Starting up another Orange Border thread! The E-unc handcut cards this time....

[Hal Kaplan]

Here's an old pic of the box I once found online, but I can't remember where I got it. Lipset's Encyclopedia (Vol. 2) mentions the text on the top, bottom, and sides of the box. One of these four panels mentions the P.R. Warren Co., which is also identified on the back of the E125's (Possibly the printer or designer, as the E125's and orange borders are similar in style?
Anyone have any ideas?) Maybe someone will recognize this auction and still have the catalog, and be able to post more info or a better pic. Hope this helps!

[calvindog]

Hal, that's great stuff. I can't believe we've never seen those two boxes -- or any others -- again.

[Wesley]

SGC should have minimum size requirements for these cards. At the very least, the cards with the orange borders entirely cut off should not receive number grades.

[shammus]

That's the funny thing - there don't appear to be size requirements with this set. Obviously a card with borders trimmed off isn't going to meet the size requirements set up by all the cards that have borders. Yet they still receive a numeric grade. Wavy or hacked up borders qualify as well. I can't say that I can think of any other set that gets this much flexibility from SGC either.

[E93]

Jeff,
That Cobb sucks. You should get rid of it immediately. Call if you need help.
JimB

[rickswaine]

Thought someone might want to see this Bill Donovan that's not listed in SCD.

[Abravefan11]

Magee is also not listed in the SCD.

[brianp-beme]

I believe the Donovan with the orange borders is actually considered an orange bordered Baseball Bats because it includes a team name.

Brian

[shammus]

Hey, thanks for showing both the Donovan and Magee cards!

The Donovan is a 1911 Baseball Bats card but that's perfectly fine since we've been discussing those in this set too. Baseball Bats have three distinct variations which Leon shows off very nicely in the second post in this thread. One variation has orange borders with a reddish background.

As for the Magee, I'm not sure. If you look close in the upper right corner and lower left corner, you can see that the border is dark and rounded. The orange borders have a thin WHITE border directly inside the orange border and the corners are always cut to right angles. There's also no hint of orange anywhere on it.

I know the Harry Niles that Ben Fisher has also has the rounded corners. I know the board was split down the middle on whether or not that card was an orange border or not. Maybe the Magee falls into the same catagory as the Niles?

[fkw]

That Orange Border box image was from an auction lot I cut from an old auction catalog included in SCD's back in the late 1990s-2002 era (Lipset I think). I recognize the green doodle bid in the bottom right corner. I'll see if I can find the catalog and see if that $1400 was the winning bid or what I wanted to bid