Pinkerton question

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Posted By: Jeff Mohler

Can anyone tell me what set the card from Mike Pugeda is from? I just picked up three cards from the set at a country auction, but I don't know what they are from. I am a very new collector, so forgive my ignorance.





edited title for clarification (leon)

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Posted By: Paul

1911 Pinkerton. Some of the cards in the set have been cataloged with blank backs, postcard backs, or scorecard backs.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I database didn't show a player by that name. I checked baseball-reference and there is no major leaguer with that last name. Do you have a scan of the cards that we can see?

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: Jeff Mohler

I found out that my "cards" are Pinkerton blank back postcards (without the nice gray border). They look like SGC 10's. I hope I didn't do too badly at $20.00 a piece.

Many thanks to the members who responded so quickly to a beginner's question.

Jeff Mohler

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Posted By: WARSHAWLAW

The checklist on these is incomplete and growing.

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Posted By: Paul

Mike Pugeda is a person who posted on the board under the sept pick ups thread. He had a Cobb Pinkerton.

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Posted By: jay behrens

ok, that explains it then. I was very confused, lol.

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: Mike Pugeda

Wow, I haven't had my name brought up that much since I dated the prinicipal's daughter (kidding)

Jeff, as others have stated, it is a 1911 Pinkerton PC with blank-back.
I believe they also came with scorecard backs although I'm not sure which are tougher to come by.

The actual Pinkerton cabinets (T5?) are consederably scarcer and $$$$$.

Mike Pugeda

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Posted By: Paul

Mike, good thing there isn't a Pugeda Pinkerton card. You'd probably be too old to post messages by now.

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Posted By: John

I have a blank-backed postcard style Pinkerton of Babe Adams. I have read that these were reproduced in the 50's. Are there any defining characteristics that differentiate the period blank-backs from the newer issues? The jury is still out on the one that I own.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I've never heard of that before.

I know that the specimens I have (which came from different sources) have age foxing that would be very hard to fake and are not 2nd generation prints.

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Posted By: John

I heard that information from the individual that I purchased the card from a year ago. I will post mine later this evening.

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Posted By: John

As requested by a few members via email, here are images of T5 blank-backed Babe Adams. To clarify my previous statement/question regarding my uncertainty of its age, the card was bought from a postcard dealer who told me that it was most likely a reproduction from the 50's. As much as I hoped otherwise, I did not press for any more details as I only paid $4 (last year). The card measures about 5 3/8" by 3 1/2", is on thin semi-gloss stock, and does not appear to have once been attached to a backing. Hopefully this description is consistent with other blank-backed T5's. I have no others to compare. A nice piece for a Pirate's collector nonetheless.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

That looks quite different from the ones I have, which are not glossy and the information box is white. Yours looks like a 2nd generation print.