M116 question

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Posted By: leon

Hey Folks,
First of all thanks for the courteous and intelligent responses on the SGC registry questions. The last round of them was very good and I do believe that we are on our way to having multiple collections to view on the SGC Registry board. I hope it is as open ended as I think it should be. I am also going to ask that the sets not be "weighted" so there is no ranking of them. I would love to see more of other folks sets in a non-competitive way. Here is the question though. I picked up another M116 last night on ebay and it was more for the back than the front (although Collins is a nice card anyway). I now have 3 different backs. I know I have, in one of my many reference books, seen a list of how many different backs there are. Does anyone know offhand? Thanks in advance and best regards...ps..I believe this one to be fairly scarce compared to the others...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1987158945&category=31719

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Posted By: leon

Well,
With the underwhelming response received I pulled out my own references for the answers. It only took about 30 minutes to find. I thought it would take longer. All of the backs are printed in blue ink with one exception. Actually there are about 12 exceptions as Series 3 was printed in black and blue and has only the "When you think of baseball, etc..." back. There are subtle differences to some of the fronts of the the Series 3 cards too (there were 24 series in all) but I am not concerned with those for my type set. So the answer to the first question is: There are only 3 different backs to the set...and the first words on the different backs are:

1."When you think of Base Ball" (sic)
2."If you want Base Ball News" (sic)
3."Sporting Life's Base Ball Players" (sic)

. ....regards all

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Posted By: jay behrens

well, just by dumb luck, I own 4 m116s and I have all 4 differnt backs. When I first saw the black ink back, I thought I had a reprint until someone told me that some of the cards did have black ink backs

Jay