T218 series breakdown and ad backs

[scooter729]

Adam, are there are any Tolstoi boxers specifically that you're looking for? I don't have any duplicates, but potentially could swap with you if I have ones which could help you out...

[Exhibitman]

I have:

Brown
Corbett
Donahoe
Gans
Gardiner, Geo.
Griffin, Charley
Goodman, Jack
Goodman, Abe
Jeannette
Jeffries portrait
Johnson-front
Kaufman
Langford
Mellody
Nelson, Fighting Dick
Nitchie
O'Keefe
Papke
Stone
Sullivan, Mike (Twin)
Walsh, Jimmy

So any others would be on the want list. I also have dupes of Stone and Johnson but unslabbed.

[btcarfagno]

Does anyone know of a definitive master checklist for the T218 series of cards? I have a bunch of Honest Long Cut backs that seem to fit the description of series one backs but are not listed on the series one list of cards at the top of this thread. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could lead me to a master checklist, or at a minimum a definitive series 1 checklist. Series two is easy (they all say Series #2 on the back) and series three are all Mecc and start with "series of champion..." on the back as opposed to the series one Meccas that say "Champion athlete and...".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[scooter729]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Does anyone know of a definitive master checklist for the T218 series of cards? I have a bunch of Honest Long Cut backs that seem to fit the description of series one backs but are not listed on the series one list of cards at the top of this thread. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could lead me to a master checklist, or at a minimum a definitive series 1 checklist. Series two is easy (they all say Series #2 on the back) and series three are all Mecc and start with "series of champion..." on the back as opposed to the series one Meccas that say "Champion athlete and...".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Tom - sounds like your Honest Long Cut backs are likely T219s and not T218s. They use the same images but the T219s are narrower. There are no T218s with HLC backs.

[RCMcKenzie]

Tom, like Scott says, you have T219's. They are all boxers and are a set of 50. They have HLC, Miner's Extra, and Red Cross backs. Here's a T218 compared to a T219....

[btcarfagno]

Oops. My bad. They are Hassan backs. I have since read that there may be some that are part of series 2 but do not say "Series 2" on them? This is confusing.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Oops. My bad. They are Hassan backs. I have since read that there may be some that are part of series 2 but do not say "Series 2" on them? This is confusing.

Here's a thread with more info on T218 backs. see post8 in the following thread... www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=260170

[G1911]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Hey Tom - sounds like your Honest Long Cut backs are likely T219s and not T218s. They use the same images but the T219s are narrower. There are no T218s with HLC backs.

Since we're discussing masters sets - T219 has 50 of the boxer fronts on a physically smaller side. A master set consists of 200 cards, each having 4 differentbacks.


Honest Long Cut, Black Text on back - about 60% of cards
Honest Long Cut, Green Text on back - about 30% of cards
Miners Extra - about 10% of cards
Red Cross - so rare they may as well be a rounding error


No one differentiates between the two HLC backs, it seems. Miners Extra don't sell for very much either, though they are tough cards. I still need 6 to finish my set