O.K. All Colgans are Horner photos. How about all Fan Craze?

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Posted By: Julie

The Chance, Breshnahan and Flcik are identical. Oddly, the McGinnity doesn't seem to be. I onlt have 3 Colgans left, and only 12 Fan Craze--but it seems to me an awful lot of them are the same. I think the Wallace is the same, and the Young--there're only about 2 photos of him around at all!

Any opinions on others? Or does someone know? The Fan Craze--even if they were ALL printed in 1906 (which by the way they were) are easily 3 years earlier than any of the Colgans.

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Posted By: hankron

No.

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Posted By: Julie

Be more forthcoming. I STILL like Fan Craze better than Colgans. They're BIG PICTURES. And many of them are Excellent ones.



Pip pip! Of course, the card is crystal clear. But tell that to my new scanner...

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Posted By: runscott

although the "spherical" superball cards were pretty cool. As far as "Fan Craze" goes, I never understood why anyone would get excited over a card game. I prefer some of the nicer turn-of-the-century "Old Maid" sets, but I wouldn't see any use in breaking those up to collect individual cards, any more than I would Fan Craze. But to each his/her own.

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Posted By: hankron

I don't know all the player/photographer combinations, but know that some of the images were shot by Benjamin Falk. Falk photographed many of the 1890s Newsboy actor/actress cabinet cards and, in fact, some of the Newsboys have his stamp on them.

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Posted By: Julie

Like I said, the Chance, Breshnahan and Flick ARE Horner photos (I compared my Fan Craze cards with my scans of Colgans), but, like I said, they don't all match--so it's probably like David said: several photographers.

"Old Maid...?" Scott, I have never spoken to ANYONE who knows how to PLAY the Fan Craze game, including those who have the whole set in a box (about 1).