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[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by chadeast

I just want to say that this thread is awesome! Thanks to everyone for sharing your amazing cards. T218, T220, T226, the E cards, etc., they're all beautiful! The best part about stepping into this world for me has been learning about the turn-of-the-century boxers in the T9 set. I knew I was in trouble when I bid on and won a T218 Jeffries about a week after I got my T9s. I'm going to be taking a close look at the Jeffries barn the next time I'm at Knotts Berry Farm.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Adam, thanks for posting this. Do I remember correctly that you've taken an interest in Jeffries due to his connections with Burbank? I think that I read that in one of your posts.

[Exhibitman]

Yep. I can practically walk to his old ranch from my office. Some other Jeffries-Burbank related items I have:

7.5" x 9.5" [10" x 12" mount] mounted photo of Jim Jeffries on his farm in Burbank with his pup, with a handwritten copyright of 1906 By Jas. J. Jeffries and Jas. M. Johnson [perhaps the photographer], captioned "The Good Friends" in pencil on the mount. Purportedly from his estate.



An invite to Jim Jeffries' 75th birthday party, sent to the Stewerts, who were close friends. Mr. S was the manager of the boxing arena in Ontario, CA.



Inside of the cover from a 1941 edition of The Knockout showing Jeff on the farm:



A GPC invitation and the only two known tickets from the dinner referenced in the text of the previous item:

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Yep. I can practically walk to his old ranch from my office. Some other Jeffries-Burbank related items I have:

Amazing pieces! Thanks so much for sharing them. It really makes you wonder who was at that dinner on Sept 6 1941.

[Pat R]

I mostly collect T206's but I do have a few cards from other 1900's sets I didn't have any T220's but Greg's thread inspired me to pick one up.

I like the Tolstoi backs and I found this Donovan.
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[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by chadeast

Amazing pieces! Thanks so much for sharing them. It really makes you wonder who was at that dinner on Sept 6 1941.

At a CSAC dinner, my guess is certainly this guy:

[G1911]

Welcome to T220 Pat!

[G1911]

Some of my pickups this week.

More Silvers, because why not? A T225 I needed for my master set run, and 3 more T227's. Klaus is an upgrade, Coulon I had one of, and Wolgast gives me all 3 of his possible back types. The Gans and Donovan's are upgrades.

3 of the cards are something special. The Coburn may or may not be a proof. It's a blank back, missing his name, and has what seems to be a cutting line at the very top of the card. I've never seen another like it, happy to have it as a centerpiece in my T220 silver collection. The McAuliffe next to it might be a proof; it's missing the silver layer, probably handcut (the edges so worn down it's hard to be certain it originally was handcut) and also blank backed. The McAuliffe is just like the cards on the sheets I discovered a couple months ago. Both are unique items. T220-1 Silver is my favorite set of cards, so unique cards from it are about as cool as cool gets in my book. Very happy to add these to my set.

The Jack Johnson doesn't look special at first, but it's not much more common than the unique cards here. Until very recently, I had this as a probable no print with the Hassan, Series 2 notation, factory 30 back until another collector showed me his Johnson with this back. factory 30 backs are tougher than 649, but this back is not notably difficult with any of the other 50 subjects on which it is found. I strongly suspect, though cannot quite prove, that the green pose Jack Johnson was mostly printed on it's own sheet separate from the other cards after his late addition to the series 1 checklist and rule-breaking continuance into series 2. SGC 4.5's are usually out of my price range, but when very rare items are encountered one can't be picky about keep to the Fair's. I highly doubt the hobby will ever put much value on non-Tolstoi backed T218's, no matter how truly rare (this combination is tougher than Johnson Blue with a Tolstoi, easily), but for me it is a major pick up because of the back. And by far the most I've paid for a T218. This puts me at 621/632 cards to complete the master set, with the most difficult cards crossed off. 1 tough Mecca cards, 8 Tolstoi's, and 2 commons I just haven't grabbed left to complete. Very happy it's owner was kind enough to let it go to a new home where it will hopefully reside for decades in an eventually completed master set.