E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Suppose several different products sponsered these issues and each product contained only certain colors.<br /><br />What evidence do we have of this?<br /><br />We know that most Old Puts are red.<br />We know that M131s are all blue.<br />I've seen many Blomes with blue backgrounds.<br /><br />I've also heard from a couple collectors that have "found" sets that are all one color.<br /><br />Have you seen any other evidence of this?<br /><br /><br />Rob

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>Interesting question. I know of one E98 set of a board member that was found with all one color. I also know of another find of about 20 cards that were multiple colors.<br />JimB

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I think there might be some evidence on the first statement you make as Old Puts almost always have a red background (front). I have only seen 2 that weren't and the 15-20 others, that I have seen, have all been red. I think M131's are a whole seperate set, as also noted by Burdick. I am unaware of any correlation with the last statement about Blomes but I have never really kept track of what fronts (color or player) they have....regards

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>Mike Ernst</b><p>My "find" of about 45 E98's back in about 1976-77 from an antique dealer in Wisconsin was of all different colors, including up to three different colors of the same player. I was able to determine no history of the cards prior to that, however.

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>B D</b><p>there was/is an OP blue Mcgraw out there that is pretty nice as in ex+. I am pretty sure it sold about 5 years ago in a big auction<br><br>BcD <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>Leon's blue Old Put Clarke is the only non-red Old Put I have ever seen. I used to own a red OP Clarke and still wait for the day when that stolen card appears on ebay <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14><br />The only one color set I have ever seen is the hobby's best green E98 set owned by a fellow 54er from Philly.<br />As far as the orange E94s go, there are about 14-15 in existence. 2 are owned by a 54er who bought the Lionel Carter collection in Mastro, I believe they are Crawford and Devlin. I own a Devore which originally was owned by Brian Daniels. Brian also used to own 10-11 others including Speaker, Jennings, Lajoie, Evers (I think), Cobb (I think), McGraw (I think) and several commons. I believe Brian sold these through the hobby a couple of years ago. All of Brian's cards were high grade, the two Lionel Carter owned were not. I have never seen a duplication of any of the players in the orange subset so I am assuming all 14-15 are one of a kind. I have never seen an orange Cicotte, it may not exist.

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>robert a</b><p>Bob,<br /><br />I have a Blue Old Put Dooin that's mangled which kind of disproves my own point, but it's still clear that the majority of these cards were red.<br /><br />I'm familiar with the "green monster" set which supports this theory a bit. That might've been an "orignal collection" or one that stemmed back to when the cards were issued.<br /><br />Of course even folks like Lionel Carter were collecting these cards long after they could've been broken from the original groups.<br /><br />Rob

E94/E98 colors
 

Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>Rob- The thing that is interesting about the oranges being found in Carter's collection is that he stopped acquiring cards in the 70's. I wish Brian would post where the oranges he had in his collection originated. It seems like he told me at one time that the cards were purchased together from a single dealer (?)<br />One thing which keeps me from being sold on the color variation theory is that every orange E94 I have seen has the identical shade of orange, not like the varying hues of orange you find in the T206 color variation cards.<br />BcD?