T209-1 Contentnea ....Bourquise?

[rhettyeakley]

Joe, I would be lying if I said I haven't dreamt of finding a T209-1 of Jim Thorpe w/ Rocky Mount or even a T209-2 or T210-7 of him with either RM or Fayetteville. Now how much would these cards bring if one was actually found?
-Rhett

Good to see you posting here Keith!

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

Joe, I would be lying if I said I haven't dreamt of finding a T209-1 of Jim Thorpe w/ Rocky Mount or even a T209-2 or T210-7 of him with either RM or Fayetteville. Now how much would these cards bring if one was actually found?
-Rhett

Good to see you posting here Keith!

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There isn't a knowledgeable real collector, or semi brain picker out there that hasn't thought of it ..... but nobody wants to talk about it.

As for the price ... I don't even want to go there.
Shoeless Joe might run second to fast and shifty Jim Thorpe.
I've never bought a card thinking of what it might fetch later.

[Matt]

Keith - welcome to the board! I'm glad you've joined this active community of collectors. Perhaps you can post some of those pictures you mentioned that Cooperstown sent you that are missing IDs? As I mentioned last month, I think this board could ID most if not all of them in short order.

[Merkle923]

Sadly I don't they've scanned the "File Of The Unidentified" - but a lot of the remaining stuff seemed to be Town Teams of the 1800's.

As to a T209 Thorpe, I always had the impression that certainly for T209-2 he might have 'missed photo day' - he might've still been in the school year as the seasons began in the Carolinas. Since there are at least a dozen T209-2's that depict guys who never actually played in any games in 1910 (this includes those super rare Reeves and Steinbach finds), and since the cards show the first city for a team that switched venues in July, the cards were clearly made early rather than late.

So this means, I think, if there had been a T209-2 of Thorpe, it would actually be a numerically scarce card added late in the distribution process!

[Potomac Yank]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Sadly I don't they've scanned the "File Of The Unidentified" - but a lot of the remaining stuff seemed to be Town Teams of the 1800's.

As to a T209 Thorpe, I always had the impression that certainly for T209-2 he might have 'missed photo day' - he might've still been in the school year as the seasons began in the Carolinas. Since there are at least a dozen T209-2's that depict guys who never actually played in any games in 1910 (this includes those super rare Reeves and Steinbach finds), and since the cards show the first city for a team that switched venues in July, the cards were clearly made early rather than late.

So this means, I think, if there had been a T209-2 of Thorpe, it would actually be a numerically scarce card added late in the distribution process!

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That's an interesting take on the Jim Thorpe Photo absence.
School time makes sense.

"So this means, I think, if there had been a T209-2 of Thorpe, it would actually be a numerically scarce card added late in the distribution process!"

KO, the above wouldn't bother me at all ... It keeps my hopes alive ... It's the ones that were added one hundred years later, those annoy me.

I have 219 of the T209-2's, and I'm happy to say that the Reeves, and Steinbach are among them.

There are many questions to the set, but the hunt is where it's at.

Still working on the Fulton connection.
Keep those questions coming.

Joe P.

[ethicsprof]

Welcome aboard KO.
You belong with fellow collectors as well as Chris M.,Rachel M. et al.

best,
barry

[Potomac Yank]

Holding my breath waiting to hear Ralphie say:

"I have seen three T209 Thorpe's"