The E91 American Caramel Sets...Generic or Name Brand by Brian Parker

[brianp-beme]

To answer Barry's question about why the artists didn't produce accurate depictions on some of the E91B and all of the E91C set...laziness. Heck, it is why my article is posted here...I didn't feel like tracking down all the images of the comparision cards. Also budget issues could have come into play. Artists don't work for free. I imagine American Caramel thought they could get away with putting out inaccurate representations because, hey, these cards were produced for kids and what in the hell do they know anyway?

To me the E91C set is fairly worthless...just get one for your type collection. I would concentrate on the E91A issue and the E91B cards that have the same name designations as the E91A set.

Brian

[birdman42]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

To me the E91C set is fairly worthless...just get one for your type collection.
Brian

Brian, I couldn't agree more.

Jim, can you send me that fairly worthless WAJO? It'll work in my type collection. I'll even pay some toward postage.

Bill

[brianp-beme]

I have mentioned that most of the E91A cards share a facial likeness to the actual subject, which is then attached to a generic body, but 5 years or more ago I believe it was Runscott who shared a full-body pitching photo of Reulbach, either on the net54 site or for crying out loud the old Full Count board, that is exactly the same as pictured on his E91 cards. I didn't save the image (old computer crash go boom), but because of its existence I believe the artists used available photo sources to create these cards. As my article stresses it seems that most of these photos were portraits, but like in the case of Reulbach fuller body shots could have been used on a handful as well. Maybe someone can track down the Reulbach side action shot, or perhaps runscott could come out of the woodworks and help make my point.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

You have to love the Library of Congress site...here is a link to a T204 Breshnahan, Tinker and Plank

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displa.../~ammem_UOFl::

Brian

[Steve D]

Thank you Brian, for all the work and providing the information to us.

I laugh every time I see the E91 Plank, at what looks like a golf ball in his hands...but it is my favorite card in the set

Steve

[toppcat]

It looks like each team had a separate artist. Those Athletics look to be the the best executed and it seems the Cubs are rendered as thinly as possible in the depictions of their torsos and lower bodies. The Giants look a bit more full bodied to my eye. Great article!

[Vintagecatcher]

Brian,

Here is a scan of my M116 Kling with your Kling E91:












Patrick