Home Run Kisses back survey

[rhettyeakley]

Leon, my Heinie Heitmuller is the one with the ad back, and I too had noticed when you see a HRK w/ an ad back it tends to be Heitmuller as well.

On a similar note, in the 1912 Zeenut set I have seen more Otto Auer cards with the Zeenuts ad back than other cards in the set. Anyone else notice this?


-Rhett

[Solons42]

Hi-
I guess I'm getting into this late, but I've got 9 HRKs: 6 with Bardell/Sepia back; 3 with the ad back; and, no blank.
Alan

[Vintagecatcher]

A quick count of the Home Run Kisses still in our collections is as follows:


44 with the "larger" Bardell Sepia logo
(a smaller version logo can be seen in the 1912 Zeenut set)

4 Advertising backs

1 Blank back proof

Perhaps Mark Macrae can chime in on this topic?

Looks like the Bardell Sepia is by far the most common back, and the Ad backs are quite a bit tougher to find. Other than the proof and the skinned back example, does anyone have a true, blank back Home Run Kisses card?

Do blank back versions even exist or has the guides incorrectly listed the blank back confusing them with the 1911 Zeenut issue?

Thanks again for your responses,


Patrick

[Vintagecatcher]

On one of my 7 Home Run Kisses, Duth Auer, the ornate border design is visable on the back bottom border. None of my other Home Run Kisses has this unusual printing charactersitic.

Here is a scan of that back:




Patrick

[Vintagecatcher]

I just checked Lew Lipset's The Encyclopedia of BASEBALL CARDS Vol 2 Early Gum & Candy Cards. Lew writes, "The cards are not dated and most are blank backed except for the logo "Bardell Sepia San Francisco" written on what appears to be an artist's pallette. Some cards are found with the following inscription on the rear, Save HOME RUN KISSES Pictures for valuable premiums. List will be issued July 15, 1912 COLLINS-McCARTHY CANDY CO. San Francisco, Cal."

After reading Lew's description, I can see how the person who wrote the introduction for SCD's Home Run Kisses section must have mis-read Lew's description.

Patrick