay behrens

When I owned the gmaing and comic store, Magic: The Gathering along with several other collectible card games were very popular. We would take a very unpoular card from the game called Atog in trade. When I got out of the store, we had almost 10,000 of these cards. I personally colelcted Dead Jawas from the STar Wars game and have over 1,000 of them. Someone I really hate is gonna get willed those 1,000 Dead Jawas. Should make for good fun at the reading of the will, hehe.

Jay

I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Jay, I understand that some game cards can sell for hundreds of dollars. Did you experience counterfeit attempts when you had the store?

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Posted By: Julie

(present day, not Civil War) by the time I die, if not sooner.

The conmversation with the wife also sounds all-too-familiar, except it's with a husband.

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Posted By: jay behrens

there were some attempts to fake high dollar cards, but I never saw any that couldn't be spotted easily. Most fake attempts were done by peeling the front off and putting a laser print of the desired card onto the remaining back. This doesn't work well since the gloss and texture are now gone.

The stock that these cards are made on is not cheap, thus making good fakes very expensive and not worth the trouble. I'm not sure where the market is now, but when I got out over 5 years ago there was one card valued over $400 and 6 others over $150. Not exactly fertile grounds for making money from fakes

Jay

I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.