Help with strip card identification

[fkw]

1922? has something changed? I dont have new catalogs...

I have the year listed as 1925 (Hack Wilson's rookie is in the NY NL set), but they (4 different team sheets) may have been made for more than 1 years...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by fkw

1922? has something changed? I dont have new catalogs...

I have the year listed as 1925 (Hack Wilson's rookie is in the NY NL set), but they (4 different team sheets) may have been made for more than 1 years...

I have the year listed at 1925 too. This sheet was longer than my scanner .

[FrankWakefield]

For starters, that's a nice little card, Marc.

Next, I was impressed with Todd's identifying it as a w504, with lightening speed.

I don't have one of these. If Leon wasn't so greedy he'd cut one out of that sheet he has... how greedy of him to have all of those!!!

Bert Sugar's publication has a 1925 date, "c. 1925". I've not looked at players' team affiliation to suggest a date, but I'd lean toward that 1925 date until someone has a reason to think otherwise.

Leon, email me and I'll send you a mailing address so you can mail me whichever one of those you want to cut out.

[FrankWakefield]

Fournier was with St. Louis in 1922, his first year with Brooklyn was 1923, where he played through 1926.

Tiny Osborne was with the Cubs until traded to Brooklyn on May 16, 1924. He was there for the rest of the 1924 season, and for the 1925 season.

Eddie Brown played for Brooklyn only 2 seasons, 1924 and 1925. Same for Johnny Mitchell.

Tommy Griffith was with Brooklyn from the 1919 season until traded May 9th, 1925, when he went to the Cubs.

Bill Doak was with the Cardinals until traded to the Brooklyn Robins on June 14, 1924.

Absent clairvoyance, the Brooklyn card for Doak couldn't have been printed until June of 1924. Given that, and that 1925 was the last year that Brown, Griffith, Mitchell and Osborne played for Brooklyn, I think 1925 is the correct date for this issue.

[marcdelpercio]

Thanks Frank! Yes, I was also very impressed with the quick response and identification. Maybe the card number correspondence with the W575 set is where the 1922 date came from but it appears that is just coincidental so it seems like the 1925 date is probably accurate. Either way, I knew I hadn't seen many of these before so was glad to pick it up. Thanks to everybody for the responses and information!

[fkw]

just wanted to add, that there are known reprints of the W504 Brooklyn cards.

it looks like they are a blue tint, and the card stock is different and looks like it has "reprint" on the backs
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1925-UNIVERS...-/200587698935

here is an image of one of the authentic cards I have so you can see what the backs (and card stock) look like.

[steve B]

Are the blue ones on lighter stock always reprints?

The one I have is that way, and pretty worn. The wear seems real, not like most falsely aged cards.

Steve B

[Brian Van Horn]

Some of many I have: