Show Some Eggs

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Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>I just picked up my first T-Unc Tango Egg card: Bescher, of course, but it's in super nice condition. It's really cool seeing a baseball card with an egg advertisement on the back! I just need two bread cards to stack it between, and I've got a breakfast sandwich.<br /><br />I read the previous thread about Tangos, but I thought I would start a new thread on these cards. I have two questions for experts out there:<br /><br />1. How where these cards distributed? Has anyone ever seen a Tango Egg carton (were there even cartons in 1916?), or were they possibly mail-in redemptions? <br /><br />2. Why are Jennings and Bescher the most commonly found? Any ideas on this? Was the family that had the big find fans of the two players?<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Oh, and might as well start a show-me thread, too. I'll get a pic of my Tango in soon as my scanner is up.<br /><br />-Seth B.

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Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>here is the scoop<br /><a href="http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2007/358.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2007/358.html</a>

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Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>Thanks, Dennis! I've seen this REA write-up before. Still, though, wondering if anyone has ever seen a Tango Eggs carton, or if anyone knows how these cards were actually distributed...

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>All good questions and ones I haven't seen answers to. Here is the first or second most common (I think)......Maybe Bescher is most common? <br /><br /><img src="http://luckeycards.com/pfunctangojennings.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>Strange that they used a Joe Tinker picture and slapped a Buck Weaver caption of front, ditto Happy Felsch on a Ray Demmitt card...

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Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/uffda51/frontsbacks/Tango%20Bresnahan.JPG"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/uffda51/frontsbacks/Tango%20Bresnahan%20back.JPG"><br /><br />I owned 10 different Tangos at one time but now only Roger remains.

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Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>Any more out there? Leon, 36 Beschers, 21 Jennings in the SGC Registry, nowhere near as many of the others.<br /><br />Here is my Bescher:<br /><br /><a href="http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh294/sgbernard/?action=view&current=Bescher.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh294/sgbernard/Bescher.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><a href="http://s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh294/sgbernard/?action=view&current=BescherB.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh294/sgbernard/BescherB.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />[Edited to add the SGC Registry numbers]

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Posted By: <b>Bruce MacPherson</b><p>My only Egg card is the Tinker/Weaver. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1203808372.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Here's a few more:<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Chase.tif.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Dooin.tif.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Weaver.tif.jpg"><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Murphy_1.tif.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Meyer_1.tif.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/McQuillan.tif.jpg"><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Bescher.tif.jpg"><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Collins.tif.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1916tangoeggs/icons/Jennings.tif.jpg"><br /><br /><br />(edited to fix broken links)

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Posted By: <b>Denny Walsh</b><p>Does Anyone know if the Egg Cards are made on the same stock as Mello Mint Cards? I'm begging you to tell me.....<br />the day is almost over and I havn't learned my one NEW thing TODAY yet.... <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Life's Grand,<br />Denny Walsh

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Posted By: <b>BcD</b><p>same stock as E-106 with gloss*<br /><br />write me! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />BcD <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Eric</b><p><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k14/crazylocomerk2/1916TangoEggsBuckWeaver.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>They are related to and from the same era as E106 (American Caramel), D303-1 (General Baking), and D303-2 (Mothers).<br /><br />D303-2 Mothers cards are the rarest.