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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

John, Jack Kelly never played or managed for the Toronto team during the time period Colgans were made. Obviously, the Colgan Gum Co. intended to make a card of Joe Kelley but accidently used an incorrect photo. There are numerous examples in the Colgan set where they used wrong photos...

Murray for St. Paul is actually intended to be James O. Murray but they used John J. (Red) Murray (of the Giants) as his photo.


Jordan has 3 cards in E254. Two were supposed to be Timothy J. (Tim) Jordan (Brooklyn & Louisville), while the one picturing him for Atlanta should be Adolf O. (Dutch) Jordan(also in T206 Southern League set) but they just used the same photo for all 3. I still need the E254 Atlanta but here is my E270 Red to show the mistake...


There are other examples of errors that are known but those are two good examples. I personally believe in these instances it is more important to try and decide who the company was trying to depict on the card, as oppsed to who they mistakenly did picture. In the case of the Kelley card, they were trying to depict Joe Kelley so it should be considered a card of him with a mistake in photo. Same could be said of Yum Yum Anson (Williamson pictured), E97 Cy Youn (Irv Young picture) etc, etc. I don't know that these anomalies are as in as high a demand as the players other cards picturing the correct player, but they are by no means considered to be strictly cards of the lesser known player.
-Rhett