Uggliest Pre War Issue or Card

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Runscott

And to the guy who said T205 - I blast forth a virtual raspberry.

T205... where you can see pasty heads float among a sea of "gold"...

At least T206 portraits had the decency to include a pair of shoulders...

[Hot Springs Bathers]

T205 is probably my favorite set from this era, they are beautiful and while I have only owned one T204 it is quite nice though a bit plain. I really love the T206s too.

I think this is fun, it just shows that we all have different tastes.

Many of those strip cards are ugly but they reflect the art of the times, check out some 1915-35 comic strips, really ugly by today's standards.

[brianp-beme]

A few of my 'favorite' ugly cards/sets. The W9316's are pitiful, even the squiggles in the Cadore variation can't camoflage the crude drawings. The W515's are bizarre looking until you realize they would make create 30's era cartoon villians...just take a look at Alexander and Frisch. The Maranville is in a league all of its own with his all angles rhomboid face. The D381's in general have unflattering closeups that show a lot of wrinkles, bags under the eyes, skin blemishes and bad teeth, and when you are unattractive like Egan it just magnifies the hideous. I always thought the M101-4/5 of Janvrin made him look like a pinhead. And the Donovan card is easily the worst of the E121 sets...egad those eyebrows, that smile, those wooden denture teeth.

Brian

[vintagerookies51]

I'd have to agree with T206Collector on the T205 debacle. I would take the catcher with the flounder card over a T205

[Anthony S.]

The faux wood paneling on C46's always reminded me of the cheesy wood paneling in the Brady Bunch's family room. Even when I was 5, I knew that room was hideous.

[pbspelly]

I'll add my vote to the T207s. I've got a couple T207s of my great-grandfather Billy Sullivan and I don't show them to anybody. The only thing I like about them is the lengthy bio on the back.