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[sthoemke]

Interesting article about Mervine Thompson, 1883.

[refz]

Sugar Ray!

[G1911]

6 more Red Crosses for the t219 master set build. Conley and Walsh are dupes but at a price I couldn't resist, hoping to trade them eventually. At 165/200 for the T219 set, with only 1 Miners Extra (Jack Twin Sullivan) and 1 Honest Long Cut Green (Willie Lewis) to go. Probably will never finish Red Cross, but I'd like to get as close as I can. With T218 finished, T219 and C52 feel like holes in the collection I have to fill.

[G1911]

159/250 in T225-1 now with this O'Leary Surbrug no factory back. A couple of the backs are difficult, but the greater difficulty is just finding a pool of cards to go through and pick what I need, as great confusion and pedantry over the 10 backs limits me to mostly trolling eBay listings with back scans to find the cards I still need. Thankfully there's no Jack Johnson so this is a cheap master build if I ever finish it.

[Exhibitman]

I have liquidated nearly all of the T225s I owned. I am looking to rebuild in higher grade with just the cards I really like, aesthetically speaking. Maybe 5 or so.

I notice that a few of the T219 Red Cross cards have wormholes similar to what you see with Cuban issues. I've had a few of them too over the years. I don't recall seeing those with other T boxing cards. I wonder if it is something about the storage: perhaps a large % of the RC backs originated in the same 'buggy' hoard?

What're you missing in T219 RC?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I have liquidated nearly all of the T225s I owned. I am looking to rebuild in higher grade with just the cards I really like, aesthetically speaking. Maybe 5 or so.

I notice that a few of the T219 Red Cross cards have wormholes similar to what you see with Cuban issues. I've had a few of them too over the years. I don't recall seeing those with other T boxing cards. I wonder if it is something about the storage: perhaps a large % of the RC backs originated in the same 'buggy' hoard?

What're you missing in T219 RC?

Seems to me that most of the RC's in circulation are from a tiny number of original finds/collections/sources. Unlike a lot of the T sets where the rare ones come up 1 or 2 at a time, it's always seemed to me that the RC's have originated in bulk sources. Lithographers sure went to a lot of work for a set with a small production run to recrop everything. Won’t ever finish it, but it’s a fun ride to come as close as practicable. Johnson ain't worth it unless I manage to round up the 49 others, and that's probably not happening unless I luck into a hoard. Sometimes you get lucky


Still hunting for:

Honest Long Cut Green Back
Willie Lewis

Miners Extra
Jack Sullivan

Red Cross
Matty Baldwin
Patsy Brannigan
Young Corbett
Leach Cross
Al Delmont
Dave Deshler
Young Donahoe
Jim Driscoll
Abe Goodman
Battling Hurley
Joe Jeanette
Jack Johnson
Al Kaufman
Frank Klaus
Patsey Kline
Sam Langford
Harry Lewis
Young Loughrey
Johnny Marto
Honey Mellody
Owen Moran
Battling Nelson
Fighting Dick Nelson
Young Nitchie
Phila. Jack O’Brien
Tommy O’Keefe
Tommy O’Toole
Unk Russell
Jim Stewart
Harry Stone
Jack Sullivan
Mike Sullivan
Ad Wolgast

[G1911]

161, 162 and 163 for the master set. The Sharkey is the cool one, as you can see part of the card back on the front from wet sheet stacking. Sharkey is also now my first completed fighter run, all 10 of his backs down.

[Exhibitman]

An obscure 1930s Chilean card:

[G1911]

Getting increasingly difficult to locate cards I need in my main wheelhouse, but life is too short not to buy cool boxing cards. It's not a T card or an N card, but its an American Tobacco card of a boxer, so I think this counts. Couldn't resist at $10 after shipping and tax. Now I have to pick up the 2-line version. There was also a really gorgeous color store display of Louis promoting Chesterfield. I'm not sure if the 3-line or the 2-line postcard was produced first, but the 3-line seems slightly more common.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Getting increasingly difficult to locate cards I need in my main wheelhouse, but life is too short not to buy cool boxing cards. It's not a T card or an N card, but its an American Tobacco card of a boxer, so I think this counts. Couldn't resist at $10 after shipping and tax. Now I have to pick up the 2-line version. There was also a really gorgeous color store display of Louis promoting Chesterfield. I'm not sure if the 3-line or the 2-line postcard was produced first, but the 3-line seems slightly more common.

There's also a postcard back.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

There's also a postcard back.

There always turns out to be something else I have to go buy

[Exhibitman]

I think I can hook you up.